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we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the kernel
will use for determining the boot drive and later re-order drives, if
required.
Like the ext2 labels? (man e2label)
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e solution. Someone stripped
that #ifdef out of the driver during 2.3.something.
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That's not the issue. LILO takes whatever you pass to root= and converts
it to a device number at /sbin/lilo time. An idiotic practice on the
part of LILO, in my opinion, that ought to have been fixed a long time
ago.
That's why you want
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it:
the standard pc (PC99 or whatever it is called this year) doesn't
have a PS/2 port, only USB. So we can remove even the question
from the config system, no?
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they know is right for them.
Thankfully, decent tools for novice users already exists, in the KDE project
for example. And if the tool is missing a few things, please improve it
instead of forking a new tool with the same goal.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm NOT opposed to having a config tool everyone and
their aunt can use. I'm opposed to that tool taking away the options expert
users have to do what they know is right for them.
I'll take that as a vote
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
It would. Because people who like the old config would continue to use the
old tools
Excuse me?
Do you really believe that anyone is going to maintain the CML1 tools
for as long as a nanosecond after they get dropped out of the kernel tree?
I hereby volunteer to
Michael Meissner wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 06:09:09PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Aunt Tillie shouldn't try to manually configure a kernel.
Ummm, maybe Aunt Tillie wants to learn how to configure a kernel After
all, all of us at one point in time were newbies in terms of
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:17:07PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
It's been an ugly, nasty, horrible job -- *much* nastier, by an order
of magnitude, than designing and writing the CML2 engine. Going the
other direction would be worse. Like chewing razor blades is the
simile that leaps to
a freak if you put a ISA
NIC in your 8way server. But YES the Red Hat kernel needs both, although
it's unlikely you need both on the same machine.
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derivations got turned into
manual ones for expert mode...
I haven't tried CML2 yet (I've yet to find a suitable .deb of Python2 for my
Debian Potato playbox) so I don't know if that is actually possible, or that
it requires some redesign.
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It's not a language problem, the dependencies can be expressed and should be
checked by the tools, they just don't; I had a fix for that in the 2.1.125 times but
nobody cared enough.
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but the descriptions are easily extractable. Maybe it's
a good idea to make the powertweak set complete instead / share the set
with the kernel docs.
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BH wrote:
Great work, its nice to see none, or fewer No help availables in the kernel
configuration.
Some quick glances:
Linux Kernel v2.4.5-ac5 Configuration
CML1
Bottom of IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices;
Support Promise software RAID (NEW) - Help
There is no help available
the linker
from being too smart.
The patch only changes the i386 linker-script, if this patch makes it into
2.2.18, I'll make sure the other archs are changed as well.
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This, together with fixes for most other things, can be
found at
http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/2.2.18/compile.diff
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system.
So the solution is to copy the .config to a safe place, type "make
mrproper", copy the .config back and then type "make oldconfig".
If you see more things that don't compile, try the patch at
http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/2.2.18/compile.diff
to see if that fixes it.
in architectures that aren't the one that the
developer uses).
That's why there are people that try to built all possible combinations of
.config options. Granted, that doesn't happen for non-i386 yet, but that is
just a matter of available hardware :)
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for the
hamradio-drivers pt.c and pi2.c. None of the new names are used anywhere
else in the kernel.
Alan: this needs fixing in the v2.2-tree too, probably.
This problem has been fixed in the 2.2 tree a long time ago.
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#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dynamic_syscall_in_modules_helper);
#endif
I think this is total bullshit. EXPORT_SYMBOLS should be a nop anyway if
modules are turned off, as there is no use for it.
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reference to `agp_initialize'
init/main.o(.data.init+0x144): undefined reference to `agp_setup'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
Could you try the patch below?
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--- /mnt/raid/1/2.2/linux-2.2.18p6/init/main.c Tue Sep 12 21:11:23 2000
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You don't need the source for that. It might just be possible to examine
the resulting vmlinux for it.
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that this is properly fixed in pre15 by making char2uni's first
argument "const char *" instead of "char *"; casting it as you did only
hides a (currently non existing but potential) bug where an NLS function
might modify the original.
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kernel configurable parameters. Look
at /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward, etc.
Powertweak (http://powertweak.sourceforge.net) restores those as well, and
provides a GUI to set/change those. It doesn't do the hdparm bits, that
is on our TODO list though.
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in the sound section, which is asked _after_
the Miro question is asked. The result is that the dep_tristate for the Miro
will use the CONFIG_ACI_MIXER value of the _previous_ .config.
Yes, this is a pain, but there is no good way to fix this with the current
Config.in system.
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would be a much better command-line.
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The module is called like that for a while now, and you might have had an
old symlink lying around from 2.4.1
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, while it should wait in INTERRUPTIBLE
state. The fix isn't as trivial as removing 2 letters though, I'll send Alan
a real patch on monday.
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elsewhere as well. Does one exist?
cramfs is compressed but read-only, jffs has the potential to do compressed
writes as well
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directory?
I would vote for
include/linux -exported interfaces
include/kernel -kernel internal interfaces
include/asm -kernel internal/archspecific interfaces
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it is no candidate
for inclusion...
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
- pre4:
- Andrea Arkangeli: update to LVM-0.9
lvm.c: In function `lvm_do_create_proc_entry_of_lv':
[snip]
Hi,
The patch below fixes this.
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diff -ur linux/drivers/md/lvm.c /mnt/raid/0/linux
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net/network.o(.text+0x3ff92): undefined reference to `atm_lane_init'
net/network.o(.text+0x40039): undefined reference to `atm_mpoa_init'
Hi,
The patch below should fix that.
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--- linux/net/atm/Makefile Fri Dec 22 18
of
our network.
Is this machine by chance an SMP machine ?
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video1394.o(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `ohci_csr_rom'
ohci1394.o(.data+0x0): first defined here
Known bug, fix attached below.
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diff -urN /mnt/kernel/clean/linuxprereleaseac5/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
linux
guess...
This patch, and a lot of others of a similar nature, are in my test10pre6
compile patch at
http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/t10p6.diff
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on could be used for this ? Or a common detection routine
that other drivers could use ?
The way it is done now, even a generic i386 compiled kernel (think
distributions) will use the fast MMX raid code. For the copy_page and
friends this extra test is probably too much overhead. (the 512 test is
inlin
to get the proper 80 ribbon cable that is required for ATA/66 and
ATA/100!
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Andi Kleen wrote:
No it would not. Often you want cycle accurate couting for profiling
purposes.
Isn't that why /dev/cpu/%d/msr exists?
This is root only though..
(Yes, you can crash AMD boxes by reading MSR's)
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I wrote a set of programs to tune the MMX code. Arjan I suspect did similar
when he reoptimised the code for the newer Athlon.
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They post on LKM as last resort.
I tried that, too. It didn't work either.
Most lklm readers ignore posts that look like trolls or are for proposals
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megs/second. So, my question is - why were they so much faster in debian,
and how can I replicate that in redhat?
What version ? 7.1 tries to take countermeasures against the datacorruption
bugs in the VIA chipsets
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The kernel module is called ide-cs while the pcmcia-cs package
looks for ide_cs. I'm not sure which should be corrected...
pcmcia-cs I'd say.
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If the symbol has the letters 'F', 'I', 'S' and 'H' in it, in any order,
then it's broken.
First batch of fixes for these broken symbols
--- ./arch/i386/config.in Thu Jan 18 14:36:59 2001
+++ ./arch/i386/config.in.fixed
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Yes, but we currently have more than 10K cycles for doing
memset of a page.
make that 3800 or so. (700 Mhz AMD Duron)
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Hi,
Before I go any further with this investigation, I'd like to get an
idea
of how much of a performance improvement the K7 fast_page_copy will give
me.
Can someone suggest the best benchmark to test the speed of this
routine?
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Arjan - care to unroll the tail 320 bytes of copying from the main loop ?
I'll see what I can do to make us not loose too much speed.
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David Gordon (LMC) wrote:
I found that when kHTTPd is compiled as a module, kernel 2.4.5 will hang
at boot. However, when kHTTPd is omitted or compiled into the kernel,
the boot is okay.
This is very strange. Does your kernel do the same if you compile IPv6
as module and khttpd off ?
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Tom Sightler wrote:
Whoops!! Sorry, forgot the attachment.
[root@iso-2146-l1 ttsig]# ping 10.10.4.254
PING 10.10.4.254 (10.10.4.254) from 10.10.4.33 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.10.4.254: icmp_seq=3
. I wish Promise was more helpful during the development of
this driver,
as it is currently developed fully independent and without any help /
support or even
acknowledgement of Promise. As a result, not yet all RAID modes and
configurations are
fully supported.
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have a module for the K6 PowerNow which allows you to do
echo 450 /proc/sys/cpu/0/frequency
and does the right thing wrt udelay / bogomips etc..
I can dig it out if you want.. sounds like this should be a more generic
thing.
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Vasu Varma P V wrote:
Hi,
Is there any limitation on DMA memory we can allocate using
kmalloc(size, GFP_DMA)? I am not able to acquire more than
14MB of the mem using this on my PCI SMP box with 256MB ram.
I think there is restriction on ISA boards of 16MB.
Can we increase it ?
Why?
if the 3
subsystems that need such
bufferheads now (MD RAID1, ATARAID RAID0 and the bouncebuffer(head)
code) could share their
pool.
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:28:17PM +0200, Manfred H. Winter wrote:
Hi!
I tried to install kernel 2.4.6 with same configuration as 2.4.5, but
booting failed with:
kernel BUG at softirq.c:206!
do you have any problem with those patches applied?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:32:00PM +0800, Thibaut Laurent wrote:
And the winner is... Andrea. Kudos to you, I've just applied these patches,
recompiled and it seems to work fine.
Too bad, this was the perfect excuse for getting rid of those good old Cyrix
boxen ;)
As Andrea's patches don't
I try to do stuff like inserting modules they oops left, right, and centre.
What motherboard, how big is your PSU ?
This code has the tendency to get full memory-bandwidth and it appears that
some boards can't handle this
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]config are a bit smarter, but at least make menuconfig has the
annoying behavior of hiding the question for the Miro card until you
magically turn on the ACI mixer in the sound section. This confuses the hell
out of peope when they go through make menuconfig "top bottom".
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are memory-bound (eg 1 Gbyte/sec throughput)
Userspace program for the athlon code:
http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/athlon.c
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programs (read: benchmarks like hdparm
and tiobench)[1]. You will get improvents in all other cases.
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[1] This can be fix by a 10 line patch, however this changes the on-disk
layout.
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data if this setting is not done.
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conservative settings instead of "optimal"
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the first channel is seen.
I have a patch to work around that. However the better solution would be to
have a native driver for the raid; I plan to start working on that next
week...
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Hi,
On Friday 13 April 2007 23:21:00 Ingo Molnar wrote:
[announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler
[CFS]
i'm pleased to announce the first release of the Modular Scheduler Core
and Completely Fair
Andi Kleen wrote:
Rationale:
- It cannot be enabled in normal builds because all current lds
become very slow when they have to handle thousands of sections.
afaik this is only ever reported on SuSE; I've not heard it on any
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Within reason, it's not the number of clients that X has that causes its
CPU bandwidth use to sky rocket and cause problems. It's more to to
with what type of clients they are. Most GUIs (even ones that are
constantly updating visual data (e.g. gkrellm -- I can open quite a
large
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:03:06 Ashok Raj wrote:
Floppy disk drivers dont work well with DMA remapping.
What is the problem? You can't allocate mappings 16MB?
floppy doesn't use the DMA mapping API :)
that's the problem
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:18:04AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
Hi,
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
PAGE_SIZE should not be available at all. Please use getpagesize()
instead.
While I agree,
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:44 +, Alan Cox wrote:
Adds the needed TCGETS2/TCSETS2 ioctl calls, structures, defines and the
like. Tested against the test suite and passes. Other platforms should need
roughly the same change.
should this then really be in include/asm/* ? If everyone needs the
Andrew Morton wrote:
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:22:11PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
[Adding Cc:lkml]
How about using a reduced check, as is done for fd and environ? This
would allow root-running system monitors to still
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:44 -0700, Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
Hi,
I am facing following problem and was wondering if somebody could help
me out.
Our char driver(pretty much like all other char drivers) does a
poll_wait()
you forgot to include your (full) sourcecode or a pointer
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:24 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
Hello,
is this output, normal? I meant, why counters on CPU1 is zero? Isn't this
balanced?
try running irqbalance from http://www.irqbalance.org
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On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:27 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
Is it possible to get file access time in millisecond resolution?
stat() returns time in seconds, but gettimeofday() can returns microseconds.
see the utimes() function
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:32:54AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:59:18AM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
[IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen)
Add abstraction so that the file
By adding dummy functions, wouldn't that just look awkward ?
not really; if you have a template
pm_no_suspend_needed
and
pm_no_restore_needed
functions, and just make it part of ALL device structs that don't need
it.. it's not that bad
or maybe
pm_generic_no_suspend
pm_generic_no_resume
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:34 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
I've threatened to just disable RDTSC for ring 3 before, but it'll likely
never happen because too many programs use it.
Those programs are aware that they are fiddling around with low level
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:30:55AM +, Jan Beulich wrote:
As the topic says - the goal is to support Xen. But yes, I was afraid
someone would
claim this make the code look
The only differentiator that I can think of would be latency, but that seems
to be a) covered in a different tunable, and b) probably wouldn't affect
most people enough where it matters.
and for latency the kernel already has a policy thing that tracks the
maximum latency allowed if we
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:28 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 07:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:34 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
I've threatened to just disable RDTSC for ring 3 before, but it'll
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:38 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
On 2/12/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bigger problem is getting a file system that support it.
Andi,
It seems that the part that's not returning nanosecond is in the code
below. I've modified it, and now stat() is
If there is currently no way to provide this functionality using
arp_ignore/arp_annonce/arp_filter or their friends, why is this still a
patch
And is not integrated into the mainline kernel?
eh? if you keep reading the doc it'll explain that there is arptables in
the current kernels, which
The problem is: FreeBSD is fast, but lacks of some special drivers. Linux has
all drivers but access to harddisk is unpredictable and thus unreliable!
What can I do??
there's several tunables you can do;
1) increase /sys/block/device/queue/nr_requests
the linux default is on the low
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:18 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is: FreeBSD is fast, but lacks of some special drivers. Linux
has
all drivers but access to harddisk is unpredictable and thus unreliable!
What can I do
attached find a patch that fixes the problem.
Hi,
Thank you for the quick response.
I think there is a small bug in this; at least I don't see where you
copy over the content of the fops template to the newly allocated piece
of memory...
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:58 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:00:19PM +, Alan wrote:
Open issues:
Let me add some more
Also: FPU state (especially important with the FPU and SSE memory copy
variants)
are these preserved over explicit system calls?
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if
(at least on Debian
and Mandrake there is no locked memory limit by default).
that sounds like 2 very large bugtraq-worthy bugs in these distros.. so
bad a bug that I almost find it hard to believe...
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Test the
after deinstallation of oprofile and only soft reboots (no hardware power
off)
these values STAYED (linux 48 MB/s) !! even for a brand new installation of
OpenSuSE 10.2 to another partition!
After a hardware power off everything was again like before (26 MB/s).
So now the interesting
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Dax Kelson wrote:
Are there any technical or political reasons why kernel can't change
from force off to Follow BIOS?
How would you query it? I'm not even 100% sure that you can on all
keyboards. We never
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 18:17 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:55:46PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:08:39PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
movntq instruction is supported by Geode CPU's, so use
fast_clear_page/fast_copy_page versions that
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