Re: Software floating point library?

2008-06-28 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hi; I am sure NetBSD ported some variant of it but here is softfloat: http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html cheers, Pedro. Hai un indirizzo email difficile da ricordare? Scegli quello che hai sempre desiderato su Yahoo! Mail http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nuovo_indirizzo.html

Anyone interested in HDLC support for pppd ?

2008-06-03 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; I started playing a bit with net/pppd23 and I noticed there are some patches for FreeBSD-3.0 that were never committed (NetBSD certainly has them). Our pppd(8) is derived from the samba pppd port and should have them if we want to continue updating it. I started adapting them but I am

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-11-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; You might want to compare your code with archivers/lzo, which is meant to be faster that the other archivers but is GPLd. Just to mention .. NetBSD has a pool(9) that you might want to check out. I think it was used in the original tmpfs:

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Thomas Sparrevohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT Hmm... Installation order is important, perhaps you already had FreeBSD before installing Vista?

MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-27 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hi; FWIW, if you just got your new computer with Windows Vista installed and were hoping to dual boot FreeBSD on it, let me tell you that FreeBSD's bootloader will screw things up. Microsoft basically declared the war on alternative OSs so it seems vista doesn't like: - bootloaders different

Re: SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA for sparse files any takers?

2006-11-14 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Pawel Jakub Dawidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I've some starting code for this and I'm planning to implement them, at least for ZFS. Thanks! I recall from previous postings on this list that it's a feature desired on UFS + BSDtar too. Pedro.

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-20 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
FWIW; I went on to check that Embedded C++ that David Nugent mentioned, and I found this: http://www.caravan.net/ec2plus/ Acording to the QA section: The goal of EC++ is to provide embedded systems programmers with a subset of C++ that is easy for the average C programmer to understand and

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-12 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... I think the general concensus is that it's up to one of the proponents of this to actually implement it and demonstrate that it works and has no undesirable side-effects. I only wanted to point out that Darwin modules are not the only

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-12 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... Windows is the de-facto standard OS: a lot of people know how to use it. Well... I wish several commercial CAD software producers thought otherwise. We're bright enough to know that popularity doesn't imply technical excellence,

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-11 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
FWIW and just IMHO; I think it would be really nice to have the IOKit, or a lookalike that uses kobj(), available on FreeBSD. Another interesting experiment that I've mentioned before is OpenBFS: http://www.bug-br.org.br/openbfs/index.phtml?section=development OpenBFS, as all file systems under

Re: Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

2006-06-04 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... It may still be worth trying. I only started looking at `umem' from sourceforge this week, but if there is more interest in ptmalloc, maybe it is better if I focused on why ptmalloc fails to work on FreeBSD. FWIW, I just submitted

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... ZFS surely is cool, but I'm not sure how much it benefits FreeBSD compared to something like journaling, or adding features to our existing filesystem, or even write support for one of the already ported read-only filesystems we

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-06-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I realize how hard getting write support for one of those is, for certain.You'd still have to go through the labor with ZFS though, unless you are talking about read-only support for it. I don't know much about licensing stuff...

Porting libumem (was Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD)

2006-06-01 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On 2006-06-01 03:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'd also like to see libumem ported. aolMe too./aol I have been toying with the idea of consulting Jason Evans about this for a while now. If something like this starts, are you

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-31 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; --- Michael Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: snip (I forgot to mention Apple is interested in it too) Since this is a project that would benefit just about anyone using FreeBSD, it would be good to see a project like this get funding or do a fund raise. As a summer of code

Re: Is anyone working on a port of ZFS to FreeBSD

2006-05-23 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hello; DragonFly and NetBSD are interested, I'm sure there's interest in FreeBSD too, but AFAICT no one has started. Here is an interesting link: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/porting/ cheers, Pedro. --- Pedro F. Giffuni M. Sc. Industrial Eng. University of Pittsburgh

Solaris libumem port on the works

2006-03-15 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
Hi; This was posted recently to the OpenSolaris lists, and I thought it might be interesting for us too: __ Port of libumem on Sourceforge Posted: Mar 9, 2006 7:22 PM Hello, We've ported libumem to run on Linux and Windows (with work in progress for *BSDish systems) as part

Re: Solaris libumem port on the works

2006-03-15 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
--- John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ... It's definately interesting, but doubtful will ever be imported to replace libc's malloc for one reason.. the CDDL is effectively the GPL: ... It's nevertheless less viral. I don't want libumem in the base distribution though... it

OpenSolaris emulation? (was Re: FreeBSD list of projects for volunteers)

2005-12-08 Thread pfgshield-freebsd
(sorry for cross-posting, in the future this seems better suited for emulation@ ) Hi; I didn't see any interest for this on the website but perhaps we should be working on improving our SVR4 emulation now that OpenSolaris is available. Possible tasks include: - Updating the emulator wrt NetBSD.