Many of the ideas on that page are stale. I believe that the most
promising approach would be to figure out what area of the system
you're most interested in, e.g. networking, file systems, virtual
memory, scheduling etc., make an honest appraisal of your development
abilities (the rate at which
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Charlie Martin crmar...@sgi.com wrote:
We're having a crash in some internal code running on FreeBSD 7.2
(specifically 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE and yeah, I know it's
quite a bit behind) in which after 18-30 hours of running load tests, the
code
Try this:
Index: sys/net/flowtable.c
===
--- sys/net/flowtable.c (revision 196382)
+++ sys/net/flowtable.c (working copy)
@@ -688,6 +688,12 @@
struct rtentry *rt = ro-ro_rt;
struct ifnet *ifp =
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:27 PM, David N david...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I know this might sound like a newbie question.
I'm trying to debug a Lockup on 7.2-RELEASE. I've compiled DDB and
KDB into the kernel and make installkernel. (Can this be called a
deadlock?)
The machine still response
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Mark Saad ms...@datapipe.com wrote:
Hello List
Worked on breaking ZFS we came across a interesting question;
What is the lowest tested ZFS ARC Cache size ?
I haven't tested it with just over 64MB, but the code indicates that
that is the lowest you should
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Oliver Pinter oliver.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Is the FreeBSD's FS management so slow?
http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html
Or so big is the difference between the two cpu scheduler?
http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html
We would need more information
man pciconf(8) - it lets you set config space bits
-Kip
2009/4/14 Zahemszky Gábor ga...@zahemszky.hu:
Hi!
I'v found (well, mav@ found it) on a wiki page (*) a trick to use some
TI sdhci cards. They use the setpci command, to set some bits in the HW.
Are there any tool under FreeBSD to do
in HEAD, see intr_event_handle in sys/kern/kern_intr.c
Cheers,
Kip
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Alexej Sokolov
bsd.qu...@googlemail.com wrote:
hello,
from man:
int
bus_setup_intr(device_t dev, struct resource *r, int flags,
driver_filter_t filter, driver_intr_t ithread,
The code in 7.0 is actually locked quite differently. Could you please
try and reproduce on 7.0 and RELENG_7?
Thanks,
Kip
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Jerry Toung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello List,
I can realiably reproduce this crash. We have a deamon that accept several
connections
I've been getting a lot of recurring questions about the status of Xen
support in FreeBSD and Xen configuration issues - the answers to which
are changing frequently enough that simply adding a FAQ wouldn't make
sense. I expect that initially the mailing list will be the
Dailykip, consisting of
Hi Peter,
There really isn't any magic to bringing up a port. You compile it,
install it, and then run it until it breaks. Once it breaks you spend
a lot of time instrumenting the code to track down what went wrong.
Then, depending on the amount of technical insight you have in to the
issue, you
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Sevan / Venture37
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't find anything that suggests NetBSD runs on sun4v. Their sparc64
port only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v.
OpenBSD/sparc64 supports the sun4v architecture has done for a while.
Well, let's see what architecture the upcoming Rock CPUs are;
judging their feature list they appear to be a continuation of
the Fujitsu sun4u line rather than a successor of UST1/2 :)
That is not what I've heard.
-Kip
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Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the
wiki for general information:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is
production-ready. There are many known limitations. If you would like
to take it for a test drive and
p
Hi Kip,
Thanks very much for the effort here. I'm looking forward to trying it
out and providing feedback.
I'm not really familiar with Xen, but perhaps enough to ask this
question: Does this mean that Amazon EC2 will be able to boot FreeBSD
instances?
The last time I spoke with them
I apologise for cross-posting.
I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and
developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v
is a very interesting platform for developers doing SMP work, I simply
do not have the time or energy to maintain it. If someone
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Eric Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Kip,
Xen support will be MFC'd when it proves to be sufficiently stable for
some uses. It probably won't make the freeze for 7.1. Xen 3.2 is the
initial target.
Dom0/DomU or
Nothing jumps out at me, can you send the output of the build failure?
-Kip
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Martes Wigglesworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having a hard time compiling a new kernel when I remove the
wireless aspects of the config file. I have removed all options/devices
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/03/2008, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another avenue to consider is the Linux KVM virtualization technology,
which
is seeing a high level of interest in the Linux community and sounds
increasingly
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been battling with a bug related to mlock and COW pages. Since I'm
basically clueless when it comes to the VM subsystem, I was hoping someone
with more clue can look at my fix and let me know if I'm doing the right
It can easily be done, there is no API for it in CVS.
-Kip
On 1/5/08, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Is there a notion of binding interrupt handlers to specific CPUs in
FreeBSD? Is there a way to find out that mapping from the userland, for
debugging purposes?
--
Sent
http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=124874
HTH
On Jan 5, 2008 4:55 PM, Ray Mihm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008 12:16 PM, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It can easily be done, there is no API for it in CVS.
I have a situation where this is needed. I would appreciate
Isn't it everything except x86?
-Kip
On Dec 29, 2007 12:11 AM, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Ivan Voras wrote:
Hi,
Which of the architectures FreeBSD supports (if any) have strict memory
alignment requirements? (in the sense that accessing a 32-bit integer
not
On Dec 17, 2007 1:25 PM, James Mansion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kip Macy wrote:
he's just plain misinforme
Until we know what he is referring to we can't actually say that.
-Kip
OK he said I could post from our private email so here goes. There were
bits in and around relating
Check ports 'cpuid' -
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel; CPUID level 10
Intel-specific functions:
Version 06f6:
Type 0 - Original OEM
Family 6 - Pentium Pro
Model 15 -
Extended model 0
Stepping 6
Reserved 0
Odds are you have a post-P4 Intel processor.
-Kip
On Dec 17, 2007 7:47 PM, binto [EMAIL
Actually, until recently it was broken on pipes. We've never received
any PRs to that effect so there is no way of knowing. You'll have
better luck asking the author himself.
-Kip
On 12/15/07, James Mansion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any idea what the author of libev is on about here (from
It looks like a decent library, but these comments seem unfortunate.
Does anyone know what the author is concerned about?
he's just plain misinformed
Until we know what he is referring to we can't actually say that.
-Kip
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I just want to add my 2 cents, that my recent experience with FreeBSD MP
has been extremely positive. I tend to use highly CPU bound MP programs,
typically lots and lots of floating point operations. It used to be that
Linux beat FreeBSD hands down - now FreeBSD seems to have a slight
On Nov 16, 2007 1:11 AM, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 16, 2007 10:40 AM, Fred Bertram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm a cs student from Australia.
Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online software
community in some way. I enjoy C
On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, Remko Lodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yuri wrote:
I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on
64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality.
Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done?
On 11/6/07, Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:07:21 +0200, Paul Schenkeveld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
For a large project involving virtual servers under Xen I've been asked
to advice on using BSD for some services instead of Linux.
In the Q2/2007
On 10/2/07, Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071002 20:02] wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071002 19:46] wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred
On 10/2/07, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071002 19:46] wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here.
This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding
a
For core files and checkpoints that isn't possible.
-Kip
On 4/27/07, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 27 April 2007 02:43:16 am Marc Lörner wrote:
On Thursday 26 April 2007 19:49, John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 26 April 2007 08:08:19 am Marc Lörner wrote:
Hello,
I
Rink has made some progress. I'm cc'ing him.
-Kip
On 4/2/07, Jaye Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fsmware page is significantly dated, and I just am
not sure what's going on.
I was just curious if there was a better or updated status
available.
Thanks for your time.
On 3/16/07, Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16.03.2007, at 16:59, John Nielsen wrote:
A truly standalone iSCSI client will most likely want to use a TOE
card, which
to the OS looks like any other SCSI adapter. (I'm unsure which if
any such
cards are currently supported in FreeBSD,
On 3/10/07, Maslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would be helpful to know why you need this support as well
I just wanted to know the idea behind not having FP in kernel-space.
Saving and restoring FPU registers adds overhead to thread context
switching and there has never been a legitimate
umtx
On 3/9/07, Peter Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does FreeBSD have anything similar to Futexes for
Linux.
Thanks,
Peter
Looking for earth-friendly autos?
Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo!
PROTECTED] wrote:
Kip Macy wrote:
umtx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:man -k umtx
umtx: nothing appropriate
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
also if you use umtx I think you limit yourself to libthr.
On 3/9/07, Peter Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does FreeBSD have anything similar to Futexes for
Linux.
Thanks,
Peter
you may be the only person well acquainted with
the KPI. Thanks.
-Kip
Kip Macy wrote:
umtx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:man -k umtx
umtx: nothing appropriate
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
also if you use umtx I think you limit yourself to libthr.
On 3/9/07, Peter Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does
It looks like it may be loading an out of sync kernel module. Cleaning
out /boot/modules might help.
-Kip
On 2/26/07, Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Well,
My system does boot off of disc 1 of the FreeBSD 6.2 CD. However,
even
It looks as if you've hit a device driver that is trying to print out
a null string. The message you've given doesn't provide any more
information than that. If you install a snapshot kernel it will
probably have ddb compiled in which will allow you to at least get a
backtrace. I'm sorry you're
The fix is trivial from just inspecting the loader change. Someone
just has to have the wherewithal to make it and test it.
-Kip
On 2/23/07, KillFill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe a port could be made from the NetBSD fixes
:-)
--
Well thats true and easy to find. My question on this FreeBSD list was
related to FreeBSD thou.
Can anyone on hackers shed some light on this?
/Chris
FreeBSD HEAD worked on Xen in the 3.0.2 time frame. If someone is able
to be self-sufficient in maintaining Xen support in FreeBSD I'll
A couple of things.
- The newer rt2661.c driver has not been MFC'd to 6.2. That is most
likely why your card is not working.
- 'ifconfig' when run as root will load the module for a network
driver provided it is a) in the path and b) name if_interface
name.ko
-Kip
Trigonometry is seldom done with fixed point, which is the only way to
do it in the kernel (using the FPU is a no-no). I would write a perl
script to generate a lookup table for those functions - paste it into
a header and use that. HTH.
-Kip
On 2/11/07, Eugene M. Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
portupgrade -aPP
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:
* Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20070207 01:05]:
If you let us know what your goals are, we might be able to help you
get there.
I know what I'd like: a utility in the base system for binary upgrading
of packages. More
Do you have SysV IPC support in your kernel?
-Kip
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, girish r wrote:
Hello folks,
I am trying to use sem_open(3) but gcc complains that
O_CREAT and O_EXCL is undeclared. According to the man
page only semaphore.h needs to be included. But
The bug you're hitting there is a bad pointer reference in
devfs_populate_loop - you shouldn't be taking a page fault there. I hope
that someone who knows more about devfs will take a look.
-Kip
On 1/3/07, Eugene Grosbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I try to find bugs in 6.2-PRERELEASE by
Qemu / vmware is probably the best way to go at the moment.
On 12/2/06, Vishal Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recently moved over from Linux to FreeBSD and would like to if there
is something similar to UML (User Mode Linux) for doing kernel development
for FreeBSD. Reading different
si_addr doesn't contain the faulting pc, it contains the address that
So either the comment is wrong, or that is a technically incorrect
kludge. However, given that a number of the other fields are not
filled out at all, the real objective should be to keep applications
working.
---
From kern_umtx.c:
static int
_do_lock(struct thread *td, struct umtx *umtx, long id, int timo)
{
struct umtx_q *uq;
intptr_t owner;
intptr_t old;
int error = 0;
uq = td-td_umtxq;
/*
* Care must be exercised when dealing with umtx structure. It
Looking at siginfo it isn't clear that there is a right way to
provide SIGSEGV, eva, and the error code.
_fault._trapno should contain the machine's error code and si_signo
should contain SIGSEGV, and si_addr contains the faulting pc. Maybe
one could abuse si_code to contain eva. Sorry for
Thanks for your input.
The relative merits of the different threading libraries is currently
under discussion. Could you also try it with libthr (it may not work
at all), I'd like to hear what happens. Thanks.
-Kip
On 7/22/06, Michael Nottebrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear -hackers and
running FreeBSD on Xen with several
threaded apps.
-Kip
On 7/22/06, Michael Nottebrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday, 22. July 2006 21:20, Kip Macy wrote:
Thanks for your input.
The relative merits of the different threading libraries is currently
under
I asked the person who wrote vtxassist (only SVM supports paged real
mode) - he thinks that it broke when support for big real mode was
added. He did not seem particularly inclined to fix it. It may be that
Xen's VT-x support is considered less interesting to his organization
now that VMware is
They have quite different ptrace interfaces, the binaries will have
different elf brands, etc. Making a single GDB work on both would
require a great deal of FreeBSD specific surgery on GDB.
-Kip
On 7/9/06, Divacky Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
is it able to somehow make gdb be able to
Producing a driver for a GPU card, especially one that possibly converts from
GL-foo to foo appropriate to program and feed an ASIC on a video card, is
quite different matter entirely.
I'm all for open source drivers, and would also encourage NVIDIA to continue
to reconsider their closed source
FreeBSD's strategy for doing page coloring makes contiguous memory
allocation much past boot quite difficult. This will change when
generalized superpage support is brought in (I hope in the near
future).
-Kip
On 6/30/06, Hans Petter Selasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I sometimes see that
WOW THATS GREAT DOUG! \0/ - it didn't work for me.
-Kip
On 6/30/06, Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kip Macy writes:
| IIRC lack of per instance cdevs also limits Freebsd to one vmware instance.
Really? Don't tell my vmware multiple instances! I used to run 10 on
one FreeBSD host
IIRC lack of per instance cdevs also limits Freebsd to one vmware instance.
-Kip
On 6/29/06, Oleksandr Tymoshenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christian Zander wrote:
Hi all,
# Task:implement mechanism to allow character drivers to
maintain per-open instance
I personally prefer the notion of layering the normal scheduler on top
of a simple fair-share scheduler. This would not add any overhead for
the non-jailed case. Complicating the process scheduler poses
maintenance, scalability, and general performance problems.
-Kip
On 6/11/06, Peter
Take a look at vm_forkproc in vm_glue.c
-Kip
On 6/8/06, Alexander Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Roman (and I) need someone who is able to explain fork() and VM stuff.
The problem is that the linux clone() syscall is supposed to do COW of
the stack in some cases (if the child_stack
Um that is what intr is for - and it won't cause silent data loss.
-Kip
On 5/19/06, Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Steven Hartland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyway the big question is how can I change all our NFS
mounts so that failed mounts dont prevent the machines
booting to
The implementation is 7 years old, not used by default, and was
intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say.
-Kip
On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello guys,
in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and
particulary
-CURRENT runs on 3.0 as a domU. There is partial dom0 support. The
changes have not gone back into the mainline because xenbus is
extremely difficult to integrate cleanly. You can check on the state
of the xen3 branch in perforce.
-Kip
On 3/2/06, Ashok Shrestha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The curious can track its status (known bugs, feature plans, release plans,
etc.) at:
http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/STATUS
It is in perforce under //depot/projects/xen3
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On Fri, 6 May 2005, David Parfitt wrote:
Hi -
I have been trying to write my own UFS-like filesystem
implementation for fun. I had read somewhere that UFS was developed in
user space (correct me if I'm wrong on that one) and then moved over
to kernel-space. I was wondering if there are
So basically what I want to do now is mount the freeBSD image in a
loopback and modify the boot.conf file directly. Anyone knows how to
do this under linux (2.6 if relevant) ? BSD seems to have a weird
way of organizing the disk. Which file system shoud I support ?
I would just do it on
Repost. Outlook posts a different e-mail address from the one I subscribed with.
In all fairness I'd like to say that Nate put me in touch with someone to
commit the work. At about the same time I discovered a rather annoying bug
(since fixed), and I haven't followed back up.
For those
Ok, not really annoying, Manuel Bouyer is working on domain0 support for
NetBSD, so I won't have to install some linux on the box ;)
So I've heard. I haven't tried it out yet.
As my girlfriend would like me to keep the bare minimum number of
machines here, Xen is the way to run Net/Free/DFly
I've promised Nate to port the functionality to FreeBSD. I'm busy doing some
things with the FreeBSD port to Xen at the moment.
Checkpointing a process is intrinsically messy for reasons beyond the obvious
statefulness of TCP connections. Process state, particularly with regard to
devices, is
arguments in the reverse direction i.e.
better/easier/efficient/reliable in a physical machine than a VMM? Or do
you now believe since this feature was implemented over a year ago, that a
VMM is the way to go?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Kip Macy wrote:
I've promised Nate to port
Hardware-based iSCSI HBAs solve this by having their own memory and
TCP stack separate from the OS. Software-only iSCSI initiators such
as linux-iscsi usually just hope it doesn't happen, and that's why I
don't usually recommend software-only iSCSI initiators to anyone.
How is that any
The heuristics vary from platform to platform - what does objdump -d
show?
-Kip
Well, I was hoping someone would have already seen this before,
but I guess I will need to do some more checking if I'm going
to get a better idea of what is going on. I'll put it on my
list
0
-Kip
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Claudio Martella wrote:
Hi, i'm writing a driver, and noticed the noread() nopoll() etc
general-use functions for struct cdevsw are no longer present in 5.x. What
can i use in 5.x?
TIA
--
Barring any BIOS issues a standard ia32 kernel will boot and run happily on an
AMD64 processor.
-Kip
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Mark wrote:
- Original Message -
From: John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
I wonder if the same approach relating to memory allocation and free
checking via static analysis could be applied to locking and unlocking of
locks? I.e.:
Yes. See Dawson's papers. That is one of the examples given. Use after free is
one of the stock checkers. I don't think that there is
Dawson is the man.
http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because I have been
standing in the footprints of giants. -- from Usenet
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Xin LI wrote:
Hello,
The tool is
There is also a problem in that the dirty work, even if done in a
way that demonstrates that the person has skills, is not always
recognised as important. The recognition has to come from within
that part of the developer community that has commit bits, because
you need someone with a commit
This isn't a game Kris. I'm sorry if it hurts your feelings. Core always
supports its own. Take a look at the history of SMP locking, the sudden
change of ownership when the foundation came into money, the ensuing
letter to core, and then the complete inaction.
Those allegations against the core
I, and I think other members of FreeBSD, would appreciate it if
the members of DragonflyBSD would adhere to this peace-keeping
rule as well.
Thank you for providing sound advice Poul in a public forum.
-Kip
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[EMAIL
Puzzling.. to say the least..
I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings.
Please allow this thread to die, and me to move on to other things.
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To unsubscribe, send any
I for one am very glad you're not a member of the FreeBSD community.
And given that you've found a place with DragonFly, there's little
chance that you become part of FreeBSD community in the future. For
As stated previously, I'm not, nor have I ever been, a member of
DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD,
You seem to have mistaken [EMAIL PROTECTED] for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you Poul for taking the time to correct me. Although checkpointing
was a specifically requested feature for FreeBSD, it was, given the
circumstances, an unforgivable error for me to announce it on a FreeBSD
list. The module
At BSDCon '03 it was mentioned that a process checkpoint / restore
facility would be a useful addition to FreeBSD. This post is to
announce that Matt and I have added such a facility to DragonFly BSD.
It is noteworthy for -hackers as anyone who is interested could still
port it with relative
The impacted files are in the directories sys/checkpt and usr.bin/checkpt
as well as sys/kern/imgact_elf.c and sys/kern/kern_fp.c.
-Kip
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Can you get a backtrace? Not knowing anything at this point,
bumping up the number of mbuf clusters *might* help.
-Kip
FYI: I'm not representing NetApp in any official capacity on this,
I just happen to have a vested interest in both OnTap and FreeBSD.
Maybe, but they also support a lot of MMU-less architectures, so it may
have made things simpler for them to not depend on MMU. I wonder if NUMA
had any bearing on that as well...
No. The initial design of their VM greatly preceded NUMA and uCLinux. It
actually makes the system less portable
UVM was the VM system that replaced the old Mach style VM in NetBSD and (I
believe) OpenBSD. FreeBSD has already cleaned up a lot of the problems that
UVM addresses. However, there are still some things that could be done to
make map passing easier, which I believe would make zero-copy support
When I do a config -p configuration file
then a make depend; make kernel - I get
linking kernel
mcount.o: In function `mcount':
mcount.o(.text+0xa): undefined reference to `_gmonparam'
mcount.o(.text+0x10): undefined reference to `_gmonparam'
mcount.o(.text+0x40): undefined reference to `user'
Usually if your looking at raw packets you want to use BPF.
-Kip
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote:
Hey folks,
I wrote my piece of code to play with, and it uses raw sockets to send
TCP packets. It sends packets okay, everything tested with a sniffer,
The filers here are all debugged through terminal servers using
gdb on the client and a gdb stub on the server. So if it doesn't
work it is likely due to your setup or a bug in FreeBSD's gdb stub.
-Kip
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Brooks Davis wrote:
Does anyone
Citi has an OpenBSD NFSv4 client implementation. Is anyone working on porting
that to FreeBSD? From a cursory glance it appears to rely heavily on the
existing NFS infrastructure, how far have FreeBSD and OpenBSD developed away
from the 4.4 implementation?
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ANother case of the obscure beyond belief
message:
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
I would assume it means that 0x is the bitmap of probed irqs and that
irq3 0x10 configured for sio1 is not in that bitmap.
isa/sio.c:
/*
* Turn off all
While we're on the topic of vmapbuf:
I have a kernel module that maps two 64k chunks of user memory into the kernel
using the same set of steps that cam_periph_mapmem uses. However, I inevitably
get the following panic after running the code for a bit:
Aug 30 14:55:26 testhost /kernel: panic:
You need to remove the -ansi flag to the compilation to remove the warnings, and
add a -pthread to the link stage so that libc_r will be used instead of libc.
As an aside: this only belongs on -questions. However, considering I got _zero_
response after posting to one then the other when one
x86 bootloaders terrify me, so I have not tried grub. Does grub
understand reiserfs?
Yes. If you had ever worked with the source to LILO it would terrify you too.
-Kip
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Having had to make Lilo boot Linux on these boards I have some familiarity with
them. They don't have a standard BIOS, so they don't support the standard
routines that the newer bootloader expects (e.g. memory sizing). If you have
more questions feel free to follow up off list - I doubt the
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