Re: Routing latency

2001-03-22 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Monday 19 March 2001 4:36, Will Andrews wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:46:53PM -0500, Dennis wrote: I never got an answer (as usual) from bill paul when I made the suggestions, and noone seemed interested in getting it fixed. He seems to get insulted when I infer that he did

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-27 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Monday 26 March 2001 11:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010326 22:40] wrote: Yeah, that's basically what I had to do in tdfx. You can take a look int src/sys/dev/tdfx/tdfx_pci.c under tdfx_ioctl(...) to get an idea of what needs to be done, if you need more

Re: LCD driver port (Linux - FreeBSD) needed for car-mp3 player

2001-04-30 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Sunday 29 April 2001 11:51, Shaun Dwyer wrote: Hi Mike, The software I am using in Linux (cajun - cajun.sourceforge.net) requires a serial display to work. What the linux driver does is emulate the serial display, and provides a /dev/lcd. As I am not a perl coder, I cannot modify

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-14 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Thursday 14 June 2001 9:13, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Rajappa Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010614 22:23] wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Because they did benchmarks on systems

Need help with driver....

2000-08-11 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi all, I'm a newbie to device driver writing and I have been learning well by reading the code of the other drivers in the system. I would ultimately like to port a linux driver for a VoIP telephony card (Quicknet PhoneJack) to FreeBSD, and so far I have a skeleton driver which does

Re: Need help with driver....(long)

2000-08-12 Thread Devin Butterfield
Mike Smith wrote: I'm a newbie to device driver writing and I have been learning well by reading the code of the other drivers in the system. I would ultimately like to port a linux driver for a VoIP telephony card (Quicknet PhoneJack) to FreeBSD, and so far I have a skeleton driver

Unknown driver gobbles resources??

2000-08-13 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi all, In the process of learning device driver writing, I have written a simple skeleton driver for an isa PnP card I have. Thanks to some kind folks on the list I have ironed out most of my confusion. However I've run into a strange problem that has me stumped. Although this driver works

Re: Unknown driver gobbles resources??

2000-08-13 Thread Devin Butterfield
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Devin Butterfield writes: : So my question is this: Do I need to do anything special to recover the : resources from the unknown driver so that during loading *my* module can : get the resources it needs?? Do I need to add something to my

/usr/include/sys/opt_posix.h missing...?

2000-08-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi, In trying to compile driver code which includes unistd.h, the compiler complains: cc -D_KERNEL -Wall -O2 -I/usr/include -o ixj.o -c ixj.c In file included from /usr/include/sys/unistd.h:40, from /usr/include/unistd.h:42, from ixj.c:21:

Re: /usr/include/sys/opt_posix.h missing...?

2000-08-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Devin Butterfield writes: : In trying to compile driver code which includes unistd.h, the compiler : complains: #include unistd.h isn't supported for drivers. You should not be including the -I/usr/include on the command line to compile

Panics from trying to open dev after kldunload

2000-09-09 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi all, I'm working on a device driver for FreeBSD for a VoIP telephony card and I stumbled upon a serious problem. If I "kldunload" my driver and subsequently try to open the device, the kernel panics. I found that the vn device suffers from this same bug. For example: Before kldload vn:

StrongARM support?

2000-12-13 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi all, Is there any work in progress to support running FreeBSD on ARM processors? If not, are there any plans to? I would be very interested in helping out with such an effort. I would love to have FreeBSD running on my iPAQ PocketPC. :) I know that linux is already running well on ARM but I

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-13 Thread Devin Butterfield
Jordan Hubbard wrote: Is there any work in progress to support running FreeBSD on ARM processors? If not, are there any plans to? I would be very interested in helping out with such an effort. I would love to have FreeBSD running on my iPAQ PocketPC. :) No work in progress, no plans.

Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-17 Thread Devin Butterfield
David Preece wrote: At 13:02 17/12/00 +, you wrote: Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple examples that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something simple like that? This is turning into a FAQ, but don't worry about it. The usual answer

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-18 Thread Devin Butterfield
"Michael C . Wu" wrote: [sent to -small too] I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time? I am very interested in the PPC and StrongARM port, but there are so few of us on -ppc... Perhaps the

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Devin Butterfield
David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:12:35PM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time? Agreed. Perhaps the first step would be to start a [EMAIL

Re: SmartDisk USB CompactFlash reader

2001-07-24 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 9:37, Jim Bryant wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Leif Neland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010724 19:18] wrote: I've got such a device; it was nessecary, because my camera run out of batteries before I could retrieve 48MB of pictures over the normal serial port

Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor

2001-07-24 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Tuesday 24 July 2001 7:59, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:49:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: Strongarm-based pcs designed by Chalice Technologies http://www.chaltech.com are available from Simtek http://www.simtec.co.uk/ This brings up the issue of reference

if_strip for FreeBSD?

2001-08-14 Thread Devin Butterfield
Hi folks, I was thinking about porting netbsd's if_strip driver (the driver for the metricom ricochet radios--allows you to use these radios as nodes in a WLAN). Before I do this, I thought I should first check to see if anyone else had already ported it to FreeBSD...? -- Regards, Devin. To

Re: if_strip for FreeBSD?

2001-08-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:27, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Scheidt writes: : :I was thinking about porting netbsd's if_strip driver (the driver for : : the metricom ricochet radios--allows you to use these radios as nodes : : in a WLAN). Before I do this, I

Re: if_strip for FreeBSD?

2001-08-15 Thread Devin Butterfield
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 11:39, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Devin Butterfield writes: : Oh, and the new radios work in peer-to-peer mode just fine. You can : either use them like regular modems and just dial the MAC address of the : other modem and establish a ppp link

Re: precise timing

2001-09-30 Thread Devin Butterfield
[...] was suggested you may want to consider a dedicated cpu based controller. Thre are a number of solutions for hobbyists (such as the handyboard, see www.handyboard.com). Unfortunately, money is a big factor. So that's not an option. :/ Atmel AVR microcontrollers are $10