Re: Another kvm user can go away?

2016-12-31 Thread Paul Goyette
I've posted a final draft of these changes at [1]. Please review and comment as appropriate. I'll plan on committing the kernel changes within the next day or so. [1] http://www.netbsd.org/~pgoyette/my_vmstat +--+--++ | Paul

Re: i386: kernel overflow in syscall

2016-12-31 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 29/12/2016 à 09:47, Maxime Villard a écrit : Patch [4] was completely wrong - it increased the size of the copy. Checking the max size (as commited) is ok though. Yes, I later figured out it was wrong, and that's precisely why I ended up committing a different patch - without sending an upda

Re: History of disklables

2016-12-31 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote: > > You must be misremembering something. > Looks like it. > > So disklables are a BSD thing, not a DEC thing? Ultrix has a disklabel format, and I've moved drives from VAX to MIPS Ultrix systems, so the answer really is "it depends". I

Re: Using SPI devices from userspace on the RPI, or from anything NetBSD for that matter?

2016-12-31 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:47:07AM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: > Example config(5) file addition: > > spigen0 at spi1 slave 0 > Also useful: device-majorspigen char 159spigen and then you can use: # mknod spigen0 c spigen 0 Jonathan Kolasch

Re: Using SPI devices from userspace on the RPI, or from anything NetBSD for that matter?

2016-12-31 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
Yeah... finally managed to find a moment to package them up: https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jakllsch/20161231/spigen-20161231.tar.gz (this tarball may also be found attached) Example config(5) file addition: spigen0 at spi1 slave 0 Included in the tarball is an example that attempts

Re: Making a BSD system more braille friendly

2016-12-31 Thread Michael
Hello, On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 15:03:08 +0100 (CET) Enrico Mioso wrote: > Hello to all of you reading this message. > > Sorry for my possibly ugly message: english isn't my native language. > My name is Enrico: and I am a blind computer user. I currently am > using Linux, with the help of a softwar

Making a BSD system more braille friendly

2016-12-31 Thread Enrico Mioso
Hello to all of you reading this message. Sorry for my possibly ugly message: english isn't my native language. My name is Enrico: and I am a blind computer user. I currently am using Linux, with the help of a software called BRLTTY (of which NetBSD has a port): so I can read what's on the scre