Re: INVARIANTS and -current

2000-10-31 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:06:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could someone give a quick explanation what INVARIANTS does? It adds more internal consistency checks to the kernel. This make bugs show up more promptly and in a more predictable fashion, which again makes it easier to fix the

Re: linux emulation

2000-10-31 Thread Szilveszter Adam
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:59:48PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Wesley Morgan wrote: > > > > Anyone having problems with the linuxulator the past couple days? > > Define "past couple of days". I have a working linuxulator made on Oct > 29, 12:25 PST. Mine: Mon Oct 30 17:01:15 CET 2000 and

Re: linux emulation

2000-10-31 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Wesley Morgan wrote: > > Anyone having problems with the linuxulator the past couple days? Define "past couple of days". I have a working linuxulator made on Oct 29, 12:25 PST. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: platform byte order macros?

2000-10-31 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:13:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 06:11:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:34:06AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >

Re: INVARIANTS and -current

2000-10-31 Thread janb
Could someone give a quick explanation what INVARIANTS does? JAn On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Boris Popov wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > I want to enable INVARIANTS by default in -current. This result in some > > slowdown, but it also makes it more likely that we'll find bugs

Re: INVARIANTS and -current

2000-10-31 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Eivind Eklund wrote: > I want to enable INVARIANTS by default in -current. This result in some > slowdown, but it also makes it more likely that we'll find bugs quickly. > People that want to run -current should know enough to disable it if it is > in the way, anyway. > > W

Re: Wierdness with cvsup

2000-10-31 Thread John Polstra
In article , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using cvsup to update my sources. in the supfile, there is a > line that states *default compress. The comment above indicates to > comment this out when you have a fast connection. I DO have a fast >

Wierdness with cvsup

2000-10-31 Thread janb
I am using cvsup to update my sources. in the supfile, there is a line that states *default compress. The comment above indicates to comment this out when you have a fast connection. I DO have a fast connection (100+ K sustained to ftp.freebsd.org) But when I comment this line out, cvsup indicates

RE: making an install CD

2000-10-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 01-Nov-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anybody have a link to instructions for making an install CD with the > 'current' state. Well, you need to have the CVS repo handy for starters, then try cd /usr/src/release make release CHROOTDIR=/some/place/with/space CVSROOT=/my/cvsroot Read th

making an install CD

2000-10-31 Thread janb
I would line to make an Install CD with a non-release kernel and sysinstall. Only the newer software supports the device I want to install on, So I need both the new kernel and sysinstall. Does anybody have a link to instructions for making an install CD with the 'current' state. jan To Unsu

Re: linux emulation

2000-10-31 Thread Donny Lee
Wesley Morgan wrote: > Anyone having problems with the linuxulator the past couple days? > Module fails to load for me, with this message: > link_elf: symbol makebdev undefined Yah, i do. -- // Donny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the bod

linux emulation

2000-10-31 Thread Wesley Morgan
Anyone having problems with the linuxulator the past couple days? Module fails to load for me, with this message: link_elf: symbol makebdev undefined -- _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ Wesley N Morgan _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \

Re: I need some nm output from today's -current on i386

2000-10-31 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could somebody with today's -current on an i386 please send me the > output from this command ASAP? > > nm -oa /usr/lib/libgcc_r.a | fgrep frame.o: Got it. Thanks! John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

I need some nm output from today's -current on i386

2000-10-31 Thread John Polstra
Could somebody with today's -current on an i386 please send me the output from this command ASAP? nm -oa /usr/lib/libgcc_r.a | fgrep frame.o: Thanks! John -- John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.S

Re: Intel Etherexpress support?

2000-10-31 Thread Wes Peters
Gerhard Sittig wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 00:08 +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > > Without looking at any of your code, I would kindly like to ask > > you not to look at the Linux driver for eexpress too much - > > it's severely broken and has all kinds of timing problems that > > can c

ata problems, nevermind

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Wierd, I turned the computer off and turned it back on again and the problem is solved... sorry bout that. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

wierd ata driver problem

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
with a -STABLE as of last night at 1:30 AM EST the ata driver refuses to configure my DVD drive. Here is the output of a dmesg: ad0: 8063MB [16383/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 13029MB [26473/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66 ad2: 14655MB [29777/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA66 ata0-slave: <\M-vO\M-

Re: docs for via kt133 south bridge

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
cool, thanks. = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade| | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University o

Re: docs for via kt133 south bridge

2000-10-31 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > I think one of our Japanese friends has been trying to get these docs > > from VIA. With little luck it seems. > > Hrmm, well I'll send a messege or something over to VIA... I'm going to > make this driver in such a way that it would be easy to add more dr

Re: device_tagenb in sys/cam/cam_xpt.c

2000-10-31 Thread The Hermit Hacker
damn, and I thought it was cause I didn't do a buildworld before my buildkernel ... ;( On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Valentin Chopov wrote: > After last changes , device_tagenb is not defined in sys/cam/cam_xpt.c > > > Thanks, > > Val > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with

/dev/random strangeness

2000-10-31 Thread Nathan Boeger
I have looked through the list (I am new to this list) and saw some mention of the /dev/random. However I have a strange problem that was not mentioned. After I did a proper make world and updated my system to 5.0-CURRENT, my /dev/random services do not "start ?". So if I where to do a make depen

Re: compile failure in current

2000-10-31 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:49:08AM -0800, Charlie Root wrote: > cc -Os -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/csu/../../../contrib/gcc/config -I. -DIN_GCC >-finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions >-fno-omit-frame-pointer -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -g0 -DCRT_END -c -o >crtend.o /

Re: docs for via kt133 south bridge

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
> I think one of our Japanese friends has been trying to get these docs > from VIA. With little luck it seems. Hrmm, well I'll send a messege or something over to VIA... I'm going to make this driver in such a way that it would be easy to add more drivers for other hwmon stuff in the future... Ke

device_tagenb in sys/cam/cam_xpt.c

2000-10-31 Thread Valentin Chopov
After last changes , device_tagenb is not defined in sys/cam/cam_xpt.c Thanks, Val To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: docs for via kt133 south bridge

2000-10-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:02:47PM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > I was wondering if any of the developers here had any docs for the via > kt133 south bridge. I need the docs so that I can write a driver for the > hardware monitoring features of this chip... I looked on via's website, > but

Re: threaded python seg faults?

2000-10-31 Thread Dave Cornejo
The patch seems to solve my problems, thank you! dave c John Polstra wrote: > It's because libc_r isn't getting initialized in time. > > Please try applying the appended patch to "src/gnu/lib/libgcc_r/Makefile" > and let us know if it fixes the problem. You will need to rebuild > and reinstall

Re: threaded python seg faults?

2000-10-31 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Cornejo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the last couple of days I've been trying to build python 2 from > the ports tree without success. I updated my sources a couple of time > and rebuilt the kernel and world with no effect. > > The problem seems to have

Re: INVARIANTS and -current

2000-10-31 Thread Steve Kargl
Eivind Eklund wrote: > (Based on suggestion from Robert Watson.) > > I want to enable INVARIANTS by default in -current. This result in some > slowdown, but it also makes it more likely that we'll find bugs quickly. > People that want to run -current should know enough to disable it if it is > i

docs for via kt133 south bridge

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I was wondering if any of the developers here had any docs for the via kt133 south bridge. I need the docs so that I can write a driver for the hardware monitoring features of this chip... I looked on via's website, but the docs there are incomplete... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: Intel Etherexpress support?

2000-10-31 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 00:08 +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > > > Without looking at any of your code, I would kindly like to ask > > you not to look at the Linux driver for eexpress too much - > > it's severely broken and has all

INVARIANTS and -current

2000-10-31 Thread Eivind Eklund
(Based on suggestion from Robert Watson.) I want to enable INVARIANTS by default in -current. This result in some slowdown, but it also makes it more likely that we'll find bugs quickly. People that want to run -current should know enough to disable it if it is in the way, anyway. Well-reasoned

Re: Current Kernel build broken

2000-10-31 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Manfred Antar wrote: > From latest sources: > cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes >-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi >-g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include >-I../../contrib/d

compile failure in current

2000-10-31 Thread Charlie Root
cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/csu; make depend; make all; make install echo '#include "i386/i386.h"' > tm.h echo '#include "i386/att.h"'>> tm.h echo '#include ' >> tm.h echo '#include "i386/freebsd.h"'>> tm.h echo '#include "i386/perform.

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskslice.c src/sys/sys diskslice.h src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c

2000-10-31 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 16:16:26 +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > At Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:03:02 -0800 (PST), > Kenneth Merry wrote: > > ken 2000/10/29 23:03:02 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/kern subr_diskslice.c > > sys/sys diskslice.h > > sys/ca

Re: Intel Etherexpress support?

2000-10-31 Thread Gerhard Sittig
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 00:08 +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > Without looking at any of your code, I would kindly like to ask > you not to look at the Linux driver for eexpress too much - > it's severely broken and has all kinds of timing problems that > can crash boxes at predictable moments (s

Re: platform byte order macros?

2000-10-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:13:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 06:11:49PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:34:06AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > +#ifdef __OPTIMIZE__ > > > > > > > > Using m

Re: Need help to boot (was : -current hangs during boot)

2000-10-31 Thread Vittorio Mori
> > Hello FreeBSD-hackers. > > > > I had my first CVSup-ed source tre d/loaded today. It compiled correctly > > (make buildworld) and installed correctly (make installworld). > > Mistake #1 was CVSuping -CURRENT. [...] > NOTE #3. Your machine is probably totaly broke. And you will need to > rein