Re: Tester(s) needed: ixv(4)

On 18 August 2015 at 12:09, Bert Kiers wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 05:38:09PM +0200, Bert Kiers wrote: > >> # uname -a >> NetBSD 7.99.21 NetBSD 7.99.21 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Aug 17 17:13:23 CEST 2015 >>

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

On 31 May 2015 at 00:09, David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote: I'm saying that, fundamentally, if you want to run gcc4 or gcc5 on a Sparc IPC that you're going to have problems. There is no way around this, except maybe to float a new compiler with the specific goal of both being

Re: Removal of compat-FreeBSD

On 7 February 2015 at 11:33, Stephen Borrill net...@precedence.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 7 Feb 2015, Maxime Villard wrote: I intend to remove the compat-FreeBSD support from the system. Can tw_cli be run in any other way to manage 3ware RAID cards? Does the Linux binary for tw_cli work? Or are

Re: OpenZFS?

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: The ZFS bits in NetBSD seem old, and it also seems that they don't quite 100% work. Now, it seems OpenZFS is the locus of ZFS activity, and that's how FreeBSD's ZFS code is maintained: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Re: driver concurrency

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Manuel Bouyer bou...@antioche.eu.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:28:04PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: They would, and many are simple enough to make this reasonably easy to do, but in practice, the giant locking of our SCSI code makes it pointless.

Re: posix_madvise(2) should fail with ENOMEM for invalid adresses range

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Nicolas Joly nj...@pasteur.fr wrote: Hi, According the OpenGroup online document for posix_madvise[1], it should fail with ENOMEM for invalid addresses ranges : [ENOMEM] Addresses in the range starting at addr and continuing for len bytes are

Re: kernel constructor

On Nov 10, 2014 10:02 AM, Masao Uebayashi uebay...@gmail.com wrote: __attribute__((constructor(n))), where n being priority, can do ordering (hint from pooka@). Question is, how to provide __CTOR_LIST__, __CTOR_LIST_END__ equivalent symbols. (It is super easy if MI linker script is there.

Re: kernel constructor

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Masao Uebayashi uebay...@gmail.com wrote: Hard to be uglier than how init_main.c looks like now... Can't disagree there. Justin

Re: CTLTYPE_UINT?

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Alan Barrett a...@cequrux.com wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Justin Cormack wrote: Back in the sysctl discussion a while back, core group said: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2014/03/26/msg016779.html a) What types are needed? Currently, CTLTYPE_INT

CTLTYPE_UINT?

Back in the sysctl discussion a while back, core group said: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2014/03/26/msg016779.html a) What types are needed? Currently, CTLTYPE_INT is a signed 32-bit type, and CTLTYPE_QUAD is an unsigned 64-bit type. Perhaps all four possible combinations of

Re: detect valid fd

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Patrick Welche pr...@cam.ac.uk wrote: So for both of you, things look correct! This is on Sunday's NetBSD 7.99.1 amd64, but this is an old problem for me... Very odd. What does ktrace output look like? Which other versions did you see this on before? Justin

Re: ixg(4) performances

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:22:31PM -0400, Terry Moore wrote: Is the ixg in an expansion slot or integrated onto the main board? If you know where to get a mainboard with an integrated ixg, I wouldn't mind hearing

Re: RFC: IRQ affinity (aka interrupt routing)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Kengo NAKAHARA k-nakah...@iij.ad.jp wrote: But the UI is rough, so could you comment aboud the UI? The implementation is consist of following three pathes: (1) IRQ affinity implementation itself The usage is sysctl -w kern.cpu_affinity.irq=18:1

Re: icache sync private rump component

On Jul 19, 2014 10:01 AM, Alexander Nasonov al...@yandex.ru wrote: To compile mips/cache.h in rump kernel, I needed to add -DMIPS3=1 to Makefile.rump for mips platforms. This is the only change outside of sljit scope. You surely can't do that, people may be trying to compile on non mips3

Re: Fixing the ELF priorities

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Maxime Villard m...@m00nbsd.net wrote: Hi, I would like to improve the priorities of the binary loader. When the kernel loads a binary, it basically loops and calls different loaders (for aout, ELF, ...). There are several ELF loaders, for native and emulated

Re: ffsv2 extattr support

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: One peculiarity shows up: extattr_get_link(2) et.al. return the attribute content with a trailing 0-byte. This 0-byte seems to be a bug-or-feature of setextattr(1). I overwrote an extattr in the ISO filesystem by

Re: Big test regression in -current

All the issues I saw have been resolved - thanks everyone. Justin

Re: Big test regression in -current

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de wrote: And after updating again we are down to a handfull of unusual failures: Summary for 587 test programs: 3781 passed test cases. 21 failed test cases. 32 expected failed test cases. 75 skipped test

Re: Big test regression in -current

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius rm...@netbsd.org wrote: Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de wrote: Something seriously happened to -current in the last few days. Between June 2 and June 8 the number of test failures jumped from 17 to 80, see:

Re: asymmetric smp

On Mar 27, 2014 2:32 AM, Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com wrote: I recently ordered an ODROID-XU Lite to help beat on the my ARM MP code. However, it has a quirk that I don't think our scheduler will deal with. It has 4 Cortex-A15 cores @ 1.4Ghz and 4 Cortex-A7 cores @ 1.2Ghz. Even if the

[ANN] rumprun

I know a few people have been using this already, but I thought I would do a more formal announcement as I have now pushed a much improved version (no longer uses dlopen). Rumprun, available from https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun is a set of build scripts that builds NetBSD userspace tools

Re: Enhance ptyfs to handle multiple instances.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Ilya Zykov net...@izyk.ru wrote: | I have few questions about project. | Christos, can I ask you about this? | Please, if anybody has objections or already doing it, tell me know. Nobody is already doing it, and if you have questions, you came to the right

Re: RFC: stop having a single global page size

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Martin Husemann mar...@duskware.de wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:59:15AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote: Why would anyone want this? Say you have a system in which the MMU can have per translation table page sizes. a 16KB page size might be desirable for the

Re: BPF memstore and bpf_validate_ext()

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Alexander Nasonov al...@yandex.ru wrote: Sorry for top-posting. I'm replying from my phone. I've not looked at linux bpf before. I remember taking a quick look at bpf_jit_compile function but I didn't like emitting binary machine code with macro commands.

Re: [patch] put Lua standard libraries into the kernel

On 29 Nov 2013 14:11, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Marc Balmer m...@msys.ch wrote: Am 29.11.13 12:38, schrieb Lourival Vieira Neto: It will be interesting to see by how much memory the addition of the standard libraries will grow

Re: in which we present an ugly hack to make sys/queue.h CIRCLEQ work

On 27 Nov 2013 06:50, Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote: Let me get on the record. It's basically ridiculous to allow GCC 4.8 to redefine the set of permitted C expressions such that it breaks BSD. gcc 4.8 isn't. C99 did; what's distinctive about gcc 4.8 is that before that gcc

Re: A Library for Converting Data to and from C Structs for Lua

On 20 Nov 2013 08:38, Marc Balmer m...@msys.ch wrote: Now we need a name that covers both uses cases. It could be memory because it deals with memory, or just data, which I favour. Opinions on the name? Since no one replied, it will go by the name 'data' and be available for both Luas.

Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Alexander Nasonov al...@yandex.ru wrote: Mouse wrote: Also, using an exact-width type assumes that the hardware/compiler in question _has_ such a type. It's possible that lua, NetBSD, or the combination of the two is willing to write off portability to

Re: A Library for Converting Data to and from C Structs for Lua

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Marc Balmer m...@msys.ch wrote: I came accross a small library for converting data to an from C structs for Lua, written by Roberto Ierusalimschy: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/struct/ I plan to import it and to make it available to both lua(1) and

Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Christos Zoulas chris...@zoulas.com wrote: On Nov 17, 10:46am, lourival.n...@gmail.com (Lourival Vieira Neto) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t |

Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Christos Zoulas chris...@zoulas.com wrote: On Nov 17, 3:36pm, lourival.n...@gmail.com (Lourival Vieira Neto) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t | 1. Lua 5.3 will have 64 bit integer support as standard, which will | make interop

Re: [patch] changing lua_Number to int64_t

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I don't think I fully understood that; mainly because I'm not aware about Lua 5.3. It will provide two number types for the scripts? Or you are just talking about lua_Integer type on the C-side. Lua 5.1

Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Michael van Elst mlel...@serpens.de wrote: The slowdown is already enormous due to lack of floating point hardware. That's why emulating the FP hardware is a very common way to handle this situation, just look at the other platforms. The rationale behind this

Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Alistair Crooks a...@pkgsrc.org wrote: What I am asking for is a much better way of people describing the design decisions they've taken, and for them to attempt the radical step of documenting these decisions, and publishing them, so that people can

Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Michael van Elst mlel...@serpens.de wrote: m...@3am-software.com (Matt Thomas) writes: Exactly. with hf, floating point values are passed in floating point registers. That can not be hidden via a library (this works on x86 since the stack has all the

Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Alistair Crooks a...@pkgsrc.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 04:56:04AM +, Jun Ebihara wrote: Module Name: pkgsrc Committed By: jun Date: Sun Nov 10 04:56:04 UTC 2013 Modified Files: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland: Makefile Log

Re: Lua in-kernel (lbuf library)

On 16 Oct 2013 15:41, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Justin, On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, It has been a long

Re: Moving Lua source codes

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Klausner w...@netbsd.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:37:23AM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: So if no one really objects the plan is as follows: - Import Lua 5.2 to src/sys/external/ - Remove Lua 5.1 from src/external/ apb suggested using

equivalent of MAP_32BIT

I have been informed that there might be an undocumented ability to get mmap to return addresses in the lower 4G of address space on a 64 bit machine by passing ~(unsigned)0 as the first parameter (or (131)-1 for 2GB). Is this correct? Or is it possibley to use netbsd32_mmap()? Linux and some