diskless configuration, was ... diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
im modifying libstand/bootp.c, and im trying to read a file via tftp/nfs, while i'm sure i'll figure it out - eventualy, can someone help me out here? thanks, danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
> Danny, > > What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new > set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel > env dhcp variables are really good. I know that many do want to do what > you are doing (large scale RO /); but up until now /etc/rc.

Re: Errors in qt30 build

2002-04-24 Thread Igor Roboul
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:58:39AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > from kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:77: > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h:34: syntax error before `;' > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h:37: syntax error before `;' > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftFreet

Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?

2002-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:38:08 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TL> Only if you reserved a window for it. Say 1G of KVA, though last I was thinking more like 1M, or even a few K, it sounds like that's not possible. TL> I checked the bank selection granularity wasn't fine en

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Christian Flügel
- Original Message - From: "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Steve Kargl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:20 AM Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails >You're still actually running your 4.

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:58:42PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:49:52PM +0200, Chri

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
Oh, wait, I see the chicken and egg that you are talking about... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:58:42PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:49:52PM +0200, Christian Flügel wrote: > : > : > But I still get signal 12 exceptions when trying to installworl

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread David O'Brien
Danny, What do you think about doing a little more polishing and rolling a new set of patches taking this /etc/rc.conf option into account? Your kernel env dhcp variables are really good. I know that many do want to do what you are doing (large scale RO /); but up until now /etc/rc.diskless* ha

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <004d01c1eb8a$bfadfef0$594bfea9@bender> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Flügel) writes: : solved the problem. Maybe this should be put in UPDATING? I've added a note to the effect that you can safely ignore this warning. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
Alright, so I got tired of trying to figure out if glibc is doing something wierd or wrong so I downloaded the source for it, and I'm looking at it now... (for version 2.2.2 which is what we have on FreeBSD's linux_base-7) and here's what I'm seeing: pushl %ebp pushl %ebx pushl %e

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:49:52PM +0200, Christian Flügel wrote: : : > But I still get signal 12 exceptions when trying to installworld. : > It seems to me that the install process still uses my old kernel an

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <001e01c1eba7$ad27ff70$594bfea9@bender> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Flügel) writes: : - Original Message - : From: "Steve Kargl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:29 PM : S

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Makoto Matsushita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : sgk> Note the Error code 1(ignored). : : That's right, it's not an actual *error*. : : However, we have seen such a report so many, many times. We may want : to consider changing src/sys/conf/kmod.mk

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <003801c1eb8a$0e786530$594bfea9@bender> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Flügel) writes: : make installkernel: stops with error: "kldxref not found" That's not an error, just a warning and can safely be ignored. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <005e01c1eb13$cce043c0$594bfea9@bender> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Flügel) writes: : - Original Message - : From: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
You have to do, as UPDATING tells you: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster for things to work right. The Sig 12 are from new system calls in the newly compiled binaries. You m

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / disklessbooting

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:19:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: : > diskless_root_readonly="NO" # Make it "YES" for readonly : : good. What's wrong with the current root_rw_mount knob? Warner To Un

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Now Available / disklessbooting

2002-04-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : The very original "solution" was to mount NFS / RW. The move to : /conf/default/etc was someone's special needs leaking into the FreeBSD : repository. If you want to special case, things be my guest -- add

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> yeah, I did that already, and have been running with that since yesterday > :-P > > still not working right though... I think it has something to do with that > nargs thing... I'm checking that out now... > Ehh, apparently sy_narg is getting set correctly too: struct linux_mmap2_args {

Re: Cross-platform releases

2002-04-24 Thread Makoto Matsushita
ru> A fast -CURRENT box with root access for "make release" would be ru> highly appreciated. My 500MHz Celeron is too slow for this. snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org and associate build machines are all P3-500Mhz, not so fast like Celeron 500Mhz... ru> There are no syscall issues in my version because

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > > Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes: > > > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > > > > Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as > > > > something unique l

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/linux/linux_sysvec.c,v > retrieving revision 1.99 > diff -u -2 -r1.99 linux_sysvec.c > --- linux_sysvec.c 4 Apr 2002 17:49:46 - 1.99 > +++ linux_sysvec.c 24 Apr 2002 23:57:23 - > @@ -711,4 +711,5 @@ > args[3] = tf->tf_esi; >

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Here's where it happens: > sys/i386/linux/linux_sysvec.c > > static void > linux_prepsyscall(struct trapframe *tf, int *args, u_int *code, caddr_t *params) > { > args[0] = tf->tf_ebx; > args[1] = tf->tf_ecx; > args[2] = tf->tf_edx; > args[3] = tf->tf_esi; >

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I'm actually still not seeing a match between what's in truss, and what's > > in my printed-out args, but it seems to be working anyway... > > > Argh, it's not working again... It was working on an install of ms office, > but it won't work on some old windows game.. (win

Re: panic at shutdown, ums related?

2002-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > USB is pretty hosed. :-( > > For a while, removing the mouse didn't get detected and you had to kill moused > manually. Then the removal event happened. A new moused would start but it > was impossible to kill -9 the old moused. If you remove the mouse again, it > instantly

Re: panic at shutdown, ums related?

2002-04-24 Thread Peter Wemm
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > backtrace from the console, no core dump: > panic: Removing other than first element > > usb_transfer_complete > uhci_device_intr_abort > usbd_ar_pipe > usbd_abort_pipe > ums_disable > ums_close > spec_close > ... > > It seems I may get it at every shutdown,

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Makoto Matsushita wrote: > sgk> Note the Error code 1(ignored). > > That's right, it's not an actual *error*. > > However, we have seen such a report so many, many times. We may want > to consider changing src/sys/conf/kmod.mk to shut it up. Or deleting "klxref" entirely. If it's ignorable, t

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I'm actually still not seeing a match between what's in truss, and what's > in my printed-out args, but it seems to be working anyway... > Argh, it's not working again... It was working on an install of ms office, but it won't work on some old windows game.. (winex) and it's still not setting t

Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?

2002-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:04:34 -0700 > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TL> FreeBSD doesn't currently support bank selection. Peter was > TL> working on it, last time I heard. Linux supports it, at an > TL> incredible performance penalty. > > This

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > > libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save > > > ebp in the trapframe. > > > > So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the > > linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port > > for this, so as far as I can tell,

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save > > ebp in the trapframe. > > So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the > linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port > for this, so as far as I can tell, it should wo

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:49:52PM +0200, Christian Flügel wrote: > But I still get signal 12 exceptions when trying to installworld. > It seems to me that the install process still uses my old kernel and I am > not able to load the new one. Could anybody please tell me how to achieve > this? Yo

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Apr-2002 Kenneth Culver wrote: >> >> Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes: >> > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: >> > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. >> > > Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as >> > > somethin

Spin lock (?) problems with MUTEX_PROFILING

2002-04-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
Hi all, I am not generating a false alarm, but I compiled a fresh kernel yesterday with the MUTEX_PROFILING option, and it just went haywire just after the FreeBSD copyright messages and the build info: [ Copyright Info ] [ Build Information ] panic: spin lock mutex profi

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Apr-2002 Kenneth Culver wrote: >> libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save >> ebp in the trapframe. > > So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the > linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port > for this,

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save > ebp in the trapframe. So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port for this, so as far as I can tell, it should work... assum

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes: > > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > > > Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as > > > something unique like 0xdeadbeef? Then print out (i

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I tried printing out everything in the trapframe in hex and nothing looke remotely right. Ken On 24 Apr 2002, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > > Can you make a test progra

Re: UTF-8 support.

2002-04-24 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:22:54AM -0600, Kyle Butt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's going on as far as adding utf-8 based locales? > How can I help? There were some widechar support related imports from CITRUS project as I recall, but all the work seems to be stalled at the moment. I guess i

Errors in qt30 build

2002-04-24 Thread Beech Rintoul
I tried building qt-3 today and it errors with the following: gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt30/work/qt-copy-3.0.3/src' g++ -c -pipe -fno-exceptions -I/usr/local/include -Wall -W -g -pthread -D_THREAD_SAFE -fPIC -DQT_SHARED -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Christian Flügel
- Original Message - From: "Steve Kargl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:29 PM Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails > If you start at 4.5 and upgrade to current, then the > installkernel sh

Re: Cross-platform releases

2002-04-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:44:04AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > ru> This is just a heads up for anyone interested that I have just > ru> started working on a cross-platform "make release" issue so that > ru> "make release TARGET_ARCH=alpha" on an i386 box would produce a > ru> working Alph

panic at shutdown, ums related?

2002-04-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, backtrace from the console, no core dump: panic: Removing other than first element usb_transfer_complete uhci_device_intr_abort usbd_ar_pipe usbd_abort_pipe ums_disable ums_close spec_close ... It seems I may get it at every shutdown, so if there's something I should look at... Bye, Alexan

Re: CURRENT panic + patch

2002-04-24 Thread Maxime Henrion
Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > Hint: Now if only someone could commit it ... Done, thanks. Maxime To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Makoto Matsushita
sgk> Note the Error code 1(ignored). That's right, it's not an actual *error*. However, we have seen such a report so many, many times. We may want to consider changing src/sys/conf/kmod.mk to shut it up. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Apr-2002 Christian Flügel wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:05 AM > Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails > > >> On Tue, Apr

Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?

2002-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:04:34 -0700 Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TL> FreeBSD doesn't currently support bank selection. Peter was TL> working on it, last time I heard. Linux supports it, at an TL> incredible performance penalty. This inspired an off the wall thought that may

Re: CURRENT panic + patch

2002-04-24 Thread Maxime Henrion
Alexander Kabaev wrote: > Calling freeenv with the pointerm different from one received from > getenv seldom is a good idea :) [...] Indeed. Sorry for this yet another freeenv() breakage ; this patch looks good. Maxime To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

CURRENT panic + patch

2002-04-24 Thread Alexander Kabaev
Calling freeenv with the pointerm different from one received from getenv seldom is a good idea :) Indeed, CURRENT panics with the following stack trace (patch below fixes that): _mtx_lock_sleep(c08300e4,0,c03644b1,649,c08300e4) at _mtx_lock_sleep+0x122 _mtx_lock_flags(c08300e4,0,c03644b1,649,c03

Re: Cross-platform releases

2002-04-24 Thread Makoto Matsushita
ru> This is just a heads up for anyone interested that I have just ru> started working on a cross-platform "make release" issue so that ru> "make release TARGET_ARCH=alpha" on an i386 box would produce a ru> working Alpha release. Wonderful! If there are any tasks I can help for you, feel free

Re: still ATA problems with promise tx2

2002-04-24 Thread mika ruohotie
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:17:27PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems mika ruohotie wrote: > > i might be able to provide more information if this sounds like > > something which shouldnt be happening. (trace, whatever needed) > That would be most helpfull, where does it panic, what is the >

UTF-8 support.

2002-04-24 Thread Kyle Butt
What's going on as far as adding utf-8 based locales? How can I help? Kyle Butt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > > Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as > > something unique like 0xdeadbeef? Then print out (in hex :) th

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as > something unique like 0xdeadbeef? Then print out (in hex :) the trapframe > from the linux prepsyscall rout

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Steve Kargl
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:22:49PM +0200, Christian Flügel wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:17 PM > Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails > > > > make installkernel: stops w

Cross-platform releases

2002-04-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! This is just a heads up for anyone interested that I have just started working on a cross-platform "make release" issue so that "make release TARGET_ARCH=alpha" on an i386 box would produce a working Alpha release. The next task will be to support cross-branch "make releases" so that a 4.x b

Re: what if/diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
> Note that Luigi has recently committed something similar to create the > sysctl kern.bootp_cookie (see /sys/nfs_client/bootp.c rev 1.36). > i will check that out asap. > I have also been doing the same thing for some time, but the difference in > my version is that I use four separate DHCP op

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Christian Flügel
- Original Message - From: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails > make installkernel: stops with error: "kldxref not found" OK. I figured this one out for myself. cd usr.sbi

Re: what if/diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Danny Braniss wrote: > > i modified libstand/bootp.c to place all the tags - that dhcp provides - in > the kernel > environmet, so that they can be used later - eg in rc.diskless1. > > what if: > we place the rc.conf[.local] there? > in the dhcpd.conf: >

Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails

2002-04-24 Thread Christian Flügel
- Original Message - From: "Kris Kennaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christian Flügel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:05 AM Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.5 to current fails > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:55:37PM +0200, Christian Flügel wrote: > >

RE: Locking down a socket, milestone 1

2002-04-24 Thread John Baldwin
On 24-Apr-2002 Seigo Tanimura wrote: > I am now working on locking down a socket. (I have heard that Jeffrey > Hsu is also doing that, but I have never seen his patch. Has anyone > seen that?) My first milestone patch is now available at: > > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tanimura/patches/sock

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Kenneth Culver writes: > OK, I THINK I found what calls the actual kernel syscall handler, and > sets it's args first, but I'm not sure: > > from linux_locore.s > > NON_GPROF_ENTRY(linux_sigcode) <...> > Does anyone who actually knows assembly have any ideas? This is the linux sigtramp

Re: new expr(1) behaviour breaks libtool

2002-04-24 Thread John Hay
> > I have just committed code to expr which will cause it to behave more > like the old expr did in the presence of an EXPR_COMPAT environment > variable. Ports can then be set up to build with this variable > defined until the libtool maintainers fix up their act. Thanks, with this and some p

Re: still ATA problems with promise tx2

2002-04-24 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems mika ruohotie wrote: > > hello, > > i couldnt decide from reading the list if there should or shouldnt > be problems with promise ata/100 controller with current. I dont think so... > anyway, i have problems with it. > > i've tried several current versions from the devel snapshot to

still ATA problems with promise tx2

2002-04-24 Thread mika ruohotie
hello, i couldnt decide from reading the list if there should or shouldnt be problems with promise ata/100 controller with current. anyway, i have problems with it. i've tried several current versions from the devel snapshot to apr 22nd and all of those fail after installation. in the floppy

Locking down a socket, milestone 1

2002-04-24 Thread Seigo Tanimura
I am now working on locking down a socket. (I have heard that Jeffrey Hsu is also doing that, but I have never seen his patch. Has anyone seen that?) My first milestone patch is now available at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tanimura/patches/socket_milestone1.diff.gz The works I have done so f

Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?

2002-04-24 Thread Terry Lambert
David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Writing a useful (non-"fluff") technical book, optimistically, > > takes 2080 hours ... or 40 hours per week for 52 weeks... a man > > year. > > > > By the time you are done, the book is a year out of date, and > > even if yo

Re: panic: clist reservation botch

2002-04-24 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > This was from the TrustedBSD MAC branch, but it's not clear to me that > this relates to the MAC patches. Have't seen this before; this box is > a pxe-booted NFS-mounted system. Kernel and userland may be out of sync, > but all modules should be in sy

what if/diskless booting

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Braniss
at stage 1, the diskless host sends out a bootp/dhcp request, the dhcpd servers sends back some packets, and pxeloader gets tftp'ed. i modified libstand/bootp.c to place all the tags - that dhcp provides - in the kernel environmet, so that they can be used later - eg in rc.diskless1. what if: