On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
That's not the point of sendfile(). The point of sendfile() is to be
faster than the _combination_ of:
addr = mmap(file, ...len...);
write(fd, addr, len);
or
read(file, userdata, len);
write(fd, userdata, len);
And boy is it
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Martin Mares wrote:
I don't have the ServerWorks chipset documentation at hand, but I think your
patch is wrong -- it doesn't make any sense to scan a bus _range_. The registers
0x44 and 0x45 are probably ID's of two
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Felix von Leitner wrote:
What is missing here is a good authoritative web ressource that tells
people which NIC to buy.
I have a tulip NIC because a few years ago that apparently was the NIC
of choice. It has good multicast (which is important to me), but AFAIK
it has
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote:
Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back,
which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation
info on ALL drives.
Maybe a compile option could help...
kernel parameter
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, James Sutherland wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Parity/ECC on main memory is reported by the chipset and needs seperate
drivers or apps to handle this
Yes - MCE only covers errors in the CPU's cache, IIRC? (Is there still an
NMI on main memory parity
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
It would be great to see a table of ReiserFS/XFS/Ext2+index performance
results. Well, to make it really fair it should be Ext3+index so I'd
better add 'backport the patch to 2.2' or 'bug Stephen and friends to
hurry up' to my to-do list.
Is the
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
grep MAJOR lilo-21.4.4/*|wc -l
323
Also hdparm
raidtools
psmisc
mtools
mt-st
gpm
joystick
so we now have a list of stuff that needs to be fixed 8)
or at least, a cross section sampling of stuff to design a new API for.
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, James Simmons wrote:
Actually their are hotplug video cards. High end servers have hot swapable
graphcis cards. Would you want to take down a very important server
because the graphics card went dead. You pull it out and you plug a new
one in. Also their are PCMCIA video
This thread is becoming high enough volume and likely to become much more
so, perhaps a separate ml should be set up for it? linux-device-management
perhaps?
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
Not just crap hardware, but also vendors who refuse to release proper material
required for writing drivers. NVidia springs to my mind.
This would be a browser-busting webpage, the page would be so long...
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote:
Its what I would describe as lack of enforcement by trading standards bodies,
and I suspect what the US would call 'insufficient class action lawsuits'
What we need is a web page for listing crap hardware so less people buy
it.
And then get sued by
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
Which patch of mine did you apply? Which motherboard are you doing your
testing with?
The dual tyan presumably. Or are there others you are aware of.
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On Mon, 28 May 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
Please see the Beowulf mailing list (www.beowulf.org) - a dual athlon system
was tested there about a month ago, and various tests were collected and run.
http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/
Archives for March and April conveniently missing.
On 5 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes:
IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for internet). A
Jeff, Netware is dead. Please leave it there. IP won. The number of
new Netware Installations (as compared to existing or just
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:25:12AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
I think you mean IPX is dead. Netware *could* work over TCP or UDP.
IP is definitely king. Even micro$haft gave up on NetBEUI.
Yep, thats' what I meant. Sorry that I
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 probably the best argument for a kernel
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adrian Cox wrote:
cPCI is PCI + hotswap. Most people seem to ignore the hotswap, except at
tradeshows.
ISPs certainly don't ignore hotswap. Unfortunately, Linux does. :) :(
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
I'd disagree on the ISP thing too btw. Telcos care a lot about hotswap PCI,
but ISP services you can take a down box with a failover of a machine -
which in general is a lot easier and overall better coverage
Alan, you want an ISP to configure identical
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote:
Dan Hollis wrote:
Alan, you want an ISP to configure identical machines for linux routers
just so they can hotswap NICs? What have you been putting in your tea
lately 8)
[...]
One may have cPCI configuration with two or more NICs on each side
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote:
Dan Hollis wrote:
Easy for ethernet where you have shared media and switches, but what about
ptp synchronous serial lines? Oh dear thats a problem isnt it 8)
Not, if one have two USARTs, receivers paralleled syncronized, transmitters
wired
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I see you suggestion in the same way... If we keep the PCI device name
data around after boot, then we have a lot of kernel memory locked up
on the off chance that a HotPlug PCI device might appear for which we
need a name.
I would much prefer a
I dont know how many here read /. but recently someone's gone round
touting a new SYN defense system that he claims is better than SYNcookies.
http://grc.com/rd/NoMoreDoS2.htm
Specifically, Steve Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] claims:
QUOTE
I followed those links and read about SYN Cookies
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Russell King wrote:
Alan Cox writes:
So is there a URL with the whole discussion on. It looks like a fun read ?
Have a look at the linux-arm-kernel archive at
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/
for the thread:
Re: information request about
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, daniel sheltraw wrote:
Does anyone have a contact at Trident or one of the sound card
manufacturers using this chip that could provide the docs I need?
Trident has laid off its entire 4dwave engineering team so there is noone
left at Trident who knows anything about these
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alex Buell wrote:
Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account
yanked for abuse of mailing lists.
http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send
complaints to.
The machine's physical location is in Cary, NC. Anyone live near
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master)
you can review it at:
http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm
There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are
motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI buses.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote:
** Reply to message from James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Oct 2000
18:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots.
I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is?
I think he's confusing dualhead cards
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
Daniel Ridge writes:
I think we should instead focus our collective will on removing things
from the kernel. For years, projects like ALSA, pcmcia-cs, and VMware
ALSA: driver work gets done twice
Huh?
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
For why ide is beating scsi in this benchmark...make sure tagged queueing
is on (or increase the queue length?). For the xlog.c test posted, I would
expect scsi to get faster than ide as the size of the write increases.
I have seen that many drives
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Mordechai Ovits wrote:
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Hao Sun wrote:
From Neal Cardwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 03:08:21 -0700 (PDT)
A new TCP Vegas patch for 2.2.10/2.3.10 is available at:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jorge Nerin wrote:
Well, this is a little update to the proc.txt file, it's based in 2.2 kernel, and I
have updated it a little to the 2.4 series, I have updated all the thing I have been
told in lk, so I submit this in order to include this in the main tree in order to
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel) wrote:
What a Linux kernel compile DOESN'T test is the network interfaces and video
cards.
Kernel compile over NFS while playing unreal tournament in X ;)
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
David Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is true. What I suppose would be the solution is that if faulty
hardware is found, a reduction in performance should be made.
Finding out if you've got bad RAM might take a few hours running mem86. Not
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Thanks to some nice people in #NVIDIA I found what seems to be a
solution; compile with processor type as "K6". No segfaults, lost
terminfo or disabled consoles.
So are there issues with the K7 processor code? Bleh, never mind, I have
no idea what I
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:56 Dan Hollis wrote:
Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your
filesystems broken.
Not so broken. I use it under SMP 2.2.18-pre23 and works fine.
Try unreal tournament. Locks up hard
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote:
Gnea wrote:
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366
[snip]
Have you tried updating the bios on the bp6? This solved a LOT of
problems for me, and afaik, ru is the latest...
RU
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Richard Torkar wrote:
Dan Hollis wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote:
Gnea wrote:
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366
[snip]
Have you tried updating the bios on the bp6
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
Ditto, we have an adsl driver that we setup by overloading various otherwise
unused options in ifconfig (mem_start, io_addr etc) to do this. Cheaper and
faster than writing yet another ioctl using device configuration agent, but
distasteful non the
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor
drives aren't quite safe with DMA.
Depends on the controller. Maxtor drives play badly with Highpoint
controllers, but are OK with Promise.
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
Nope you have a chipset that is designed wrong.
Who makes an on-board chipset (not southbridge) which is designed right?
Highpoint makes HPT370, but after HPT366 fiasco I'm not sure I trust them
anymore...
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
like i said, their code has worked well for me, but they seem intent
on keeping it as obscure as possible... (i remember someone posted to
No idea on the sensors stuff
Whats keeping lm78 from being integrated into 2.4?
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On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16 Dec 2000, Rico Tudor wrote:
Does anyone have reference material for the ServerWorks northbridge?
I want to add their chipsets to my ECC-monitoring utility, but their
web site is little more than marketing drivel. Plus, they don't respond
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
It's a combination of chipset and drive that causes the problems. I've
been using ata66 with the same controller on a different drive
(FUJITSU MPE3136AT) for some time now, and it's been rock solid. It's only
the IBM DTLA drive that's been a problem
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
Too bad Maxtor is still broken with hpt366...
Also, using CDROM on hpt366 is recipe for disaster...
Does the Maxtor and/or CDROM problems have anything to do with udma66? Ie
if you can test, can you please
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
Also, using CDROM on hpt366 is recipe for disaster...
ATAPI in general actually, and as I understand it only with DMA.
Nope I can blow it up with PIO also...
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Aloni wrote:
without breaking anything. It also reports of such calls by using printk.
Get real.
Why do you always have to be insulting alex? Sheesh.
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On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Dan Aloni wrote:
Anyway, while it is agreed that you can't completely eliminate exploits,
it is recommended that, it should be at least harder to create them, maybe
it can even minimize the will to write them.
The argument against these sort of protection mechanisms seems
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote:
Your comparing actual security with stack guarding? Stack guarding mearly
makes the attack diffrent.. rootkits are already available to defeat it.
url?
Ugh do you have
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
or .br. I'm fully in favor of an
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological
barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the
majority. This is not acceptable.
See Rowan v. United States Post Office.
*Your* right to free speech stops at
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:24:16PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological
barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matt Beland wrote:
On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:24, Dan Hollis wrote:
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological
barriers
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
Dan Hollis wrote:
See Rowan v. United States Post Office.
Why necessarily should I care about United States Post Office
or United States in general ?
I suspect canadian law has similar precedents.
*Your* right to free speech stops at *my
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
so my take is unless you explicitly use hotplug devices (I wasn't), that
it is much safer to unload the driver, unattach/attach scsi devices, and
then reload the driver (which will scan the scsi bus for devices), which
you need modules for.
I don't
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
Seriously though, you can't depreciate a term for referring to a type of
bus without providing some other term to describe said bus.
You need to distinguish between SCSI-the-protocol and
SCSI-the-physical-layer. The term "SCSI" alone is simply too
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
I suspect homepna is dead to be honest.
Apparently its competing rather well with DSL for MDU deployments (eg
hotels, apartment complexes)
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
:-) I think sendfile() should also have its logical extensions:
receivefile(). I dont know how the HPUX implementation works, but in
Linux, right now it's only possible to sendfile() from a file to a socket.
The logical extension of this is to allow
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
y'know our pals have patented it?
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05845280__
Bad faith patent? Actionable, treble damages?
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a
file (from the page cache), nothing more.
Ok in any case, it would be nice to have a generic sendfile() which works
on any fd's - socket
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
Just extend sendfile to allow any fd to any fd. sendfile already
does file-socket and file-file. It only needs to be extended to
do socket-file.
This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a
file (from the page cache),
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
TUX modules are kernel modules (I mean you have to write kernel space code for
doing TUX ftp). Don't you agree that zero-copy sendfile like ftp serving would
be able to perform equally well too?
For this to bw useful for ftp we need a sendfile()
Anyone having a problem with the ADMtek Comet TX lockups, please contact
me. I believe I have found a fix but need some people to test it.
Details of this bug can be found here:
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-tulip-bug/2000-Oct/0012.html
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote:
Dan Hollis wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote:
Ok, something happend to the tulip driver in the recent testN kernels.
I haven't found a reason why it happens and I can't easily reproduce it
but what happens is noted on the subject line
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
And they don't solve the problem David was talking about. There is a short
deeply unpleasant scream from some soundcards on reload because the card init
and the 0.5-1 second later aumix run dont stop the feedback loop fast enough
when a mic is plugged in
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote:
there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your
system, can make it almost impossible to detect that your system has been
compramised. with module support disabled this isn't possible.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Christer Weinigel wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote:
there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your
system, can make it almost impossible to detect
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk...
Cute. And when (not if) we get hit by new bug in the net/*/* you will drive
to the location of said router to upgrade the thing.
No, post/email a floppy to tech who swaps the floppy and reboots router.
-Dan
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the
cmos battery.
Checkmate. :-)
Only if you run your kernel XIP from the flash. If you load it into RAM,
it's still possible
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote:
Someone wrote:
So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order
from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want
to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe?
Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Charl P. Botha wrote:
I have removed this code and everything is now fine on my system. The
problem is that the 686A and 686B have the same PCI IDs, else I would have
submitted a patch.
686a is rev 0x10 - 0x2f, 686b is rev 0x40 - 0x4f.
The fixup code should take this
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Seth Goldberg wrote:
I Should clarify that this is the KX133A chipset.
No such thing. Surely you mean KT133A. No X.
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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Seth Goldberg wrote:
The other thing i was gunna try is to dump my chipset registers using
WPCREDIT and WPCRSET and compare them with other people on this list
why resort to silly windows tools, when lspci under Linux does it for you?
Because lspci does not
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Simon Richter wrote:
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Bene, Martin wrote:
Definitely not caused by:
Bad Rams, mb-chipset.
Erm, it was bad RAM everytime it happened to me. On standard PCs, you
don't see those because you don't have ECC and the error is simply not
detected.
So a
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Larry McVoy wrote:
which is a text version of the paper I mentioned before. The basic
message of the paper is that it really doesn't help much to have things
like ECC unless you can be sure that 100% of the rest of your system
has similar checks.
UDMA has crc, scsi has
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote:
I *do* hate silent data corruption :()
An integrity loopback device would certainly detect silent corruption.
Eg a loopback which CRC's all blocks read/written and screams loudly if
the CRC fails.
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Does anyone have the ALi magik1 northbridge datasheet? (ALi M1647)
The pdf documentation files on the ALi web site are just sales
brochures.
Yes, i've already asked ALi repeatedly in emails and filled out the
online datasheet request forms and they have responded with deafening
silence.
-Dan
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$-ware you are
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Justin Guyett wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
As demonstrated many times over the past several years, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to buy a PC without bundled m$-ware. Even if you
dont use m$-ware you
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, 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 Thu, 5 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can someone please recommend a motherboard that can carry four CPUs,
either AMD or Intel (but other than Pentium III Xeon 700 Mhz) capable of
running Linux?
So you want a quad-pentiumpro-200 do you? :D
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote:
The biggest thing that the linux community does to stifle innovation is to
bash commercial vendors trying to make a profit by whining endlessly about
"sourceless" distributions and recommending "open-source" solutions even
when they are wholly inferior.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote:
I did some research on the patent database and found nothing regarding such
a patent. There's patent on word processors (not the concept but related to)
and uses tab on the description...and that patent is from 1980.
You know XOR is patented
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
But wasn't that Xerox that had that?
US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
Yeah, the same ones that screwed us over with the compression patent
that shot .gif images
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David Relson wrote:
At 08:52 PM 2/16/01, you wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR).
But wasn't that Xerox that had that?
US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc.
The patent
Kernel 2.4.1-ac15, 3ware driver.
512mb ram, amd thunderbird 1000, 3ware escalade 6400 with 2 x 45gb IBM
in raid5 mode.
'iozone 512 16384' is a guaranteed, repeatable way to totally kill this
machine.
The kernel starts spitting out a zillion of
"Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers"
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In 1984 I received a demand letter for $10,000 from the above
referenced company as a unlimited license for use of a that
patent and another patent.
At the time I ran a company that made graphics cards for IBM PCs.
Did you ignore it or did you pay
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About a year later I was talking with a group of business owners who had
also received a similar demand letter. Some paid, some didn't. Those
who didn't pay were not pursued other than the occasional copy of the
demand letter.
Probably they did
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest
embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law.
As a person with a some decades of experience
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil
at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor).
Actually, it's because we've made it illegal
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael B. Allen wrote:
And why do I have 8 cdroms?
kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
kernel: scsi : 1 host.
kernel: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210A Rev: 1.07
kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
Matthew Wilcox writes:
people who can afford 2TB of disc can afford to buy a 64-bit processor.
This whole "64-bit" fallacy has got to stop.
Indeed.
Now it is "anybody who needs 2TB disk should use a 64-bit CPU", soon
to be wrong.
It was already
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
c) Make sure chown/chmod/link/symlink/rename/rm etc does the right thing,
without the need for "tar hacks" or anything equivalently gross.
write-through filesystem, like overlaying a r/w ext2 on top of an iso9660
fs.
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Some of the products seem so new that their manufactuors have little to no
information available about them on their webpage. One that I found, had
conflicting specs and claimed to only have a 32kbyte recieve buffer.
Thats the hardware FIFO size.
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
Our (VA's) kernel includes a Vegas patch:
ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/people/chip/linux-vegas-v2-patch-2.2
tcp vegas performs very badly for me on asymmetric links (e.g. adsl),
about 50% performance loss vs non-vegas.
-Dan
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
On 04.05 Miao Qingjun wrote:
Can anybody help me?
How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230
mips cpu?
http://www.uclinux.org/
rm5230 isnt a microcontroller.
-Dan
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
If the router claims to be RFC compliant then you may want to investigate
trading standards bodies. In the UK at least things like the advertising
standards agency get upset by people who claim standards compliance, are shown
not to be compliant and are
I don't know if anyone noticed, but the supposed udma100 fix has been
posted here:
http://www.viahardware.com/download/viatweak.shtm
At the bottom of the page.
Technical discussion of the workaround (in german):
http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html
-Dan
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
Technical discussion of the workaround (in german):
http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html
This was sent to me the other day, is this waht you are talking about?
Yes, is any of the information
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
Random oopses normally indicate faulty board cpu or ram (and the fault may
even just be overheating or dimms not in the sockets cleanly). I doubt its
the board design or model that is the problem, you probably jut have a faulty
component somewhere if its
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