Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: Preserving the complete merge history does indeed make repeated merges simpler, but it builds up complex meta data, which has to be managed forever. I doubt that this is really an advantage in the long term. I expect that we were better off serializing changesets in the main

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: Please show me how you would do a binary search with arch. I don't really like the arch model, it's far too restrictive and it's jumping through hoops to get to an acceptable speed. What I expect from a SCM is that it maintains both a version index of the directory structure

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-09 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: It seems you exported the complete parent information and this is exactly the nitty-gritty I was whining about and which is not available via bkcvs or bkweb and it's the most crucial information to make the bk data useful outside of bk. Larry was previously very clear about

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Tupshin Harper
Patrick McFarland wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:08 pm, Larry McVoy wrote: Something that unintentionally started a flamewar. Well, we just went through another round of 'BK sucks' and 'BK sucks, we need to switch to something else'. Sans the flamewar, are there any options? CVS

Re: [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - AGP bus/phys cleanups

2005-03-16 Thread Tupshin Harper
Paul Mackerras wrote: Rik van Riel writes: Thing is, the rest of the kernel uses virt_to_phys for two different things. Only one of them has to do with the real physical address, the other is about getting the page frame number. So fix the places that are using virt_to_phys to get the

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Tupshin Harper
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * hardware firewall -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the hardware IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)

Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

2005-02-17 Thread Tupshin Harper
Patrick McFarland wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:08 pm, Larry McVoy wrote: Something that unintentionally started a flamewar. Well, we just went through another round of 'BK sucks' and 'BK sucks, we need to switch to something else'. Sans the flamewar, are there any options? CVS

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: Preserving the complete merge history does indeed make repeated merges simpler, but it builds up complex meta data, which has to be managed forever. I doubt that this is really an advantage in the long term. I expect that we were better off serializing changesets in the main

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-08 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: Please show me how you would do a binary search with arch. I don't really like the arch model, it's far too restrictive and it's jumping through hoops to get to an acceptable speed. What I expect from a SCM is that it maintains both a version index of the directory structure

Re: Kernel SCM saga..

2005-04-09 Thread Tupshin Harper
Roman Zippel wrote: It seems you exported the complete parent information and this is exactly the "nitty-gritty" I was "whining" about and which is not available via bkcvs or bkweb and it's the most crucial information to make the bk data useful outside of bk. Larry was previously very clear

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1

Re: [PATCH] Xen/i386 cleanups - AGP bus/phys cleanups

2005-03-16 Thread Tupshin Harper
Paul Mackerras wrote: Rik van Riel writes: Thing is, the rest of the kernel uses virt_to_phys for two different things. Only one of them has to do with the real physical address, the other is about getting the page frame number. So fix the places that are using virt_to_phys to get the

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

2005-03-24 Thread Tupshin Harper
Arjan van de Ven wrote: * "hardware firewall" -- sounds silly. Pretty sure Linux doesn't support it in any case. probably just one of those things implemented in the binary drivers in software, just like the "hardware" IDE raid is most of the time (3ware being the positive exception there)