Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread maya
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:57:54PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote: > Should I re-start a fight about dropping COMPAT_SVR4? Because I keep finding > bugs, and it's becoming tiring. Over time I've come across at least a good > dozen of bugs in it, by just grepping through the tree searching for unrelate

re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread matthew green
> It's simply not useful any more. can we refrain from making comments that may not be true? no one here actually knows the truth of this. it may be that once particular binary someone uses does still work. just because there are bugs in it does not make it "broken" in the sense it can't be use

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Jaromír DoleÄ ek wrote: >Le mar. 18 déc. 2018 à 13:16, Maxime Villard a écrit : >> It is clear that COMPAT_SVR4 is completely buggy, but to be clear on the >> use of the code: > >+1 to removal for COMPAT_SVR4, there is always attic. > >I remember I've been also doing some mechan

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Klaus Klein
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 06:20:12PM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > thor...@me.com (Jason Thorpe) writes: > > > AFAIK, none of our m68k platforms ever had a "native" SVR4. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix A donation of which is what made COMPAT_SVR4 on m68k possible. :-) Not that I'd

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Michael van Elst
thor...@me.com (Jason Thorpe) writes: > AFAIK, none of our m68k platforms ever had a "native" SVR4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix Also some hardware running NetBSD/mvme68k had a native SVR4. AFAIK mac68k only got up to SVR3. The compat code was also necessary to run some m68k SunOS bi

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On Dec 18, 2018, at 12:39 AM, Maxime Villard wrote: > > I've made one: > > http://wiki.netbsd.org/attic_museum/ > > I took the entries from src/doc/CHANGES. This is great, thanks. -- thorpej

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Jason Thorpe
> On Dec 18, 2018, at 4:16 AM, Maxime Villard wrote: > > Judging by the configuration files: > > * COMPAT_SVR4 is available on sparc, sparc64, *68k, sun2, sun3, atari, > hp300, amiga. This is in terms of files.svr4 inclusions. I suspect that > a part of these inclusions were added automat

Re: Importing libraries for the kernel

2018-12-18 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 08:53:54AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > They did _not_ cause measureable performance problems of any kind, and > though it is theoretically possible to do this sort of thing via a > tightly-protected userspace helper process, I prototyped that too and > it gets very u

Re: Importing libraries for the kernel

2018-12-18 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 03:19:45PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:07:23PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:30 AM Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:58:21AM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: > > > > Before that, I want to a

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Jaromír Doleček
Le mar. 18 déc. 2018 à 13:16, Maxime Villard a écrit : > It is clear that COMPAT_SVR4 is completely buggy, but to be clear on the > use of the code: +1 to removal for COMPAT_SVR4, there is always attic. I remember I've been also doing some mechanical changes in the area in past, and also encount

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 18/12/2018 à 06:51, Martin Husemann a écrit : On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:35:11PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote: On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Maxime Villard wrote: Now I'm re-putting the subject on the table, because, as if it wasn't already glaringly obvious, COMPAT_SVR4 is broken beyond repair

RFC: vioif(4) multiqueue support

2018-12-18 Thread Shoichi Yamaguchi
Hi all, I implemented a patch that make vioif(4) support multi-queue. And I have put the patch on ftp.n.o. I used vioif(4) multiqueue on qemu-kvm on Linux kernel 4.19.5. And It seems to be working fine. https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/yamaguchi/vioif_mutilq.patch The summary of the modifi

Re: svr4, again

2018-12-18 Thread Maxime Villard
Le 17/12/2018 à 23:35, Jason Thorpe a écrit : On Dec 17, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Maxime Villard wrote: Now I'm re-putting the subject on the table, because, as if it wasn't already glaringly obvious, COMPAT_SVR4 is broken beyond repair. I keep unintentionally finding bugs in it, and it just doesn't m