Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-17 Thread James Bruce
Chris Friesen wrote: William Lee Irwin III wrote: The sorts of like explicit decisions I'd like to be made for these are: (1) In a mixture of tasks with varying nice numbers, a given nice number corresponds to some share of CPU bandwidth. Implementations should not have the freedom to

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-18 Thread James Bruce
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:59:02PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:32:56PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: I'm working with the following suggestion: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:07:49AM -0400, James Bruce wrote: Nonlinear is a must IMO. I

Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff

2007-04-01 Thread James Bruce
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Have the Linux kernel set a new VGA palette for the first 16 colors. The new values reduce the saturation (white component) and therefore increase contrast. snip While the patch seems fine, this comment is not correct. The patch is decreasing the *brightness* in order

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-04 Thread James Bruce
Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Daniel Hazelton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fact remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of copyright license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-25 Thread James Bruce
Robert Hancock wrote: Casey Dahlin wrote: Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, giving a handy physical indicator that

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread James Bruce
While I agree with your overall sentiment, please compare apples to apples regarding the license. You said: Larry McVoy wrote: I don't come here every month and ask for the GPL to be removed from some driver, that's essentially what you are doing and I think pretty much everyone is sick of it.

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread James Bruce
Roman, please give up on importing 100% of the history. There's no point arguing something if you already know what the other person's answer will be. Larry will not change his mind under any currently foreseeable circumstances. Yes, there is meta-data lockin whether anyone at BitMover will

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread James Bruce
I agree with this 100%, and this is exactly the same conclusion we came to in our research lab. Tom Felker wrote: I really think the fewer restrictions you put on BK's use, the less likely it will be copied. When the open source community copies something, it's not out of a desire to screw

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-04 Thread James Bruce
As a final update, I added the third card to another machine and that doesn't work either. So after trying 3 kernels on two machines with either one or two cards, and trying the ~120 different card options for bttv to no avail, I'll just guess this card isn't actually supported right now.

Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-25 Thread James Bruce
Hi I've read elsewhere that the following message: tveeprom(bttv internal): Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)? Means that a bttv card is dead. If so, then I've apparently found a way to kill bttv cards in vanilla 2.6.10. They worked fine a few days ago, but after running some cleaned up

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread James Bruce
are actually 1 year old, but they sat in a running Linux machine without the bttv drivers loaded. They died after 3 days of working flawlessly in a new machine where they were actually being used. Gerd Knorr wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:57:49PM -0500, James Bruce wrote: Hi I've read elsewhere

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread James Bruce
Gerd Knorr wrote: James Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, are there any theories as to why it would work flawlessly, then after a hard lockup (due to what I think is a buggy V4L2 application), that the cards no longer work? No idea why the eeprom doesn't respond any more. Maybe it's really

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread James Bruce
might be triggered. - Jim Bruce Bill Davidsen wrote: James Bruce wrote: Well, are there any theories as to why it would work flawlessly, then after a hard lockup (due to what I think is a buggy V4L2 application), that the cards no longer work? That was with 2.6.10, but after they started

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread James Bruce
in finding it. Gerd Knorr wrote: James Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you could suggest a very well tested kernel for bttv (2.6.9?), What do you expect? With just one single report and not remotely being clear what exactly caused it ... It goes further than that though; I have about 3+ people

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread James Bruce
system. - Jim Bruce Paulo Marques wrote: James Bruce wrote: [...] The card= option didn't help in my case since my card is not in the list; For thess cards we went off the reccomendation of other people doing machine vision in Linux; Next time I guess we'll go name brand again... I think you

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread James Bruce
I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that Linux violates more than 283 patents. Regardless of the truth to that study, this is IBM's way of stating that the 60 that they hold will not be used against Linux or other open source projects. Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon,

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Pavel Machek wrote: First numbers were 0.5W on idle system; that shows what kind of powersaving can be done. Powersaving is no longer possible when artsd is not running, but that should not be used as argument against it. It was an idle system with no display, zero daemons running, and the

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Lee Revell wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: [But we probably want to enable ACPI and cpufreq by default, because that matches what 99% of users will use.] Sorry, this is just ridiculous. You're saying 99% of Linux installations are laptops? Bullshit. I believe

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Pavel Machek wrote: Then the second test was probably flawed, possibly because we have some more work to do. No display is irrelevant, HZ=100 will still save 0.5W with running display. Spinning disk also does not produce CPU load (and we *will* want to have disk spinned down). No daemons... if

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Lee Revell wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: defconfig on i386 is Linus' configuration. Maybe server-config and laptop-config would be good idea... Um, what about those things called desktops? They're like a laptop but with reasonable hard drive speeds and

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-01 Thread James Bruce
David Weinehall wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:23:54PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines of Get bent? Calm down. Yes, Lee needs to chill a bit. I'll hopefully

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-01 Thread James Bruce
Theodore Ts'o wrote: On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:18:18PM -0400, James Bruce wrote: The tradeoff is a realistic 4.4% power savings vs a 300% increase in the minimum sleep period. A user will see zero power savings if they have a USB mouse (probably 99% of desktops). On top of that, we can

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-02 Thread James Bruce
Stephen Clark wrote: Maybe new desktop systems - but what about the tens of millions of old systems that don't. If it's an old system, it probably doesn't have working ACPI C-states though. Without that, low HZ does not save you anything. I should have said: 99% of desktops with the

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-03 Thread James Bruce
(Sorry all, but after receiving about 5 similar messages I'm going to make one last reply.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, my understanding was that when we properly support usb suspend, this won't be an issue anyway for much usb hardware. I think it's possible to put some mice to sleep when

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-05 Thread James Bruce
Ondrej Zary wrote: James Bruce wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Maybe new desktop systems - but what about the tens of millions of old systems that don't. If it's an old system, it probably doesn't have working ACPI C-states though. Without that, low HZ does not save you anything. I should

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread James Bruce
Linus Torvalds wrote: [ snip ] I consider dual-licensing unlikely (and technically quite hard), but at least _possible_ in theory. I have yet to see any actual *reasons* for licensing under the GPLv3, though. [ snip ] One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread James Bruce
Jesper Juhl wrote: One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at least started to dual-license their submissions. I.e. if instead of GPL version 2, one could say GPL version 2 or GPL version 3. It isn't the same thing as the problematic GPL version 2 or later,

Re: TUX2 filesystem

2007-06-21 Thread James Bruce
Hi, Ph. Marek wrote: in Oct 2000 there's been some discussion Tux2 - evil patents sighted (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0343.html), and in Aug 2002 (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0332.html) Daniel wrote It's well down my list of priorities

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread James Bruce
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Roman Zippel noticed inconsistency of the wmult table. wmult[16] has a missing digit. [snip] While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. - Jim - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread James Bruce
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * James Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. yes, the weight multiplier 1.25, but the actual

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread James Bruce
While I agree with your overall sentiment, please compare apples to apples regarding the license. You said: Larry McVoy wrote: I don't come here every month and ask for the GPL to be removed from some driver, that's essentially what you are doing and I think pretty much everyone is sick of it.

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-09 Thread James Bruce
Roman, please give up on importing 100% of the history. There's no point arguing something if you already know what the other person's answer will be. Larry will not change his mind under any currently foreseeable circumstances. Yes, there is "meta-data lockin" whether anyone at BitMover

Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-15 Thread James Bruce
I agree with this 100%, and this is exactly the same conclusion we came to in our research lab. Tom Felker wrote: I really think the fewer restrictions you put on BK's use, the less likely it will be copied. When the open source community copies something, it's not out of a desire to screw

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-04 Thread James Bruce
As a final update, I added the third card to another machine and that doesn't work either. So after trying 3 kernels on two machines with either one or two cards, and trying the ~120 different card options for bttv to no avail, I'll just guess this card isn't actually supported right now.

Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-25 Thread James Bruce
Hi I've read elsewhere that the following message: "tveeprom(bttv internal): Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?" Means that a bttv card is dead. If so, then I've apparently found a way to kill bttv cards in vanilla 2.6.10. They worked fine a few days ago, but after running some "cleaned up"

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread James Bruce
are actually >1 year old, but they sat in a running Linux machine without the bttv drivers loaded. They died after 3 days of working flawlessly in a new machine where they were actually being used. Gerd Knorr wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:57:49PM -0500, James Bruce wrote: Hi I've read elsewh

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread James Bruce
Gerd Knorr wrote: James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well, are there any theories as to why it would work flawlessly, then after a hard lockup (due to what I think is a buggy V4L2 application), that the cards no longer work? No idea why the eeprom doesn't respond any more. Maybe it's

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-02-28 Thread James Bruce
milar enough to bttv chips that the same problem might be triggered. - Jim Bruce Bill Davidsen wrote: James Bruce wrote: Well, are there any theories as to why it would work flawlessly, then after a hard lockup (due to what I think is a buggy V4L2 application), that the cards no longe

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread James Bruce
in finding it. Gerd Knorr wrote: James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you could suggest a very well tested kernel for bttv (2.6.9?), What do you expect? With just one single report and not remotely being clear what exactly caused it ... It goes further than that though; I have about 3+

Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

2005-03-01 Thread James Bruce
system. - Jim Bruce Paulo Marques wrote: James Bruce wrote: [...] The card= option didn't help in my case since my card is not in the list; For thess cards we went off the reccomendation of other people doing machine vision in Linux; Next time I guess we'll go name brand again... I think you

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Pavel Machek wrote: First numbers were 0.5W on idle system; that shows what kind of powersaving can be done. Powersaving is no longer possible when artsd is not running, but that should not be used as argument against it. It was an idle system with no display, zero daemons running, and the

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >>[But we >>probably want to enable ACPI and cpufreq by default, because that >>matches what 99% of users will use.] > > Sorry, this is just ridiculous. You're saying 99% of Linux > installations are laptops? Bullshit.

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Pavel Machek wrote: Then the second test was probably flawed, possibly because we have some more work to do. No display is irrelevant, HZ=100 will still save 0.5W with running display. Spinning disk also does not produce CPU load (and we *will* want to have disk spinned down). No daemons... if

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-31 Thread James Bruce
Lee Revell wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 23:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: defconfig on i386 is Linus' configuration. Maybe server-config and laptop-config would be good idea... Um, what about those things called "desktops"? They're like a laptop but with reasonable hard drive speeds and

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-01 Thread James Bruce
David Weinehall wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:23:54PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines of "Get bent"? Calm down. Yes, Lee needs to chill a bit. I'll

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-01 Thread James Bruce
Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:18:18PM -0400, James Bruce wrote: >>The tradeoff is a realistic 4.4% power savings vs a 300% increase in >>the minimum sleep period. A user will see zero power savings if they >>have a USB mouse (probably 99% of desktops). O

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-02 Thread James Bruce
Stephen Clark wrote: Maybe new desktop systems - but what about the tens of millions of old systems that don't. If it's an old system, it probably doesn't have working ACPI C-states though. Without that, low HZ does not save you anything. I should have said: 99% of desktops with the

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-03 Thread James Bruce
(Sorry all, but after receiving about 5 similar messages I'm going to make one last reply.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, my understanding was that when we properly support usb suspend, this won't be an issue anyway for much usb hardware. I think it's possible to put some mice to sleep when

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-08-05 Thread James Bruce
Ondrej Zary wrote: James Bruce wrote: Stephen Clark wrote: Maybe new desktop systems - but what about the tens of millions of old systems that don't. If it's an old system, it probably doesn't have working ACPI C-states though. Without that, low HZ does not save you anything. I should

Re: IBM Patents

2005-01-18 Thread James Bruce
I believe that IBM is simply responding to the recent study that "Linux violates more than 283 patents". Regardless of the truth to that study, this is IBM's way of stating that the 60 that they hold will not be used against Linux or other open source projects. Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On

Re: [PATCH 2/16] vt-pure-colors.diff

2007-04-01 Thread James Bruce
Jan Engelhardt wrote: Have the Linux kernel set a new VGA palette for the first 16 colors. The new values reduce the saturation (white component) and therefore increase contrast. While the patch seems fine, this comment is not correct. The patch is decreasing the *brightness* in order to

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-17 Thread James Bruce
Chris Friesen wrote: William Lee Irwin III wrote: The sorts of like explicit decisions I'd like to be made for these are: (1) In a mixture of tasks with varying nice numbers, a given nice number corresponds to some share of CPU bandwidth. Implementations should not have the freedom to

Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

2007-04-18 Thread James Bruce
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:59:02PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:32:56PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: I'm working with the following suggestion: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:07:49AM -0400, James Bruce wrote: Nonlinear is a must IMO. I

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread James Bruce
Linus Torvalds wrote: [ snip ] I consider dual-licensing unlikely (and technically quite hard), but at least _possible_ in theory. I have yet to see any actual *reasons* for licensing under the GPLv3, though. [ snip ] One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-10 Thread James Bruce
Jesper Juhl wrote: One thing that would make that easier in the future is if contributers at least started to dual-license their submissions. I.e. if instead of "GPL version 2", one could say "GPL version 2 or GPL version 3". It isn't the same thing as the problematic "GPL version 2 or later",

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread James Bruce
Thomas Gleixner wrote: Roman Zippel noticed inconsistency of the wmult table. wmult[16] has a missing digit. [snip] While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. - Jim - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] CFS: Fix missing digit off in wmult table

2007-07-16 Thread James Bruce
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * James Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While we're at it, isn't the comment above the wmult table incorrect? The multiplier is 1.25, meaning a 25% change per nice level, not 10%. yes, the weight multiplier 1.25, bu

Re: TUX2 filesystem

2007-06-21 Thread James Bruce
Hi, Ph. Marek wrote: in Oct 2000 there's been some discussion "Tux2 - evil patents sighted" (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0343.html), and in Aug 2002 (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0332.html) Daniel wrote It's well down my list of priorities

Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount

2007-08-25 Thread James Bruce
Robert Hancock wrote: Casey Dahlin wrote: Most USB keys nowadays have a small LED somewhere inside of them that lights up when they are plugged in. On a windows box, the key is lit up whenever it is mounted, and as soon as it is unmounted it turns off, giving a handy physical indicator that

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread James Bruce
Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The fact remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of copyright license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the