Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Theo de Raadt wrote: Review the lines that dmassage has commented-out. You can fairly safely remove unused drivers for network/scsi/audio controllers/USB devices, but other drivers/pseudo-devices are more likely to give problems. Trimming out devices (especially some scsi and nic drivers)

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 19:28, Riccardo Mottola wrote: If it is not broken don't fix it: fine, but it still can be made user-friendly, e.g. by marking certain commented out devices as to review or by not commenting them out at all if they are known or something like that. Or perhaps a

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 19:28, Riccardo Mottola wrote: If it is not broken don't fix it: fine, but it still can be made user-friendly, e.g. by marking certain commented out devices as to review or by not commenting them out at all if they are known or something like that. Or perhaps a

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-02 Thread Evan Root
Riccardo, How much memory does the Omni 800 have right now? Evan Root, CCNA On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.orgwrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014, at 06:17 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: I think dmassage being unmaintained for 12 years, and this issue just coming up

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-12-25, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi, prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. I used the

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 2013-12-25, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: Hi, prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. I used the

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-01 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014, at 06:17 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: I think dmassage being unmaintained for 12 years, and this issue just coming up now, probably says a lot about that type of person. It's a type of person who can't fix dmassage, and then, sends us a mail. Sorry, but it's the truth. Very

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2014-01-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014, at 06:17 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: I think dmassage being unmaintained for 12 years, and this issue just coming up now, probably says a lot about that type of person. It's a type of person who can't fix dmassage, and then, sends us a mail. Sorry, but it's the truth. Very

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Brett Mahar wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:42:24 +0100 Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: From http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why : You will not get any support from developers That's absolutely useful information :) One always politely asks for help though, What

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, nobody has a clue? The only definition I could find is in mpbiosvar.h and for sure mpbios.c uses it (malloc), this is why I enabled mpbios. what else could it be? I also tried removing my previous build directory, without success. Riccardo Riccardo Mottola wrote: Shawn K. Quinn

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-28 Thread Brett Mahar
On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:42:24 +0100 Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: | Hi, | | nobody has a clue? The only definition I could find is in mpbiosvar.h | and for sure mpbios.c uses it (malloc), this is why I enabled mpbios. | | what else could it be? I also tried removing my

dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. I used the generated config fil, except that I enabled a couple of more PCMCIA

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-25 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013, at 08:25 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. I used the

Re: dmassage - openbsd 5.4 build failure

2013-12-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Wed, Dec 25, 2013, at 08:25 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, prompted by the quest of a smaller kernel on my old OmniBook 800 (for which memory modules are harder to find than a standard laptop), I tried my luck with dmassage against a stock GENERIC 5.4 kernel conf. I