Unsafe GENERIC? - Re: (unknown)

2010-03-16 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Alan Barrett a...@cequrux.com writes: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Aleksej Saushev wrote: While here, can anyone enlighten us how one boots NetBSD so that it looks for modules in non-default directory? You can't, and the people who want NetBSD to move to modular kernels don't seem to care. Until

Re: Unsafe GENERIC? - Re: (unknown)

2010-03-16 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Paul Goyette p...@whooppee.com writes: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Aleksej Saushev wrote: Well... Could we arrange it so that we have safe monolithic GENERIC until issues are resolved somehow? For i386, use MONOLITHIC instad of GENERIC For amd64, the default is still MONOLITHIC, if I remember

Re: Kernel modules in non-default directories

2010-03-16 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Mark Weinem mark.wei...@alumni.uni-due.de writes: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 20:51:23 Alan Barrett wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Aleksej Saushev wrote: [how to boot] NetBSD so that it looks for modules in non-default directory? You can't [...] Is this problem specific to NetBSD? Do other

Re: add DIAGNOSTIC back to GENERIC/INSTALL

2011-06-16 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Mindaugas Rasiukevicius rm...@netbsd.org writes: - DDB_ONPANIC=1 and DDB_COMMANDONENTER=bt;show regsisters and perhaps also call ddb_vgapost in the beginning (not sure if there are any potential side effects?). Otherwise, not getting information from DDB is just counter-productive,

Re: emap

2011-11-25 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com writes: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50:58PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius rm...@netbsd.org writes: y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote: hi, what's the status of emap and pipe? ... and encourage our users

Re: emap

2011-12-05 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello! y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) writes: Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com writes: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50:58PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius rm...@netbsd.org writes: y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote: hi, what's

Re: Lost file-system story

2011-12-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Edgar Fuß e...@math.uni-bonn.de wrote: Of course, keeping the on-disc metadata in a ``repairable'' state incurs a performance penalty. So you seem to be asking for the File System Holy Grail: a file system that is

Re: Lost file-system story

2011-12-14 Thread Aleksej Saushev
James Chacon chacon.ja...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Greg A. Woods wo...@planix.ca wrote: At Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:06:23 +1030, Brett Lymn brett.l...@baesystems.com wrote: Subject: Re: Lost file-system story On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger

Re: uname (3), and uname (1) values, 6.0_[A-Z]* and building userland projects

2012-12-19 Thread Aleksej Saushev
jtow...@soncom.com (John R. Towler) writes: Hello, The topic is uname(1) and uname (3), sysctl -a entries and their intended semantics in the English words of the man pages. I have a problem with the current (110.75) and last versions (110.74) of smlnj, of

Re: Sending ATA commands?

2013-08-12 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com writes: On Aug 11, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Mouse mo...@rodents-montreal.org wrote: [...], I wonder if you could attach the HPA area as an additional partition on the default disklabel, or, if the disk is gpt partitioned, fake up another partition in the gpt table.

Re: Lua in-kernel (lbuf library)

2013-10-16 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Marc Balmer m...@msys.ch writes: Am 15.10.13 23:01, schrieb Lourival Vieira Neto: Also, having to switch mentally between zero-based arrays in the kernel C code and 1-based arrays in the Lua code make my head ache. It's something that doesn't bug me so much.. But, if necessary it could be

Re: Why do we need lua in-tree again? Yet another call for actual evidence, please. (was Re: Moving Lua source codes)

2013-10-18 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Rizzo r...@tastylime.net wrote: On 10/14/13 1:46 PM, Marc Balmer wrote: There is real word, real working code. In userland and in kernel space. There are developers waiting for the kernel

Re: Why do we need lua in-tree again? Yet another call for actual evidence, please. (was Re: Moving Lua source codes)

2013-10-18 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: (...) Lua is a tool, not an end in itself. I think that you are formulating a chicken-and-egg problem: we need the basic support for then having applications

Re: Why do we need lua in-tree again? Yet another call for actual evidence, please. (was Re: Moving Lua source codes)

2013-10-18 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello, Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Taylor R Campbell riastr...@netbsd.org wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:16:16 -0300 From: Lourival Vieira Neto lourival.n...@gmail.com Lua is a tool, not an end in itself. I think that

Processes get stuck in layerfs in NetBSD 6.99.28 i386

2013-12-06 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello, After updating to current I have problem that some processes get stuck on layerfs wchan. dholland suggested that it may be have been fixed recently, but after updating kernel to the source as of around 2013-12-06 05:00:05 MSK I still have the problem: $ ps -axo pid,wchan,command | awk

Re: Groff

2015-06-03 Thread Aleksej Saushev
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:50:07PM +, David Holland wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 09:24:48PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: (oh and please delete C++ groff, just replace it with that AWK script) which awk script? :-) (quite seriously, I've been looking

Re: Groff

2015-06-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Johnny Billquist b...@softjar.se writes: On 2015-06-04 09:43, Matt Thomas wrote: On Jun 3, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Just in case you don't know, nearly any user has libxml2 and libxslt installed anyway. None of my systems do. I thought Aleksej was joking

Re: Dropping support for old binaries

2015-06-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello, Brian Buhrow buh...@nfbcal.org writes: hello. There is a proposal around to drop support for old NetBSD binaries in current ersions of NetBSD. For example, nuking COMPAT_NOMID, COMPAT_10, COMPAT_12, COMPAT_13 COMPAT_14, etc. from the the -current source tree. I'll let the

Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

2015-06-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: jo...@britannica.bec.de (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes: On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote: Asking for ARCNET support in the absence of hardware to test on, however, is really asking for something quite different. Since

Re: Groff

2015-06-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com writes: On Jun 3, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Just in case you don't know, nearly any user has libxml2 and libxslt installed anyway. None of my systems do. I'm sorry, but this is not your virtue. Basically, it tells everyone

Re: Groff

2015-06-10 Thread Aleksej Saushev
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 08:05:16AM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote: tlaro...@polynum.com writes: [pledge for TeX---not TexLive] There's a lot better approach that beats all the above on all accounts. Import libxml2, libxslt, w3m that are all readily available