Re: [HEADS UP] Start of the freeze for the pkgsrc-2008Q1 branch

2008-03-18 Thread Rumko
AFAIK, databases/db4 still does not compile on dfly (the patch on pkgsrc-users was not commited as far as I can tell), also xine-lib and libmp4v2 (last time I checked, could have been fixed in the mean time, but after a quick view through gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.cvs, I didn't see anything done

Re: Soc 2008 - we're in!

2008-03-18 Thread Matthias Schmidt
* Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/dragonfly/about.html > > Yay us! There were a number of people who had spoken up before; now is > your chance - Sd?vtaker, Robert Luciani + Danwei, Jost Tobias > Springenberg, and Vita "CiV" Cizek were the names I had down. > > If you

Re: dma!? (was Re: Soc 2008 - we're in!)

2008-03-18 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hi, * Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > Anyways, this looks like something that should be more publicized. Sure, go ahead :) > Or have I missed hearing about it on this list before? There were some discussions on submit@, commits@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your report about that -t option. I

Re: Soc 2008 - we're in!

2008-03-18 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, March 18, 2008 4:23 am, Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Just as a side note: It would be nice if the potential students could > write up a short bio and send it to the list and/or to the mentor. Some > lines about (coding, BSD, DragonFly, UNIX) experience and how you want > to complete the pro

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-18 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
Here is a little update for my problem... On 12 Mar 2008, at 02:48, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: IIRC, you need to fiddle with ad5*. A better alternative I can think of is to partition (or maybe even disklabel it and newfs -O1) using FreeBSD installer first, then boot with DragonFly LiveCD, and

eINIT

2008-03-18 Thread Christopher Rawnsley
I came across this today: "eINIT is a replacement for /sbin/init -- the programme that is responsible for booting your computer -- that is all about not wasting resources; that's not wasting CPU cycles, but also not wasting RAM either, which should make eINIT very well suited for embedded

[GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Jordan Gordeev
I'm a student interested in doing the AMD64 port as a Google Summer of Code project. I would like to have some questions answered, in order to be able to make an informed decision. 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine w

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Jordan Gordeev wrote: 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? maybe. the basic infrastructure is in place however and also seems to be able to produce amd64 binaries of some sort. 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine with more than 4 GB RAM to be able t

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'll add my response to Simon's, we basically say the same thing :-) :I'm a student interested in doing the AMD64 port as a Google Summer of :Code project. :I would like to have some questions answered, in order to be able to :make an informed decision. : 1. Does porting require messing wit

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: :I'm a student interested in doing the AMD64 port as a Google Summer of :Code project. :I would like to have some questions answered, in order to be able to :make an informed decision. : 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? This m

Re: [GSoC] the AMD64 port

2008-03-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:36:32PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb? Not much, if at all. > 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine with more than 4 GB RAM to be able > to fully test my work? No. > 3. Would I be required t

DFly and SOC2008

2008-03-18 Thread Stefan Johannesdal
Hi! I am a computer science student from Sweden that is doing my last year now (hopefully). I am studying to become a civil engineer in information technology. I am a bit interested in this years Google SOC and was looking at the "Extend Multi-Processing support" project suggestion. I have n

SoC2008 student guidelines

2008-03-18 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/GoogleSoC2008Student Please comment on it or just add to it (since it's on the wiki). Any changes/additions in the next day or so will be used for the student application template I'm providing to Google, so if you've got something to add - you know what to

Re: Installation on Macbook Pro

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Christopher Rawnsley wrote: Here is a little update for my problem... On 12 Mar 2008, at 02:48, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: IIRC, you need to fiddle with ad5*. A better alternative I can think of is to partition (or maybe even disklabel it and newfs -O1) using FreeBSD installer first, then boot w