Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

2014-12-28 Thread Michael van Elst
jnem...@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth) writes: I understood what you meant, I was just thinking about the complexity of dealing with everything. BTW, pvgrub doesn't use PV ops. It sits in dom0 and uses regular filesystem ops to extract stuff from the domU's disk. That sounds like a mixup.

Re: NPF on domU - more clarity required

2014-12-28 Thread Justin Cormack
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: John Nemeth jnem...@cue.bc.ca writes: On Dec 27, 10:56am, Greg Troxel wrote: One option would be to turn /boot into something that works like pvgrub. This shouldn't actually be that hard. This is something that I

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Björn Johannesson
Hi. Actually no pcmcia cards worked on this machine. Tried wi(4) and ne(4) also. So after talking with Michael van Elst on IRCnet I found pr #32327 and #32328. Adding options RBUS_IO_BASE=0xa00 options RBUS_IO_SIZE=0x0ff made everything work as it should. Having these (commented out) in amd64

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Having these (commented out) in amd64 and i386 GENERIC would have simplified this enormously. With a suitable comment ofc. Something like # Uncomment if pcmcia cards do not attach #options RBUS_IO_BASE=0xa00 #options RBUS_IO_SIZE=0x0ff I can see your point, but if every workaround

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread David Brownlee
On 28 December 2014 at 16:48, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Having these (commented out) in amd64 and i386 GENERIC would have simplified this enormously. With a suitable comment ofc. Something like # Uncomment if pcmcia cards do not attach #options RBUS_IO_BASE=0xa00

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
David Brownlee a...@absd.org writes: Would it make sense to have a known set of overrides for RBUS_IO_BASE and PCIC_ISA_ALLOC_IOBASE? Even if it is keyed by something like machdep.dmi.system-{vendor,product,version} or similar, it would be nice to be able to get it right automatically in a

Re: compact flash in pcmcia slot

2014-12-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Björn Johannesson rherdw...@yahoo.com writes: Also, see cardbus(4) and pcmcia(4). Similar issues are documented (based on Thinkpad 600 and 600E!). Yes. However RBUS_IO_BASE and RBUS_IO_SIZE are not documented anywhere as far as I can see. Only RBUS_MIN_START. So it should go in

Re: viaide1: channel 0: reset failed for drive 0

2014-12-28 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 01:41:33PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 02:29:47PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: Scan the FreeBSD driver's CVS history, to see if you can find a commit that looks relevant. Will do. I'll compare FreeBSD's driver to NetBSD's as well. I

Re: viaide1: channel 0: reset failed for drive 0

2014-12-28 Thread John Nemeth
On Dec 28, 6:03pm, Stephen Fisher wrote: } On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 01:41:33PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote: } On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 02:29:47PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: } } Scan the FreeBSD driver's CVS history, to see if you can find a } commit that looks relevant. } } Will do.