Converting pointer to vm_offset_t

2010-05-05 Thread Fernando ApesteguĂ­a
Hi all,

Is there a way to convert a (char *) pointer (or in general any
pointer) to a vm_offset_t type?
I was thinking of sbuf_copyin, but I'm dealing with a process
different from current in kernel. I want to copy the pointer to kernel
space using a struct uio.

Thanks in advance.
___
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"


Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup

2010-05-05 Thread Julien Laffaye
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Wesley Shields  wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote:
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton
>>  wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Julien,
>> >
>> > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a
>> > complete package over many individual ones?
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex.
>> your packages are built with non default options and you think its
>> overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a
>> complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb
>> device), which is less error prone than 150 files.
>> The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired
>> ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the
>> machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila!
>
> Do you intend to add the "complete-package" target also or is that out
> of scope?
>

Yes, it is scheduled to add the ability to build complete packages
from the ports tree.
The name of the target is not yet endorsed but I think that
"complete-package" is pretty straight forward.

Regards,
Julien
___
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"


Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup

2010-05-05 Thread Wesley Shields
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton
>  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Julien,
> >
> > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a
> > complete package over many individual ones?
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex.
> your packages are built with non default options and you think its
> overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a
> complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb
> device), which is less error prone than 150 files.
> The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired
> ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the
> machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila!

Do you intend to add the "complete-package" target also or is that out
of scope?

-- WXS
___
freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"