Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Porter
> But that foregoes the point that the code is far more complex and harder to > make 'obviously correct', a concept that *does* translate well to userspace. One point is that 'obviously correct' is much harder to 'prove' for threads (or processes with shared memory) than you might think. With a

Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Porter
But that foregoes the point that the code is far more complex and harder to make 'obviously correct', a concept that *does* translate well to userspace. One point is that 'obviously correct' is much harder to 'prove' for threads (or processes with shared memory) than you might think. With a

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Porter
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > christophe barbe wrote: > >> Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during >the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you >can switch to the classic console

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Porter
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: christophe barbe wrote: Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you can switch to the classic console when you

RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Porter
> however, this brings up an interesting question: what happens if two disks > (presumably from two different machines) have the same disk label? what > happens then? for instance, i have several linux machines both at my > workplace and my home. if for some reason one of these machines dies due

RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Mike Porter
however, this brings up an interesting question: what happens if two disks (presumably from two different machines) have the same disk label? what happens then? for instance, i have several linux machines both at my workplace and my home. if for some reason one of these machines dies due to

Re: DMA and my Maxtor drive

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Porter
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: > At 06:43 PM 10/20/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I get this when DMA is enabled: > > > >Oct 20 15:39:07 cr753963-a kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA > >Oct 20 15:39:07 cr753963-a kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x6e { > >DriveReady DeviceFault

Re: DMA and my Maxtor drive

2000-10-23 Thread Mike Porter
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: At 06:43 PM 10/20/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this when DMA is enabled: Oct 20 15:39:07 cr753963-a kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA Oct 20 15:39:07 cr753963-a kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x6e { DriveReady DeviceFault DataRequest

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Porter
> > But in the end, maybe the rule to only use hand power makes sense. Not > > because hand-power is _better_. But because it brings in the kind of > > people who love to work with their hands, who love to _feel_ the wood with > > their fingers, and because of that their holes are not always

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Porter
But in the end, maybe the rule to only use hand power makes sense. Not because hand-power is _better_. But because it brings in the kind of people who love to work with their hands, who love to _feel_ the wood with their fingers, and because of that their holes are not always perfectly

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Porter
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > For things like driver debugging its the only way to work. Hardware simply does > > not work like the manual says and no amount of Zen contemplation will ever > > make you at one with a 3c905B ethernet card. > >

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Porter
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: For things like driver debugging its the only way to work. Hardware simply does not work like the manual says and no amount of Zen contemplation will ever make you at one with a 3c905B ethernet card. This is