Looking for a mentor
Hi FreeBSDers, I'm a C and C++ developer and I am looking for anybody would be willing to help me get started in the FreeBSD development community. :D I'm trying to get more experience in both kernel and user-land development on FreeBSD. I won't take much of your time, I really need somebody to assign stuff to me and give me a few hints when I get lost. It would be awesome if we can start from simple tasks and move up to other more complex tasks so I can get a feel of how much time I can dedicate to this on a week without loosing my job. LOL I have been looking for a mentor in FreeBSD for a little while by asking around but I think I need to get a few more eye balls so I can really get into the project on the development side and not just on the publicity side as I have been doing so far. Thanks in advance ;) -- gamaral ___ 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"
HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2010
Dear all, I would like to remind you that the next round of status reports covering the first quarter of 2010 is due on April 15th, 2010. This initiative is very welcome in our community. Therefore, I would like to ask you to submit your status reports as soon as possible, so that we can compile the report on time. There is a lot of projects which are currently being worked on, so do not hesitate and write us a few lines - a short description about what you are working on, what are your plans and goals, so we can inform our community about your great work! Check out the reports from past to get some inspiration of what your submission should look like. If you know about a project that should be included in the status report, please let us know as well, so we can poke the responsible people to provide us with something useful. Updates to submissions from the last report are welcome too. Note that the submissions are accepted from anyone involved with the FreeBSD community, you do not have to be a FreeBSD committer. Submissions about anything related to FreeBSD are very welcome! Please email us the filled-in XML template to be found at http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml to mont...@freebsd.org, or alternatively use our web based form located at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/monthly.cgi. For more information, please visit http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/. We are looking forward to see your submissions! -- S pozdravom / Best regards Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer ___ 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: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different > characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters > are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. > > Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them. > > Does anybody know a workaround for this? AFAIK our standard is -mdoc, not -man. Is there a specific purpose for which you need -man? And if not does the problem exist with -mdoc? You might also want to take this up on freebsd-doc. hth, Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover!http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ 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"
Logical CPUs cannot be disabled via W3520
Someone on the forums [1] noticed that machdep.hlt_logical_cpus was unavailable on their system, and I did some poking around and noticed that it was as well. Should SMT logical CPUs be disable(-able) via machdep.hlt_logical_cpus as well or is it just classic HTT based chips? Thanks, -Garrett $ sysctl machdep. machdep.acpi_timer_freq: 3579545 machdep.enable_panic_key: 0 machdep.adjkerntz: 25200 machdep.wall_cmos_clock: 1 machdep.disable_rtc_set: 0 machdep.acpi_root: 1029056 machdep.disable_mtrrs: 0 machdep.idle: acpi machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, mwait_hlt, hlt, acpi, machdep.hlt_cpus: 0 machdep.prot_fault_translation: 0 machdep.panic_on_nmi: 1 machdep.kdb_on_nmi: 1 machdep.tsc_freq: 2694121808 machdep.i8254_freq: 1193182 $ sysctl hw.machine hw.model hw.machine: amd64 hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz dmesg snippet: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz (2694.12-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106a5 Family = 6 Model = 1a Stepping = 5 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x9ce3bd AMD Features=0x28100800 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 12884901888 (12288 MB) avail memory = 12379992064 (11806 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <091109 APIC2100> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5 cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu7 (AP): APIC ID: 7 [1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12527 ___ 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: Unicode in Syscons: I'd like to go on
On 17/03/2010 15:34, Alexander Churanov wrote: > Hi folks! > > Some time ago I was initiating the work on syscons driver ( see > http://wiki.freebsd.org/SysconsUnicodeProject ), then was too busy and my > part of the work stalled for about a year. At present I am going to continue > working on this. > ... Did you receive any responses to your mail? I'm kind of a unicode fan boy and I'd like to know, whether something is happening. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
On 21/03/2010 11:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following: >> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" >> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different >> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters >> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. > > Are you sure that they are even appropriate? > E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail > client. Well, that's just how I got them into the mail. I copied them out of the terminal, that displays a square instead of the characters, into my mail client, which displays them just fine. > My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here. I don't know about that, but they sure would be most convenient. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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: ATA 4K sector issues
2010/3/17 Thiago Damas : > I'll try tomorrow more zfs tests, with 1M alignment on begining of disk. > But I also remember that zfs block size its 128k, but metadata can be of > dynamic size. And we can use compressed files too. ZFS block size for data is not fixed at 128k, search for recordsize in the zfs man page. > There is a sysctl, md_compress, that I turned out in my tests, but not > working as expected. > Why using gnop -S 4096 works well? Interesting thread for issues with actual 4k disks : http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=447926 I'm waiting for a jumper on those 4k disks to turn off the "legacy" 512b mode. > > Thiago > ___ > 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" > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org- against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org- against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." ___ 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: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
on 21/03/2010 10:24 Dominic Fandrey said the following: > It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" > formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different > characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters > are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. Are you sure that they are even appropriate? E.g. I think you won't be able to copy+paste such an address to any mail client. My opinion is that ASCII angle brackets are the most appropriate here. > Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them. > > Does anybody know a workaround for this? > -- Andriy Gapon ___ 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"
nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man" formats ".An name Aq email" as "name ", it uses different characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them. Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them. Does anybody know a workaround for this? -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ 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"
