Re: SMP question

2008-01-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Michael Neumann wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: I would like to revisit SMP but it isn't going to happen until HAMMER is well into production. I try to encourage others to take up the SMP work but so far there's only been some minor poking around. IMHO a first step would be to write

Re: kernel can't find boot device ad

2008-01-26 Thread walt
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, mustkaru wrote: Hi, I successfully installed Dragonfly on my laptop and compiled a new kernel. However, when booting the new kernel panics: can't find boot device 'ad' (root is on /dev/ad0s1a). There is no 'ad' in the list of devices recognized by kernel. ata0 appears

Re: kernel can't find boot device ad

2008-01-26 Thread mustkaru
On Jan 26, 2008 3:24 PM, walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, mustkaru wrote: Hi, I successfully installed Dragonfly on my laptop and compiled a new kernel. However, when booting the new kernel panics: can't find boot device 'ad' (root is on /dev/ad0s1a). There is no

Re: kernel can't find boot device ad

2008-01-26 Thread Gergo Szakal
Hi! Please share your config file with us. What is your DragonFly version? -- Gergo Szakal MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] University Of Szeged, HU Faculty Of General Medicine /* Please do not CC me with replies, thank you. */

Re: SMP question

2008-01-26 Thread Haidut
So is there a quick way to identify those mplock dependence areas? Once that is done, how long do you think it would take an experienced C programmer to fix most of the issues? Like I said in my first email, all I need is a rough estimate - 1 month, 2 months, etc. Assume full-time, 40 hour week.

Re: kernel can't find boot device ad

2008-01-26 Thread walt
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, mustkaru wrote: .. I just wanted to compile the new kernel to slim it down and throw out debugging stuff. I attach the custom kernel config file, perhaps I've missed a driver? Yet, all I've essentially done is comment out debugging and SCSI devices, firewire, RAID,

Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno
Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff You can see daily spams from RecentChanges page too. Well, a wiki is

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
I second a motion! Tero Mäntyvaara Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Well, a wiki is a great thing, but I think restricting page editing to registered users only is really needed. What do you think about it? I think we should add a captcha for unregistered users and require a captcha for registering. cheers simon -- Serve

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Require a second password for registering. Those interested can ask on one of our lists or one of the wiki admins directly. Jeremy C. Reed

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Sdävtaker
I think the captcha for unregistered users is a good idea. I started editing the wiki as unregistered. Now, Im registered, but it is good to be able edit a couple of things without the need of been registered user, it encourages the occasional user to add/change few details of what hi is

Re: SMP question

2008-01-26 Thread Petr Janda
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:07:08 am Haidut wrote: Like I said in my first email, all I need is a rough estimate - 1 month, 2 months, etc. Assume full-time, 40 hour week. Finally, how open is the Dfly team to the idea of hiring programmer(s) on an hourly basis to code things up? Im pretty sure the

Re: New mirroring tool

2008-01-26 Thread Vincent Stemen
There turned out to be a couple of changes I wanted to make right away. o Fixed typos in README and mirror usage. o You can now specify a mirror file directly, without having to use option setting syntax. If a command line argument exists as a file, it is assumed to be a mirror

Re: SMP question

2008-01-26 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sat, January 26, 2008 4:07 pm, Haidut wrote: Finally, how open is the Dfly team to the idea of hiring programmer(s) on an hourly basis to code things up? Obviously they will NOT have commit access but simply write code and submit to Matt et al for approval. Also, everything they develop

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sat, January 26, 2008 6:07 pm, Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff You