Is this (printing out versions. etc) really a big deal so we should add stuff
like /proc/xxx, KERN_ to make things more complicated? It sounds to me
like to make the kernel smaller we'd actually end up with adding more code
and complexity to it. And quite frankly, if people don't read
Is Graphics really in the Windows kernel? I think GDI.EXE runs in user mode.
Olaf Hering wrote:
kde.o. 2.5?
Good idea! Graphics needs to be in the kernel to be fast. Windows
proved that.
thought SGI proved that :-)
Martin
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I thought it was ok with a 2.4.5-ac kernel however it started
acting up again today giving more i/o errors. I think I'm just going
to give up on these boards as I have 3 of them doing the exact same
thing. However they are flawless in up mode.
Nick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at
GDI.EXE was moved into the kernel in winNT 4.0 and has been there ever
since. M$ released a white paper about this claiming the performance
boost. worked great for me, but was one more thing to go wrong in kernel
space, although they touched on that as well.
it'd take me a bit to find a refernce
Is this (printing out versions. etc) really a big deal so we should add stuff
like /proc/xxx, KERN_ to make things more complicated? It sounds to me
like to make the kernel smaller we'd actually end up with adding more code
and complexity to it. And quite frankly, if people don't
Pardon me, but what does this have to do with Linux or the Linux Kernel?!?!
Post this on the usenet under advocacy, but please don't litter up the
kernel listserver with this.
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From: Rick Hohensee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:08:59PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
To understand the details of the code, trace the steps:
(i) The USB code can be found e.g. on
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-5.html
We find that Power is 102 and that Keypad-= is 103.
I find that KP =
2.4.6-pre6 and ext3-2.4-0.0.8-246p5 (had to to hand patch a little).
This message popped up on an idle system -- there were no odd cronjobs
scheduled around this time. Nobody was logged on. System had been up for
a
little over a day...first time seeing any messages like this.
The source
Mike Black wrote:
2.4.6-pre6 and ext3-2.4-0.0.8-246p5 (had to to hand patch a little).
This message popped up on an idle system -- there were no odd cronjobs
scheduled around this time. Nobody was logged on. System had been up for
a
little over a day...first time seeing any
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torrey Hoffman) wrote on 30.06.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So they compile it into the linux_logo.h image. It's now under the
GPL, of course... what does that do to the legal status of the logo?
Copyright: you named it.
Any other right: unchanged. (The GPL doesn't demand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Wolber) wrote on 29.06.01 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does sed tell you who programmed it on startup?
Awk?
Perl?
Groff?
Gcc?
See a pattern here?
Yeah, the output of these programms are usually parsed by other programs.
s/usually/sometimes/
Most of
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
To understand the details of the code, trace the steps:
(i) The USB code can be found e.g. on
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-5.html
We find that Power is 102 and that Keypad-= is 103.
I find that
... 2.4.0 - 2.4.5-pre1 work just fine.
Since the last changes related to the softirq stuff I'm getting an OOPS at
boot after:
Calibrating delay loop... kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!
Here is the decode trace:
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.5-pre1. Options used
-v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux
Hi,
I installed crash2.6 on my machine.
When I give the command crash from the prompt it says no debugging
symbols found in /boot/vmlinux2.2.14-12. Why does this message show.
Thanks in advance,
Regs,
sathish
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I'm hopelessly behind on my mail, so this has probably been dealt with,
already, but here goes: It's a userspace problem.
That is, any automagical VM tuner ought to be a daemon. If the kernel
doesn't expose enough information or knobs to make a good VM tuner, add
what is needed.
Meanwhile, if
Hi,
[1.] Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
[2.]
I have a just brought a Compaq Armade 110 PIII, and am having a lot of
trouble getting the kernel to operate effectively. The problem is that any
kernel I run (except one pre-compiled RedHat kernel) runs very slowly. The
thing is
Daniel Harvey wrote:
[1.] Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
Intel will not release docs for SpeedStep, so we cannot do anything
about this except annoy Intel (or buy competing, documented processors).
I have a Toshiba P-III laptop with SpeedStep. It was similarly slow
until I got
The Compaq Armada doesn't appear to have a BIOS setting for the power
settings.
I still don't get the fact that one kernel will run fast, while the rest do
the real SLOW thing.
Thanks,
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Director, Amristar Pty Ltd;
Pardon me, but what does this have to do with Linux or the Linux Kernel?!?!
Post this on the usenet under advocacy, but please don't litter up the
kernel listserver with this.
What this has to do with Linux is that throughout the whole process
Microsoft has been putting Linux in the news,
Try this, as root:
[root@mnm akpm]# /var/log/messages
bash: /var/log/messages: Text file busy
Strange return value, that.
It happens because vfs_permission() sees CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
and returns yes on a file which has no `x' bits set.
Then open_exec() falls through to deny_write_access() which
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
I'd love to do some of this, but since the box is now being shipped to a
colo facility in New York, I don't really have a choice in the matter.
Hopefully someone here doing SMP + EEPro100 can see if they can reproduce
the issue (2.4.5 kernel).
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:36:51PM +0800, Daniel Harvey wrote:
The Compaq Armada doesn't appear to have a BIOS setting for the
power settings.
I still don't get the fact that one kernel will run fast, while the
rest do the real SLOW thing.
Not answering your question, but you might want to
Chris/Adam/Mark,
Have just sucked down the SRPM of the kernel that sees to run OK. As per you
suggestions, checking out the config and patches ...
Thanks,
Daniel.
-Original Message-
Download the source-RPM for the 'fast' kernel, and also the virgin
version of the same kernel, and
Kurt Maxwell Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not
dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and
Solaris, and the other operating systems I have installed at home).
Frankly,
I don't have a problem with
On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:12, you wrote:
I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not
dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and
Solaris, and the other operating systems I have installed at home).
Frankly, I don't have a problem with
- From Kurt Maxwell Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
You can choose to work somewhere else, or choose to enter a different field.
There are a lot of people who don't know how to use Linux/Unix. Windows is
much easier for them and has more applications. They practically have no
other choice if
Nope, I'm using hard ones.
- Johan.
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Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will.
On 29 Jun 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
== J R de Jong J.R. writes:
Hi all, Recently I upgraded from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5, but after that
I got users complaining about io
On Sunday 01 July 2001 13:48, you wrote:
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not
dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and
Solaris, and the other operating systems I have installed at home).
Frankly, I
Ever since building this system there have been spontaneous and
unpredictable lockups, usually at least once per day. Sometimes several per
day. The lockup is sometimes preceded by X starting to display things
strangely (on a Voodoo 3 w/XF 4.X). Then I have a few minutes to reboot
before it
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
In that case, I have the following options:
1) Start my own ISP
2) Use Windows XP
3) Not use Windows XP and not be able to use my current ISP
4) Go to a different ISP
I'll just have to decide which I value more. As long as I won't be killed
Hua Zhong wrote:
- From Kurt Maxwell Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
You can choose to work somewhere else, or choose to enter a different field.
There are a lot of people who don't know how to use Linux/Unix. Windows is
much easier for them and has more applications. They practically have no
I would like to report a bug that I've seen in a few linux kernels now. This
may be a serious problem with the IDE controler software because it may cause
a hard drive to ware out over a period of time. I've noticed for a long time
that when linux is loaded the hard drive light on my computer
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:35:24PM -0400, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
So as a user you are free to not use M$ products.
What if you are IT. Then you do not have a choice.
You always have a choice, work elsewhere. If you're in a position where you're
working with MS products, you were the one who
On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Sunday 01 July 2001 13:48, you wrote:
Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not
dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and
Solaris, and the other operating
On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I'll just have to decide which I value more. As long as I won't be killed
for using a different OS, I still have a choice.
No, but you might be forced out of a job.
Apologies for the followup to a
No need to worry, I'm already downloading the ISOs. All will be well soon
enough :-D
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Paul Mundt wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:35:24PM -0400, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
So as a user you are free to not use M$ products.
What if you are IT. Then you do not have a choice.
You always have a choice, work elsewhere. If you're in a position where you're
working with MS products, you
Paul Mundt wrote:
Oh please, next you'll be blaming world hunger on MS because third world
countries can't afford licenses of win2k.
Absolutely. If their governments didn't have to shell out such a large
amount of money on M$ licenses, they'd have more money to feed their
people with...
;-)
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
In that case, I have the following options:
1) Start my own ISP
2) Use Windows XP
3) Not use Windows XP and not be able to use my current ISP
4) Go to a different ISP
Argument.
I'll just have to decide which I value more. As
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:11:47PM -0400, Hua Zhong wrote:
There are a lot of people who don't know how to use Linux/Unix. Windows is
much easier for them and has more applications. They practically have no
other choice if they have to use a computer in their jobs (maybe they can
It's working beautifully here. I'll forward the patch to the
maintainer, since I have no idea if he's seen this thread.
Cheers!
PGP signature
For quite some time now I've wanted to try and do something in the kernel.
And I need a simple project to start with, so I decided to create a
filesystem that reads and writes to a XML file. It's really basic right now
(does not support permissions, but that should not be too hard to add)
The bad network behavior was due to shared irqs somehow screwing
things up. This explained most but not all of the problems.
ah, that's why your test pgm succeeded on my systems..
When I last posted I had a reproducible test case which spewed a bunch
of packets from a server to a
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 10:59:59PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
From: Jeff V. Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Novell has recently threatened to try to take my house and
assets if I post any more NWFS releases or MANOS.
[snip]
They are wounded in the market ...
A quote for the lumbering
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:16:34AM -0400, Trever L. Adams wrote:
I am doing very well with my consulting projects, but to be honest,
my family has sufferred horribly in the past four years fighting with
Novell every other week, and there's a very strong chance I will be
moving shop to
Paul Mundt wrote:
You always have a choice, work elsewhere. If you're in a position where you're
working with MS products, you were the one who made the decision to do so.
MS is not at fault, claiming so is childish.
Nobody chooses to work with MS, they merely take the job that's offered.
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:01:51PM -0700, Paul Mundt wrote:
You always have a choice, work elsewhere. If you're in a position where you're
working with MS products, you were the one who made the decision to do so.
MS is not at fault, claiming so is childish.
_I_ think it's childish to claim
Hi,
I think I've triggered a bug in the ipchains/iptables part of the kernel. Here is the
story :
The server was a 866MHz PIII with 384 MByte of RAM running RH7.1 with a 2.4.5-ac21
kernel.
It was used as a router/firewall with 2 netcards (not sure which type, but I don't
think
that's
Ever since building this system there have been spontaneous and
unpredictable lockups, usually at least once per day. Sometimes several per
day. The lockup is sometimes preceded by X starting to display things
strangely (on a Voodoo 3 w/XF 4.X). Then I have a few minutes to reboot
before
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By author:szonyi calin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
Almost always ?
It seems like gcc is THE ONLY program which gets
signal 11
Why the X server doesn't get signal 11 ?
Why others programs don't get signal 11 ?
gcc happens to be one
_I_ think it's childish to claim the above. You _may_ have a
choice, yes, but
is that choice equal or fair? Microsoft has infected both the
user area as
much as the business/work area. If you want to purchase a PC because your
computer just fried and you want to finish a paper or
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:23:17PM -0700, Justin Guyett wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the
appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some
Paul Mundt wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:35:24PM -0400, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
So as a user you are free to not use M$ products.
What if you are IT. Then you do not have a choice.
You always have a choice, work elsewhere. If you're in a position where you're
working with MS products, you
Jesse Pollard wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
I'll just have to decide which I value more. As long as I won't be killed
for using a different OS, I still have a choice.
No, but you might be forced out of a job.
Apologies for
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:32:51PM -0700, Marius Nita wrote:
_I_ think it's childish to claim the above. You _may_ have a choice, yes, but
is that choice equal or fair? Microsoft has infected both the user area as
much as the business/work area. If you want to purchase a PC because your
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, watermodem wrote:
[snip interior quotes]
Would never work with the ac-series. Not enough time
to form a neural pattern between builds. There is
a semi-prior art here. Unix on the Tandem (now Compaq)
Helix shipped (and maybe still does) with a Neural Net
for system
Hi HPA.
Some time ago I installed Linux (Redhat 6.0) on my pc (Cx486 8M
RAM) and gcc had a lot of signal 11 (a couple every hour) I was
upgrading the kernel every time there was a new kernel and from
2.2.12(or 14) no more signal 11 (very rare) Is this still a
hardware problem ? Was a
Riley Williams wrote:
Wasn't 2.2.12 the kernel that included the `lock halt` bug patch?
Perhaps, but is has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this
discussion.
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It's hard to understand the point of such arguments. Surely you shouldn't
be upset at someone for providing you the best option you have, should you?
The point is they aren't offering the best solution! They are taking
away all others! That is why people dislike the company.
-b
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:
Perhaps I should say again that my current IT job is working w/ small
businesses and personal/home installations. In these cases, as well as
with others, it is not so much the OS that I have a problem w/. It is
the insistence of an all Macroshaft solution. Windows isn't totally bad.
I would
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:50:44PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
Name a single tech company anywhere in the world that doesn't have to
deal with microsoftisms.
This depends on your definition of dealing with MSisms. If you mean having a
copy of an MS product physically present at a business
At the Partition Check stage, I start getting hde: lost interrupt
messages. /dev/hde is an IBM DTLA-307030, sitting on an HPT370
controller (motherboard is KA7-100). Eventually the partitions appear
in the list, interspersed with these lost interrupt messages, but very
slowly. Then there was a
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
You can choose to work somewhere else, or choose to enter a different field.
As demonstrated many times over the past several years, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to buy a PC without bundled m$-ware. Even if you
dont use m$-ware you are
Hi Peter.
Wasn't 2.2.12 the kernel that included the `lock halt` bug patch?
Perhaps, but is has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of
this discussion.
The `lock halt` bug patch was specific to the Cyrix processors (not to
be confused with the `lock registers` patch for the Intel
Riley Williams wrote:
Hi Peter.
Wasn't 2.2.12 the kernel that included the `lock halt` bug patch?
Perhaps, but is has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of
this discussion.
The `lock halt` bug patch was specific to the Cyrix processors (not to
be confused with the `lock
- Original Message -
From: Jesse Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kurt Maxwell Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]; J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
[snip]
In that case, I have the following
- Original Message -
From: Adam Schrotenboer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LKML [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Kurt Maxwell Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not
dissatisfied
Hi Peter.
Wasn't 2.2.12 the kernel that included the `lock halt` bug patch?
Perhaps, but is has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of
this discussion.
The `lock halt` bug patch was specific to the Cyrix processors
(not to be confused with the `lock registers` patch for the
[snip]
Get real, look at all the moronic things that various linux distributions
do.
Is this a reason to hate linux and demand the head of Linus as
compensation
for your troubles?
This kind of attitude, and you wonder why MS attacks linux.
Why would that make MS afraid of Linux. It
Paul Mundt wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:50:44PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
Name a single tech company anywhere in the world that doesn't have to
deal with microsoftisms.
This depends on your definition of dealing with MSisms. If you mean having a
copy of an MS product physically present at a
- Original Message -
From: Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Adam Schrotenboer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LKML
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:50:44PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
Name
- Original Message -
From: Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Marius Nita [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
It's hard to understand the point of such arguments. Surely you
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Marius Nita wrote:
_I_ think it's childish to claim the above. You _may_ have a choice, yes, but
is that choice equal or fair? Microsoft has infected both the user area as
Problem: I don't like company policy
Solution: Deal or get another job
whine
Why should I have to
Jim Roland wrote:
[snip]
Get real, look at all the moronic things that various linux distributions
do.
Is this a reason to hate linux and demand the head of Linus as
compensation
for your troubles?
This kind of attitude, and you wonder why MS attacks linux.
Why would that make MS afraid
- Original Message -
From: Adam Schrotenboer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LKML
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Jim Roland wrote:
[snip]
Good for business. bad for
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:50:44PM -0700, Ben Ford wrote:
Microsoft is like a mountain with their installed base. Like it
or not, no matter how loud the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow
to it.
:-)
Jeff
Paul Mundt wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:35:24PM -0400, Adam Schrotenboer
I get an occasional panic in __tcp_inherit_port(sk,child). I believe the
reason is tb=sk-prev is NULL.
sk-prev is set to NULL in only few places including __tcp_put_port(sk).
Perhaps there is a serialization problem between __tcp_inherit_port and
__tcp_put_port ??? One possibility is that
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Justin Guyett wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
As demonstrated many times over the past several years, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to buy a PC without bundled m$-ware. Even if you
dont use m$-ware you
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all that unlikely.
I seem to recall that MS products cannot be used in aircraft control
rooms for this reason.
It's not just MS. Aircraft control rooms (as well as nuclear power
plants,
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From: William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
This seems to be meant as a joke, but I don't think it's all
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, William T Wilson wrote:
My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns
bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available
to them. The shuttle computer is not adequate for many tasks because it
is something like 30 years old,
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, William T Wilson wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns
bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available
to them.
actually the mission related laptops are thinkpads running
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
In pre7:
me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects
Can you be more verbose about this ?
I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO
thing and Linus accidentally backed out the wrong code ;)
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Alex Khripin wrote:
There was a discussion in October, 2000, about the Granger and
McKusick paper on soft updates for the BSD FFS. Reading the thread,
nothing conclusive seemed to come out of it.
What you want is ext3.
It is a journaling version of ext2, which basically
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects
Can you be more verbose about this ?
I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO
thing and Linus accidentally backed out the wrong code ;)
You wish.
While on the topic of reslilent, high-performance filesystems, what ever
became of Tux, Daniel Philip's mythical WAFL-type filesystem?
On 01 Jul 2001 23:33:52 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Alex Khripin wrote:
There was a discussion in October, 2000, about the Granger and
I re-subscribed for this? Blarg. When did the LKML turn into slashdot?
On 01 Jul 2001 17:33:38 -0700, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Ben Ford wrote:
Name a single tech company anywhere in the world that doesn't have to
deal with microsoftisms.
http://www.wasabisystems.com/
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects
Can you be more verbose about this ?
I think this was fixed by the GFP_BUFFER vs. GFP_CAN_FS + GFP_CAN_IO
thing and Linus
Good god, I've created a monster.
I intended to just make one point and that be the end of it, but obviously I
misjudged. I should have just sent it privately so as to prevent this flood
of OT posts. I apologize for that. I made a mistake, and now I know better.
Sorry for the trouble.
--
Correction: I said -ac13 was bad, but ac13 was actually ok. It was ac14
that was the problem spot.
Also note how Alan happened to merge the MM patches in the reverse order
from the preX series: in the -ac series, Rik's page_launder() patch is in
-ac14, while my VM changes are merged in -ac15.
On Monday 02 July 2001 04:58, Michael Rothwell wrote:
While on the topic of reslilent, high-performance filesystems, what ever
became of Tux, Daniel Philip's mythical WAFL-type filesystem?
He's working on it.
--
Daniel
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Recently I tried running the Debian installer on top of a 2.4.6-pre6
kernel. It got up to the point of installing libc and then the system
hung. It was still taking interrupts (I could change vt's, etc.) but
no user processes were running.
What was happening was rather interesting. The init
This type of invasive marketing is why people aren't going to be buying MS
products. (Not al people, just those who choose.) If you want to be a MS
user, they have you over a barrel, if you *have* to use MS products, they
have you over a barrel. Some folks, myself included, have to use MS
G'damn That's so poetically accurate, I've added it to my sig list.
I've worked in a large tech corporation for many years, (20+) and I've
relatively recently had to attempt to `open` some managerial minds, and
discovered futility of it all.
A company's public perception is an invaluable
Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What some people don't realize is that Microsoft *DID* do Unix a long time
ago, they were even into OS/2 Development. :-)
And they annoyed not just a few application vendors when just a few
months after giving the message Go with OS/2, it is the way
With apic enabled on this board, some normal amount of disk access
(including building a kernel) is successful. However, irqs are messed up.
The eepro100 module for the onboard 82559 nic loads, but prints this after
the revision history: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device
00:07.0.
There are several areas that need restructuring and work, and I am
available to answer questions, and assist with technical consulting,
I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the
appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I suspect
the FSF is a
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the
appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I
suspect the FSF is a much much better asignee for the
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the
appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I
suspect the FSF is a much much better asignee for the code itself
I assume the legal threats that
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:54:18AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:50:00PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I'm not a file sustem hacker, nor since I work for one vendor the
appropriate owner for larg chunks of code in some people's eyes. I
suspect the FSF is a much much
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