Re: bin/144214: zfsboot fails on gang block after upgrade to zfs v14

2010-05-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On 27 May 2010 16:13, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: on 27/05/2010 17:40 Doug Rabson said the following: Excellent work - thanks for looking into this. I still think its easier to debug this code in userland using a shim that redirects the zfsboot i/o calls to simple read system

Re: bin/144214: zfsboot fails on gang block after upgrade to zfs v14

2010-05-27 Thread Doug Rabson
On 27 May 2010 09:35, Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote: I think I nailed this problem now. What was additionally needed was the following change: if (!vdev || !vdev-v_read) return (EIO); - if (vdev-v_read(vdev, bp, zio_gb, offset, SPA_GANGBLOCKSIZE)) +

Re: Problems with zfsboot loader if raidz present on any drive

2008-12-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On 9 Dec 2008, at 23:54, Paul Wootton wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pegasus Mc Cleaft Sent: 07 December 2008 12:17 To: Doug Rabson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems with zfsboot loader if raidz

Re: Problems with zfsboot loader if raidz present on any drive

2008-12-07 Thread Doug Rabson
On 7 Dec 2008, at 03:19, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Hello Hackers, Recently and friend and I have been trying to get the new gptzfsboot working on our machines and ran into a interesting problem. Initially I was building the world without the environment variable

Re: build problems with gptzfsboot (AMD64) 8.0-CURRENT

2008-11-24 Thread Doug Rabson
On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:41, Olivier SMEDTS wrote: 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/20 Olivier SMEDTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/20 Pascal Hofstee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:46:31 - Pegasus Mc Cleaft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am having

Re: How TLS is used in Kernel thread

2007-09-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 14:20 -0700, Jin Guojun wrote: By looking through _pthread_create() code and find it uses a magic cookie -- TLS -- created by rtld_allocate_tls(), and passed into kernel by sysarch() via _tcb_set() / _kcb_set(). The information seems to be set by rtld (ld-elf.so.1)

Re: A question about /sys/kern/link_elf.c

2005-05-03 Thread Doug Rabson
On Monday 02 May 2005 13:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a #ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING at line 701,and again a #ifdef SPARSE_MAPPING at line 713.I just can't understand the second one.Does it have any special mean ? thanks . It's just conditional compiling construct...however as you can

Re: EFI network boot loader for ia32?

2005-04-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On 27 Apr 2005, at 20:10, Fred Clift wrote: This might better belong on -questions, this isn't the most technical question, but it is obscure... I've recently been loaned an eval server indirectly from intel. It is an SR-2400. We've been using SR-2300s for a while now and have been doing

Re: The continued remote debugging saga...

2004-09-01 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 18:15, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Rob Deker wrote this message on Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:38 -0400: So, after a lot of work and help from folks here, I've gotten remote gdb functioning (thanks again to those who helped. In the end there was a bad cable in the mix

Re: Getting MAC address?

2004-06-26 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 26 June 2004 10:15, Ivan Voras wrote: Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: IV How to get the MAC address for an (ethernet) interface? The linux code IV does this: IV retval = ioctl(thisint-sockInt, SIOCGIFHWADDR, ifr); IV IV After some

Re: quiet ATX mid-Towers

2004-06-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Friday 18 June 2004 15:39, zera holladay wrote: Under a kind suggestion, I am re-submitting this e-mail with a different subject. The old message was: Hello, I am looking for a very quiet ATX mid-tower and I was wondering if anybody has a suggestion or recommendation. My hard disks

Re: FreeBSD and Debugging?

2004-04-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Saturday 10 April 2004 06:17, Lev Walkin wrote: Brandon Erhart wrote: For Linux, I've seen valgrind (probably one of the best) as well as several others. In the commercial arena, Rational's PURIFY and Parasoft's INSURE++ work on every OS *but* BSD. Any particular reason for this?

Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-11 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 00:05, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:01:13PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:35 PM + 1/10/04, Andrew Boothman wrote: Peter Schuller wrote: Most of the noteworthy features of subversion are listed on the project front page:

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 20:19, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote: [1] has core@ considered subversion (devel/subversion)? Everyone has their eyes wide open looking for a revision control alternative, but last time it was discussed in detail (a few months

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 18:05, Munish Chopra wrote: On 2004-01-08 17:29 +, Doug Rabson wrote: [...] The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: 1. A replacement for cvsup. Probably quite doable using svnadmin dump and load. 2. Support

Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal

2002-11-14 Thread Doug Rabson
required for /[s]bin need to move to / and compat symlinks created from /usr. A suitable crunchgen'ed binary for /recover would be useful too. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Interesting sysctl variables in Mac OS X with hw info

2002-03-14 Thread Doug Rabson
or another. I can get this too. Also sizes of various levels of TLB too for fun... -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: to users of threads (GDB support)

2002-02-12 Thread Doug Rabson
paperwork on file right now (I did once a long time ago but that was several companies ago...) I'm quite willing to relinquish all ownership that I may have to this code. If it helps, I can claim that David O'Brien wrote it all :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-09 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :That brings back memories. We wrote our own firmware for the 1541 since :the commodore DOS was so slow. I forget what transfer rate we managed but :it was much better than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. : :-- :Doug Rabson

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
than the standard code. Bit of a sod to debug though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Linus Torvalds and urgent message about your future!

2001-12-07 Thread Doug Rabson
CALL to 1-800-311-1736 ROFLMAO. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Doug Rabson
. This doesn't appear to fix the 64bit alignment problems which we had while trying to use the code on ia64. Any news on when/whether Intel will accept our 64bit patches? -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348

RE: ACPI CA updated

2001-10-31 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Grover, Andrew wrote: From: Doug Rabson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] This doesn't appear to fix the 64bit alignment problems which we had while trying to use the code on ia64. Any news on when/whether Intel will accept our 64bit patches? Our next release

Re: New rc.d init script roadmap

2001-10-19 Thread Doug Rabson
are passed in registers are all promoted to 64bits. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Newbus

2001-08-09 Thread Doug Rabson
definitions are scattered around the tree - the core interfaces DEVICE and BUS are in kern/device_if.m and kern/bus_if.m respectively. The 5.x version of newbus is based on the kobj system with api in sys/kobj.h and implementation in kern/subr_kobj.c. -- Doug Rabson

Re: processes private data

2001-06-29 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Nicolas Souchu wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:48:21PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Nicolas Souchu wrote: Hi folks, I have a char driver that must be opened by more than one process. The minor index is not sufficient

Re: libwi and KWireless

2001-06-25 Thread Doug Rabson
4.3-stable with autoconf-2.13_1. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: newbussifying drivers

2001-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
using different macros with hard-coded (#defined) port addresses. So, how do you CORRECTLY use the newbus calls to probe these ports? I am not running -current, so i do not have 'hints'. As Doug Rabson said, write an 'identify' routine. Look at the ep driver for an example. And my artile

Re: newbussifying drivers

2001-06-07 Thread Doug Rabson
be autodetected. Relying on the user to wire down hints is silly. Probably they should provide an identify method to look for and create the non-PnP devices. The actual probe method should be dumb and just use the resources given to it (IMHO). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD/powerpc work to date

2001-05-22 Thread Doug Rabson
converting the rest of the file. How far does the beast get when booting? -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: kobj, makedevops.pl etc.

2001-01-09 Thread Doug Rabson
the driver, using makeobjops.pl instead of makedevops.pl. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2001-01-08 Thread Doug Rabson
. This is an issue in current as well. The patch looks good to me. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director, Qube Software Ltd. Phone: +44 20 7431 9995 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-05 Thread Doug Rabson
"sharelibrary" command to read the symbols of all loaded KLDs. You only need to ensure that the exact same pathname works for both loading the KLD on the target machine and for loading the symbols on the machine running GDB. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Doug Rabson
on some archs atomic_t can be quite small, we'd have to watch for overflow, perhaps a spinlock is a better idea however only if the next thing I mention here is realized: You can use atomic_add_*() to do safe arithmetic on memory locations. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Doug Rabson
had to put some extra cooling on the motherboard chipset though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: I will be in Japan and Korea from June 7th through June 15th

2000-06-02 Thread Doug Rabson
- I've already booked a flight to San Diego on the 17th. Meeting *at* Usenix would be good though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: subr_bus.c | kldload | kldunload

2000-05-30 Thread Doug Rabson
effects and that preferably is an ISA device. If no one responds to this request I will repost with actual code and a laundry list of observed symptoms. Warner Losh might be able to help you out here. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-29 Thread Doug Rabson
are our LINUX and FreeBSD drivers) using memory-mapped registers. Using normal C pointers to memory-mapped registers is not portable. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: S5933 PCI Adapter..??

2000-05-27 Thread Doug Rabson
ses to map the pci space. however for that i need the physical map...what data structure holds that?? Can you check your BIOS and make sure it does *not* think you have a Plug-n-Play OS. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd.

Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed

2000-05-27 Thread Doug Rabson
the kernel with a build-time include. Very humorous indeed. Is this a temporary condition as was the deboggle in v3.0? Whatever. any docs on this junk? RTFM. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To U

Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource

2000-05-20 Thread Doug Rabson
, or if this is a bug. If so, I'm going to write patches. There is really no need. The mcclock driver can't be detached since its required for normal system functioning (its the main clock source). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd

Re: further question to bus_alloc_resource

2000-05-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There is really no need. The mcclock driver can't be detached since its required for normal system functioning (its the main clock source). OK. I agree. It was just the first driver I got, so far

Re: What do people think of maybe using the sourceforge software?

2000-05-09 Thread Doug Rabson
I uploaded a patch containing a large uuencoded file. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Netfinity 5600 patches

2000-05-09 Thread Doug Rabson
to chop it out soon since I want to be able to attach an AGP driver to some of those devices. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
, and they're both peform very well in our somewhat hostile SASOS conditions. So you have custom PALcode for Alpha on SASOS? We have been able to use OSF1 PALcode up to now which makes life a lot easier for supporting new hardware. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
misunderstood what I was asking and assumed I wanted the source code to their windows driver. My reply explaining that I really just wanted documentation went unanswered. Sigh. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
specs for this thing. Besides I swapped the card with a colleague for one which works... -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Detecting PnP devices upon module load

2000-02-12 Thread Doug Rabson
fix this properly after 4.0 if Matt Dodd doesn't beat me to it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

RE: elf

2000-02-04 Thread Doug Rabson
strip the program. You can also use this to disassemble object files as well, so you could just 'objdump -d /usr/lib/crt0.o'. My favourite is 'objdump -dS' to include source code. This obviously requires debugging information in the disassembled thing. -- Doug Rabson

Re: how to allocate an alined address for a device?

2000-01-29 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Rabson writes: : I'm uneasy about using the flags for this since I'm vaguely reserving the : upper 16 bits of flags for bus-specific purposes (although I haven't : formalised this). : : For allocating aligned

Re: how to allocate an alined address for a device?

2000-01-28 Thread Doug Rabson
This also implies changing the method BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE() or adding BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE_ALIGNED(). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Use of newbus in sys/pci/pci.c

2000-01-16 Thread Doug Rabson
but its certainly dubious. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Question about GLIDE...

1999-12-23 Thread Doug Rabson
find patches at: http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/Glide-V2-2.53.diff http://www.freebsd.org/~dfr/Glide-V2-3.01.diff -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Question about GLIDE...

1999-12-23 Thread Doug Rabson
ng to work with the folks at glide.sourceforge.net next year to get the FreeBSD bits integrated with their source base. In the mean time, I'm looking for someone to generate a port or two for glide.. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd.

Re: Question about GLIDE...

1999-12-23 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Theo van Klaveren wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: Thats right. Another gotcha with the Glide code is that it uses the Linux convention for outx(), i.e. outb(val, port) where we use outb(port, val

Re: Question about GLIDE...u

1999-12-23 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: +[ Doug Rabson ]- | On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Theo van Klaveren wrote: | | I already ported the voodoo2 sources for Glide 2.x and Glide 3.x. You can | find patches at: | | http

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-21 Thread Doug Rabson
it and bought a Netgear. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: aout gdb in 3.x

1999-12-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 14:51:59 +, Doug Rabson wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: How does one compile a version of GDB that can read a.out files? I know there is a way of doing it but I have totoally failed to work

Re: aout gdb in 3.x

1999-12-18 Thread Doug Rabson
: CFLAGS += -DFREEBSD_ELF to set FREEBSD_AOUT instead. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Dynamic sysctls (Re: Per CPU timekeeping for SMP)

1999-12-18 Thread Doug Rabson
files other than the core sysctl code itself. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Glide source available

1999-12-07 Thread Doug Rabson
of ports, I would be grateful. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: question on lkm / kld in 3.3-RELEASE or later

1999-12-03 Thread Doug Rabson
hat and we have provided hooks for registering filesystems, devices, syscalls, etc. To do something else, just use a SYSINIT to call a custom initialisation function of your own. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 18

Re: Ok, that's it, enough is enough! (rpc.lockd)

1999-11-30 Thread Doug Rabson
recently and came to the same conclusion. To do it right will be quite a bit of work and would include a decent kernel side implementation of rpc and gssapi. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: Ok, that's it, enough is enough! (rpc.lockd)

1999-11-30 Thread Doug Rabson
ot with my current workload :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ANNOUNCE: VMware 1.1 for Linux on the FreeBSD

1999-11-27 Thread Doug Rabson
available at: http://www.vmware.com Vladimir N. Silyaev Well done indeed! This is excellent work! -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Set the baud rate on remote debugging

1999-11-17 Thread Doug Rabson
east until somebody fixes the buffering in the UARTs. I've always used 57600 and it seems to work fine... -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Limitations in FreeBSD

1999-11-09 Thread Doug Rabson
on hardware limits) will happen on the 4100. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ARM support

1999-11-09 Thread Doug Rabson
ing? If so, that is certainly the best environment for kernel porting. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Using non-PIC code in shared libraries?

1999-11-09 Thread Doug Rabson
code. True for x86. For alpha, all code is PIC but the extra registers available reduce the overhead considerably. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ARM support

1999-11-07 Thread Doug Rabson
, although its a bit dated (the last ARM machine I owned was an ARM3). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-29 Thread Doug Rabson
gs, thanks. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

1999-10-29 Thread Doug Rabson
. This is true in NetBSD (at least in version 1.60 of locore.s) as well. The whole idea of ASTs and SWIs is an awful hangover from the VAX; there must be a better way. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: ISA Plug 'n Play support / kernel -c bug / IETF

1999-10-15 Thread Doug Rabson
we should have enough drivers so that you can have a kernel config with *no* custom settings at all and it will detect all your hardware magically. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe

Re: Symbols and klds

1999-10-13 Thread Doug Rabson
module list directly. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-09-29 Thread Doug Rabson
cases. And it generates SIGBUS for unaligned accesses (when traps for that are enabled). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-17 Thread Doug Rabson
consumption. If a later processor revision needs different handling for low-level issues, it will use a different PALcode but will generally present the same interface to the kernel. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181

Re: TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-17 Thread Doug Rabson
consumption. If a later processor revision needs different handling for low-level issues, it will use a different PALcode but will generally present the same interface to the kernel. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181

Re: does gdb on 3.3RC have thread support? (fwd)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug Rabson
very good thread debugging support on MSVC6.0. I think I would rather just spend a weekend adding support to GDB. Search the mailing list archives. Doug Rabson had already done most of the work to make FreeBSDs gdb thread-aware. It hasn't been committed, but diffs were submitted to one

Re: NFS authentication

1999-09-14 Thread Doug Rabson
ENEEDAUTH from the nfssvc() call and nfsd does the authentication, passing the results back via nfssvc(). I don't think this code is actually used by anyone so there is a strong possibility that it doesn't work at all. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear

Re: NFS authentication

1999-09-14 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I am wondering where the NFS authentication is done in FreeBSD. Is it done by the NFS daemon mountd (or other daemon) or within the kernel? Can

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
resource (always zero for isa but normally nonzero for pci). In this case, the GET/SET_RESOURCE methods probably won't be needed since they are just used for the multiport kluge. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
and attach routines need to be corrected to not be ISA specific. I think I will tackle that soon. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
resource (always zero for isa but normally nonzero for pci). In this case, the GET/SET_RESOURCE methods probably won't be needed since they are just used for the multiport kluge. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Doug Rabson
now. Its probe and attach routines need to be corrected to not be ISA specific. I think I will tackle that soon. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: gdb and source forking

1999-09-04 Thread Doug Rabson
was based on a snapshot of 2.9.2). The linux folks often just bundle patches with the gdb sources which is not much different from us importing FSF sources into our CVS tree. We can generate diffs from the virgin FSF sources very easily. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL

Re: gdb and source forking

1999-09-04 Thread Doug Rabson
was based on a snapshot of 2.9.2). The linux folks often just bundle patches with the gdb sources which is not much different from us importing FSF sources into our CVS tree. We can generate diffs from the virgin FSF sources very easily. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d

Re: UHCI / OHCI controller with no interrupt configured

1999-09-04 Thread Doug Rabson
a PCI card has been configured? The value 255 for intline represents not configured or no interrupt. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org

Re: gdb and source forking

1999-09-03 Thread Doug Rabson
be invidually submitted to FSF. Assigning all the changes to FSF is about 10x the effort and I don't have much enthusiasm for it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: gdb and source forking

1999-09-03 Thread Doug Rabson
be invidually submitted to FSF. Assigning all the changes to FSF is about 10x the effort and I don't have much enthusiasm for it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: KAME IPv6 and freebsd

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
to have a lot of kernel-only trees around for my work and the more self-contained they are the better. Moving softupdates into sys/crypto was a good thing (IMHO). -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
out change to the system. Would the people who are involved with the current (more limited) proposed change like to review this and possibly use it instead. I don't want to lose anyones work here if it could be useful. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear S

Re: More than 32 signals. Thought?

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
; Please be careful with your datatypes when formulating this. If you are going to pack 32 signals into one field, make it u_int32_t, not int or long. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe

Re: KAME IPv6 and freebsd

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
a lot of kernel-only trees around for my work and the more self-contained they are the better. Moving softupdates into sys/crypto was a good thing (IMHO). -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
to write programs in the large model. Although I may be confusing something. I sure hope so. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: readdir() broken?

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
for GNU fileutils? If so, your patch should be directed to the port maintainer. I suggest that you also forward the patch to the GNU fileutils maintainers. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: [mount.c]: Option user-patch

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
out change to the system. Would the people who are involved with the current (more limited) proposed change like to review this and possibly use it instead. I don't want to lose anyones work here if it could be useful. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear

Re: More than 32 signals. Thought?

1999-08-31 Thread Doug Rabson
; Please be careful with your datatypes when formulating this. If you are going to pack 32 signals into one field, make it u_int32_t, not int or long. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037

Re: Async NFS exports?

1999-08-22 Thread Doug Rabson
. The COMMIT rpc's aren't being issued async. You need to track the return value of the commit so that you can detect server reboots and sync-write the data again. If you change to async, make sure that you still keep this part - its essential to the protocol. -- Doug Rabson

Re: Async NFS exports?

1999-08-22 Thread Doug Rabson
on the client. The COMMIT rpc's aren't being issued async. You need to track the return value of the commit so that you can detect server reboots and sync-write the data again. If you change to async, make sure that you still keep this part - its essential to the protocol. -- Doug Rabson

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