Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-08 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just about any language that has ORBit bindings. Ben Ford wrote: Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? -- = Mohammad A. Haque

Re: Signal 11

2000-12-08 Thread davej
David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... Can you reproduce it with bcrl's patch below: Did nothing for me. gcc still got a sig11 after a while. Took three runs of 'make bzImage' before it completed. I wondered if I'd been unlucky enough to have been sent a replacement K6-2 which was

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-08 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just about any language that has ORBit bindings. Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-08 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:27:51 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't have time to do more than just quickly apply the patch and leave in a hurry, but my Vaio certainly recognized the serial port on the combo cardbus card I have with this patch. Everything

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-08 Thread David Ford
* We can now write device drivers in perl, and let them run on the iMAC across the hall from you. :) Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? So you can easily facilitate opportunities for viruses ;) -d begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE

SysRq behavior

2000-12-08 Thread Frédéric L . W . Meunier
I don't remember having the same problem months (6?) ago when I built my first Kernel with this enabled (well, maybe I never touched the key). When built into the Kernel, by only pressing the PrintScreen/SysRq the current application is terminated (tested on a console and GNU screen). Is this

Re: Pthreads, linux, gdb, oh my! (fwd)

2000-12-08 Thread Kevin Buhr
Peter Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I have the following tiny test program which fails dramatically, using pthreads, in a number of fascinating ways on various version of linux, using various versions of glibc, under various (current) versions of GDB. It looks like a GDB bug. GDB

Re: cramfs filesystem patch

2000-12-08 Thread Tim Riker
I'd like to see these patches as well. They may be useful on the iPAQ (and similar hardware like my Yopy here... ;-) I wish some hardware vendor out there would build an x86 box that used memory addressable flash from 0 up and RAM up higher. A simple Linux kernel boot loader could then replace

another buffer.c:827 BUG, RAID1 reconstruction.

2000-12-08 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
Hi, I got this BUG report after test12-pre7 soft locked on my NFS server, all nfsd's in D state and I had to reboot and system was rebuilding the ide RAID1 arrays. NFS client test12-pre7 was rebooted as well, root logged in, and ran ldconfig NFS server BUG'd out Hand copied OOPS hope too much

Cache problems on test12-pre?

2000-12-08 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
Hi, I've notices weird compile time failures etc on test12-pre7, especially running more than 2 simultaneous processes... but most noticeable is the time it takes to run ldconfig, after the first time test11 takes less than 1 second, test12-pre7 takes ~40 seconds. both were run immediately

Re: esound over tcp problem with linux-2.4.0-test[89]

2000-12-08 Thread Ryan Murray
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:05:32PM -0400, John M. Flinchbaugh wrote: basically, when i added ram to my linux-2.4.0-test8 box taking it from 96M to 192M of ram. esd over tcpip started popping, hesitating, distorting. if i limit the memory at kernel boot to 127M (and no The popping and

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: I didn't have time to do more than just quickly apply the patch and leave in a hurry, but my Vaio certainly recognized the serial port on the combo cardbus card I have with this patch. Everything looked fine - I got a message saying

Re: Serial cardbus code.... for testing, please.....

2000-12-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
Oh, I forgot to mention: I use a slight modification to your patch: you left some functions as "__init/__initdata" functions/data even though they are should definitely be __devinit/__devinitdata for all the hotplug stuff. So the thing that works for me has had a global search-and-replace to

Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]

2000-12-08 Thread Mark Sutton
I agree that if you give a mentally unbalanced person a firearm, they might shoot themselves with it. I am suggesting we take away their firearm. Write support for NTFS is useful for migrating from Linux to NT, R/O support is useful for migrating NT to Linux. We won't be giving anything up. I

Re: Why is double_fault serviced by a trap gate?

2000-12-08 Thread richardj_moore
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Re: [PATCH,preliminary] cleanup shm handling

2000-12-08 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Linus, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8 Dec 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote: here is my first shot for cleaning up the shm handling. It did survive some basic testing but is not ready for inclusion. The only comment I have right now is that you probably should not mark

Re: Signal 11

2000-12-08 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: Some additional data points. It goes away on UP 2.4 kernels. Also, I can't recall seeing this problem on IA64. Maybe it's still there on IA64 and I just haven't been trying

Re: io_request_lock question (2.2)

2000-12-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:19:45PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Yes, and I believe that this is what's broken about the SCSI midlayer. The the io_request_lock cannot be completely released in a SCSI HBA because the flags You can

Re: cardbus pirq conflict

2000-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
Matthew Galgoci wrote: Hi Folks, I am running the 2.4.0test12pre7 kernel on my laptop computer, and I'm having some rather interesting problems. For the longest time, usb never worked on this machine. As of the happy patch that enabled bus mastering for usb controllers, it magically

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-08 Thread Ben Ford
Chris Lattner wrote: This email is here to announce the availability of a port of ORBit (the GNOME ORB) to the Linux kernel. This ORB, named kORBit, is available from our sourceforge web site (http://korbit.sourceforge.net/). A kernel ORB allows you to write kernel extensions in CORBA and

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