Hi,
I am trying to figure out best way to boot FreeBSD8 kernel when physical memory
is not starting at zero address. Is using physfree address in hammer_time()
argument is the one which sets start of physical memory address? Any input
would be appreciated.
thanks
naeem
I am not sure how this ioctl (DIOCGDINFO) in fsck_ffs/setup.c is returned from
kernel. Seems like there is only one place in sys/geom/geom_bsd.c, I have
enabled GEOM_BSD option in config file, but not able to see it. Could someone
point out how this ioctl is returned from kernel? I see it is
I created this small partition of 512K bytes on disk, I am noticing about
24% is used up before system can be mounted and used. My assumption was about
4% is supposed to be used if minfree is set to 0.
#newfs -U -l -m 0 -n -o space /dev/ad1d
/dev/ad1d: 0.5MB (1024 sectors) block
I used this sample echo driver listed here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-char.html and
used Example 9-2 for 5.X FreeBSD. Modifed and added a printline in write
function to display Count value:
I am using 7.1 FreeBSD version. I compiled the driver and ran the
