Fwd: Call for FreeBSD 2015Q3 (July-September) Status Reports

2015-09-09 Thread Ed Maste
Hello Debian kFreeBSD folks, We'll publish a FreeBSD quarterly update in early October for work in July-September, and I'd be very happy to have a Debian kFreeBSD entry in there. Please reply to me if you're willing to put one together. -Ed -- Forwarded message -- Dear FreeBSD

Re: Bug#790358: please don't depend on clang-3.4

2015-07-07 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 June 2015 at 17:17, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Hi! So I think we may want to build kfreebsd-10 using clang-3.6, to keep consistency with kfreebsd-11, and so that we rely on fewer clang releases to be maintained simultaneously in Debian. Note that upstream FreeBSD 11

Re: reproducible builds of FreeBSD in a chroot on Linux

2015-05-11 Thread Ed Maste
On 11 May 2015 at 14:37, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: We were actually able to build our package of the FreeBSD kernel on GNU/Linux, and the binary would match what we built on GNU/kFreeBSD. (Which I think is the ultimate in securing against attacks on the build/development

Re: kFreeBSD future

2014-10-02 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 September 2014 16:35, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: We need to communicate better the state of kfreebsd and advancements since wheezy; we haven't done a 'bits' email in a long time. It is probably in much better state than most people realise. I'd love see a kFreeBSD

Re: 10-STABLE panic in atkbd due to Qemu+virtio

2014-08-20 Thread Ed Maste
On 20 August 2014 09:38, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Is there someplace to get 'official' upstream 10-STABLE kernels? Mine are built with Debian's usual config and packaging, and Clang 3.4. Thanks! You can grab a snapshot build from:

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-08-20 Thread Ed Maste
On 20 August 2014 15:56, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Hi, I've tested for this vt(4) issue in upstream's own kernel build from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/10.0-STABLE and it is affected as well. It is only a problem when using Qemu with the -enable-kvm

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-07-25 Thread Ed Maste
On 22/07/14 19:58, Jan Henke wrote: I am experiencing a strange problem with the current kFreeBSD weekly image. Whenever the system is writing to the screen in text mode (e.g. directly after selecting one entry in GRUB: Copyright) you can literally watch every single character printed to

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-12 Thread Ed Maste
On 12 February 2014 09:05, Robert Millan r...@debian.org wrote: There's a small glitch during VT switch: immediately after pressing the keys, screen is redrawn, but where you'd normally see the login prompt, blurry characers are drawn. After a fraction of a second, these are replaced with

Bug#738188: VESA Newcons is awfully slow

2014-02-09 Thread Ed Maste
On 8 February 2014 08:49, Robert Millan r...@debian.org wrote: Package: kfreebsd-image-11.0-0-amd64 Version: 11.0~svn260666-1 Severity: important With Newcons it becomes practically impossible to use the console. When using the default VESA driver, both VT switching and text scrolling

Re: screen blanks after loading radeonkms (or i915kms)

2013-12-19 Thread Ed Maste
On 19 December 2013 06:33, Robert Millan r...@debian.org wrote: On 19/12/2013 04:21, Ed Maste wrote: On 18 December 2013 19:58, Robert Millan r...@debian.org wrote: We could also try making it play nice with VTs. Maybe enabling newcons helps. Also, there's some disabled WIP code in radeonkms

Re: screen blanks after loading radeonkms (or i915kms)

2013-12-18 Thread Ed Maste
On 18 December 2013 19:58, Robert Millan r...@debian.org wrote: We could also try making it play nice with VTs. Maybe enabling newcons helps. Also, there's some disabled WIP code in radeonkms which is aimed at this purpose (I haven't tested it). Restoring vty switching is one of the benefits

Re: FTBS owncloud-client

2013-10-21 Thread Ed Maste
On 16 October 2013 18:57, Sandro Knauß b...@sandroknauss.de wrote: Hi, today I got the information, that FreeBSD has a working port for owncloud- client: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/deskutils/mirall/ This uses the FreeBSD libinotify port, a ktrace-based implementation of the inotify

Bug#722336: kfreebsd-9: CVE-2013-5666: sendfile kernel memory disclosure

2013-09-10 Thread Ed Maste
This is fixed in stable/9 in r255443. The offending commit was already reverted from the 9.2 branch prior to 9.2-RC3 for other reasons. On 10 September 2013 07:31, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: Package: src:kfreebsd-9 Version: 9.2~svn253912-1 Severity: grave Tags: security

Re: [Openjdk] Bug#708818: Updated kFreeBSD support

2013-05-30 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 May 2013 07:41, Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org wrote: openjdk-7 has built now on kfreebsd-amd64! Nice job! Do you have a link to the patch set? I'm curious about the extent of the changes, and how much overlap they have with the FreeBSD port diffs. -Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#630206: libnss-myhostname: FTBFS: fatal error: asm/types.h: No such file or directory

2011-06-14 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 09:11:41AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Nah, I will not work on this. Netlink is Linux specific -- it cannot be made on the legacy kernels, and I don't care for the legacy kernels anyway and won't spend time on them. At the BSDCan conference last month we had some

Bug#594288: kfreebsd-8: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.3)

2010-09-13 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote: fails (panic in swapper) similarly also for me. Can you add the following options to the kernel config and recompile, to help track down the problem: # Compile with kernel debugger related code. options KDB # Print a

Bug#594288: kfreebsd-8: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.3)

2010-09-13 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:55:54PM +0200, Tuco wrote: Btw FreeBSD handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html#KERNELDEBUG-OBTAIN) says dumpon and savecore are needed to save and restore crash dumps so I ported them and added them to freebsd-utils in case

Bug#594288: kfreebsd-8: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.3)

2010-09-12 Thread Ed Maste
Same problem. This could be complicated. It appears as FreeBSD developers haven't tested with recent GCC at all (their last upgrade was to GCC 4.2). Yes, FreeBSD is stuck on GCC 4.2.1 for the system compiler right now, as it is the last GPLv2 version. In general I'd think it's beneficial for

Re: 32-bit uname with 64-bit kernel

2010-08-05 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:16:21PM -0400, Tuco wrote: I found this problem when running uname inside a 32-bit chroot, 'uname -m' prints amd64! This often breaks configure scripts and build systems. With this glibc patch, uname corrects the output after it has been obtained with sysctl.