Re: Testing requested: Hybrid ISO/USB boot

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > Benno Rice wrote: >> I’ve been working on the ability to create hybrid ISO/HDD boot images for >> x86, a la what Linux systems do with ISOHYBRID. > > Waving friendly

Testing requested: Hybrid ISO/USB boot

Hello all! I’ve been working on the ability to create hybrid ISO/HDD boot images for x86, a la what Linux systems do with ISOHYBRID. The general theory seems to be that ISO images have a 32KB hunk of zeroes at the front that they generally ignore so we’ll stick something in there that can

Re: Current amd64 new error or warning from today's current with ruby r320323

> On Jun 26, 2017, at 13:25, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 02:53:14PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Konstantin Belousov >> wrote: >> >>> No need, I understood why MAP_STACK failed in this

Possible bug in or around posix_fadvise after r292326

Hi Konstantin, I recently updated my dev box to r292962. After doing this I attempted to set up PostgreSQL 9.4. When I ran initdb the last phase hung. Using procstat -kk I found it appeared to be stuck in a loop inside a posix_fadvise syscall. I could not ^C or ^Z the initdb process. I could

Re: Possible bug in or around posix_fadvise after r292326

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 22:05, Benno Rice <be...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi Konstantin, > > I recently updated my dev box to r292962. After doing this I attempted to set > up PostgreSQL 9.4. When I ran initdb the last phase hung. Using procstat -kk > I found it app

Re: pmspcv panic on boot on this box

Can you try the attached patch and let me know if it fixes the issue? Many thanks, Benno. pmspcv.diff Description: Binary data On Jul 30, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Benno Rice be...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi Larry, I’ve brought this to the attention of PMC Sierra and we’re pretty sure

Re: pmspcv panic on boot on this box

Hi Larry, I’ve brought this to the attention of PMC Sierra and we’re pretty sure we’ve worked out what the problem is. I’m just waiting on their review of the fix I’ve suggested. Sorry this has caused you problems. Many apologies, Benno. On Jul 28, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Larry Rosenman

Re: UEFI

On 03/10/2013, at 3:35 AM, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sunday, September 22, 2013 3:00:22 pm Michael Copeland wrote: I noticed on freebsdnews that UEFI support could make it into release. https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/projects/uefi/ I've tested

Re: UEFI

On 03/10/2013, at 7:46 AM, Michael Copeland mich...@kryptos-security.com wrote: Hmm Should I build with GCC? Yes, the in-tree version of clang doesn't understand __attribute__((ms_abi)) and so it won't generate the Microsoft function call code that UEFI expects. You'll need gcc = 4.7 so

Re: Patch to teach config(8) about platforms.

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:46, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:32:51PM +1100, Benno Rice wrote: Agreed. There's an advantage there, but see also my reply to Juli about the use of machine to mean MACHINE_ARCH and the use of platform to mean MACHINE. This I don't find

Re: Patch to teach config(8) about platforms.

. This means making adding new platforms easy and quick. Juli's system allows this. The current system doesn't. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Patch to teach config(8) about platforms.

includes. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Patch to teach config(8) about platforms.

do. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Patch to teach config(8) about platforms.

to use is a good idea, but for the moment I'd be happy with not forcing mips and powerpc down the same road as pc98 which I see as being overly painful and confusing. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Patch to teach config(8) about platforms.

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 17:25, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:56:10PM +1100, Benno Rice wrote: No, I see MACHINE_ARCH implied by where you run config. This seems strange and I'm not completely sure it's a good thing, but MACHINE_ARCH is defined in /sys/${ARCH

kthread.9 out of date

I have just discovered the hard way that the kthread.9 manual page is slightly out of date. Having never done man page work before, I've attached a diff of the proposed change and if someone could give this a once-over and fix and/or commit it, that'd rock. Thanks. =) -- Benno Rice [EMAIL

Re: Thread state

this is at http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/kse_switch.patch It has been tested on sparc64, alpha, and i386 all with SMP. I would like to commit it soonish. Comments? I think it's a great idea. No problems from here. =) -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: PAM broke?

libpam. This took me about an hour to track down. =( -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: PAM broke?

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 13:43, Daniel Eischen wrote: On 16 Apr 2002, Benno Rice wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 10:07, Dan Eischen wrote: Fresh cvsup and buildworld from today's -current seems to have broken pam logins for telnet and ssh. Fresh mergemaster too. [snip] Any clues

Re: Intel i830 driver?

On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 15:17, James Satterfield wrote: Anyone working on one of these? What kind of driver do you mean? I have an i830MP chipset in my Dell Inspiron 4100 and it's working fine. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: ACPI autoload failed -- unable to install (fwd)

unless you can give us information like that. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED

adiff in relatively soon. This causes some breakage in PowerPC but I'm working on it. Go ahead and commit and I'll fix PowerPC up after. --=20 Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=-c5mu7fd8+iIeadXPJgcR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description

Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED

and I'll fix PowerPC up after. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

FreeBSD/powerpc commit candidate for review

have been set to go to freebsd-ppc. -- Benno Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature

Re: Patch to allow overriding of nm in lorder, genassym.sh

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:09:12AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Benno Rice wrote: genassym.sh and lorder.sh are also missing support for the -aout/-elf command line option, and this breaks building of kernels in a non-native object format. I think the correct fix is is to set

Re: Patch to allow overriding of nm in lorder, genassym.sh

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:12:05PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Benno Rice wrote: As to the use of a prefix, I just thought it'd be easier to be able to completely override the name of the binary we're using in the same way that I could do: setenv CC /usr/local/bin/ultra

Re: Patch to allow overriding of nm in lorder, genassym.sh

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:18:41PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Benno Rice wrote: Does anyone object to me committing the attached patch? It basically allows the overriding of nm in lorder(1) and sys/kern/genassym.sh using the environment variable NM. I've been