Great FICL Hacks

I've been playing around with the boot loader(8), which seems to be a very powerful piece of software. However I'm really only using the 'load', 'unload', and 'boot' functions. I'd be interested in hearing about more powerful uses of this software. Are there any great hacks of FICL that people

Use of newbus in sys/pci/pci.c

Hello All, I have a question on the sys/pci/pci.c code, and its use of the newbus architecture. An example of the code in question is: static struct resource * pci_alloc_resource(device_t dev, device_t child, int type, int *rid, u_long start, u_long end, u_long count, u_int

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

Hi Warner, Thanks for your detailed writeup of the direction that you want to go in. What can you do to help? Well, firstly I'd like to get the xe driver under FreeBSD. But before I even get to that stage, I'll have to learn about the pccard subsystem, and more about the FreeBSD kernel

pccard disruptions : how did it go?

Hello All, I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 titled: Massive pccard disruptions to continue So, have these disruptions continued? And what is the current status with pccard support in the kernel? I've noticed that a few files still contain the

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

Warner wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Kennett writes: : I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 : titled: : Massive pccard disruptions to continue : : So, have these disruptions continued? And what is the current status with : pccard

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

On a slight tangent, I've just gone back and reread Greg Lehey's 'How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions'. It's a great document, covering a lot of the etiquette for the freebsd-questions mailing list. It can be found at: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html However, the document

Re: keeping termcap up to date

I just wonder why don't we just import termcap database from the master site: http://www.tuxedo.org/terminfo, rather than maintaining our own copy? Minor correction: the URL is http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/terminfo. Mike Kennett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: GNU GLOBAL

Hi Shigio, As the owner/author of a piece of software, you can distribute the source code under any license that you like (GNU/BSD/Artistic etc...). Indeed, there is no reason to choose just a single license under which you distribute your code -- it should be possible for you to distribute the

Re: GNU GLOBAL

Hi Shigio, As the owner/author of a piece of software, you can distribute the source code under any license that you like (GNU/BSD/Artistic etc...). Indeed, there is no reason to choose just a single license under which you distribute your code -- it should be possible for you to distribute the

Crossing building alpha world fails

the cross? The source code tree is from freebsd-current, taken as of today. The build failed with yesterdays -current as well. Any help is appreciated. Michael Kennett (m...@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body