RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Wes Peters wrote: http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/NVIDIA_Drivers Does anyone know how/if/when this will bleed over to FreeBSD? A killer cheap OpenGL box might be kinda fun to have, and I'm already in the market for another desktop. TNT cards have

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Chris Piazza
On 03-Jun-99 Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 03-Jun-99 Wes Peters wrote: http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/NVIDIA_Drivers Does anyone know how/if/when this will bleed over to FreeBSD? A killer cheap OpenGL box might be kinda fun to have, and I'm already in the

SGI releases source code of OpenVault

1999-06-03 Thread Pavel Narozhniy
Hello Free downloads of source code of OpenVault here: http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/openvault/ Does anybody want to port it to FreeBSD? -- Pavel Narozhniy nic-hdl: PN395-RIPE http://www.sumy.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Flipping ARP ?

1999-06-03 Thread Michael R. Wayne
Running 3.2 RELEASE, I have 2 fxp cards (one on the motherboard) with two different addresses plugged into the same HP 2424M switch (not broken into seperate VLANs yet). About once an hour, fxp0 seems to steal the arp for fxp1 for one second: Jun 3 00:04:16 sgm1 /kernel: arp: 00:90:27:23:9e:ea

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Chris Piazza wrote: Just downloading the XFree86 source right now and I'm going to build it overnight assuming it works. If not I'm sure it'll be fun (heh) to track down. Yeah.. Building X is a bit of a dog I've found.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Johan Jansson wrote: NVIDIA has released OpenGL drivers for Linux/X, with source, for all their chipsets. It also seems they intend these to be used as a base for other platforms as well (BeOS for example). Here is from the faq: This

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 03-Jun-99 Chris Piazza wrote: Just downloading the XFree86 source right now and I'm going to build it overnight assuming it works. If not I'm sure it'll be fun (heh) to track down. Yeah.. Building X is a bit of a dog I've found.. Well

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Yeah.. Building X is a bit of a dog I've found.. Well if you're interested in binaries the bzip2'd binary of XF86_SVGA seems to be a little over 1 meg. Hmm.. well I wouldn't mind a copy :) Do they work OK? ---

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 03-Jun-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Yeah.. Building X is a bit of a dog I've found.. Well if you're interested in binaries the bzip2'd binary of XF86_SVGA seems to be a little over 1 meg. Hmm..

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Do they work OK? MD5 (XF86_SVGA.bz2) = 2502eb1d8b48a052ffe831b147094fbd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1286643 Jun 2 23:27 XF86_SVGA.bz2 - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: It seems to work, but I have no real way of testing any added functionality as I've got a TNT based card (which a stock XFree86 supported already). I've put a copy up at: http://redwood203.marin.k12.ca.us/alex/XF86_SVGA.bz2 Thanks. You could try

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 03/06/99, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 03-Jun-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: It seems to work, but I have no real way of testing any added functionality as I've got a TNT based card (which a stock XFree86 supported already). I've put a copy up at:

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 02:17:43AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Johan Jansson wrote: NVIDIA has released OpenGL drivers for Linux/X, with source, for all their chipsets. It also seems they intend these to be used as a base for other platforms as well

Re: Kernel config script:

1999-06-03 Thread Greg Black
Wes Peters writes: And, as far as *word processors* go, troff, nroff, and ed pretty much suck. Don't get me wrong, I completely agree they are useful tools, as borne out by the number of books that have been typeset over the years using troff. But a word processor they DO NOT make. Clearly

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi, I have a Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2) and the patches appears to work 8) It was not hard to build cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 make mid way of building the X makefiles I paused the build and apply the NVidia's patches which are only for the nvidia software modules. continue the build. Copy

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: Will try later on to run xbench to see how fast is this card. my system is a Pentium III 450 Mhz with 128mb of SDRAM and obscene amount of memory compare to what I used to have to develop X Servers with (8MB of memory) back in the 386bsd days. Some info

Re: SGI releases source code of OpenVault

1999-06-03 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Pavel Narozhniy wrote: Hello Free downloads of source code of OpenVault here: http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/openvault/ Does anybody want to port it to FreeBSD? -- Pavel Narozhniy nic-hdl: PN395-RIPE http://www.sumy.net I guess there might be those

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Johan Jansson wrote: NVIDIA has released OpenGL drivers for Linux/X, with source, for all their chipsets. It also seems they intend these to be used as a base for other platforms as well (BeOS for example). Here is from the faq: This

devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST. Trying to newfs a 9 GB file system on the IBM, newfs got wedged in physst. At that point I had to reset (since I ran newfs on the serial

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST. Following up on myself, the box just panicked (softdep_write_complete: lock held). DES --

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST. Following up on myself, the box just panicked

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to replace the old (and dying) Quantum Fireball ST.

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@ifi.uio.no writes: I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing

Re: 3.2-STABLE, 11th panic

1999-06-03 Thread Don Lewis
On Jun 2, 11:40am, David E. Cross wrote: } Subject: 3.2-STABLE, 11th panic } Here is a backtrace from our latest. Does anyone have any ideas to try. Is } there any way to loock at who has the other lock on the file? (Yes, I know } it is the kernel who has it, but it is requested on behalf of a

The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Zhihui Zhang
The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. The maxcontig value of FFS is default to be 16, which means 16*8192 or 128K bytes (twice as big as 64K) . If we raise the value of MAXPHYS, we can put more data blocks of a

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Jos Backus
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. Just a guess: maybe this has something to do with DMA address counters on ISA cards being 16 bit? (ducks) Or is

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Jos Backus wrote... On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. Just a guess: maybe this has something to do with DMA address counters on ISA cards

3.2 bug/problem?

1999-06-03 Thread Dennis
In v3.2 (and not in 3.1 or before) when we bring down a PTP interface (with if_down(ifp)) we get a console messages SIOCGIFADDR: Can't assign requested Address What might this be? Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Jos Backus
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:05:46AM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: I think the 64K value may have been chosen because cards like the Adaptec 1542 can't handle more than that. That's exactly the card I was thinking about (I used to own one). So I was close :) -- Jos Backus

3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread David E. Cross
Our home directory NFS server went down again today, same bat-panic. This time it went down on .Maillock (usually it goes down on a netscape cache file or .Xauthorit-c. Piecing some more together I modified my old crash_patoot.c file (which didn't cause any problems), to the new and improved

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Jimbo Bahooli
On 6/2/99 at 11:42 PM Wes Peters wrote: Johan Jansson wrote: NVIDIA has released OpenGL drivers for Linux/X, with source, for all their chipsets. It also seems they intend these to be used as a base for other platforms as well (BeOS for example). Here is from the faq: This distribution is

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread David E. Cross
Just need to make a small amendment to the instructions for the previous prgram. I am unable to cause a panic by running it on just one machine, I need to have it run on 2 machines accessing the same file. client1% ./crash_patoot cp1 client2% ./crash_patoot cp1 -- David Cross

Re: Kernel config script

1999-06-03 Thread Olof Samuelsson
Wes == Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com writes: Wes If you mean lack of competition would make UNIX more homogenous and Wes more viable to every Tom, Dick, and Jane that comes down the pike, Wes I will agree with that. I just disagree that this is success. UNIX Wes was never meant to be a word

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Zhihui Zhang wrote ... The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. The maxcontig value of FFS is default to be 16, which means 16*8192 or 128K bytes (twice as big as 64K) . If we raise the value of MAXPHYS, we

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Jos Backus wrote ... On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. Just a guess: maybe this has something to do with DMA address counters on ISA

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-06-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
of useless. It's like doing uphill testing of a fat guy on a bicycle against a Lamborghini - you know the result beforehand. Unfortunately, what you're probably not aware of is that the fat guy also has a JATO unit strapped to the back of his bicycle. Don't make assumptions. :-) If

Re: pccard boot.flp for *plain* 3.2-RELEASE

1999-06-03 Thread Jordan Hubbard
The patches applied almost cleanly to 4-CURRENT. Fixing the glitches was easy. The PCCARD file was out of date with respect to CURRENT, so I re-engineered it. Great, thanks for doing this. I just talked to Tatsumi-san yesterday about this work and would be very happy to see it go in if you'd

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'm not surprised. I think this is similar to the other known NFS panics. I haven't had a chance to reproduce it yet ( may not be able to until after USENIX ). I have to say, though, that in order to fix these bugs I really do need my commit privs back. If people want these

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Amancio Hasty
Silly me , I was wondering what happen to you . I vote that your commit priviliges should not be taken away by the Dark Side of core and should be re-instated. Also wondering if this is perhaps a good time to split up FreeBSD along commercial / professional lines -- we can leave the silly core

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Matthew Dillon wrote: I have to say, though, that in order to fix these bugs I really do need my commit privs back. here here -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Silly me , I was wondering what happen to you . I vote that your commit :priviliges should not be taken away by the Dark Side of core and :should be re-instated. : :Also wondering if this is perhaps a good time to split up FreeBSD :along commercial / professional lines -- we can leave the

expr pitfall (FYI)

1999-06-03 Thread Mark J. Taylor
Well, I found an ugly today. Nothing to do with FreeBSD, directly, just one of those pitfalls that you run into that is juicy: expr '1' : '\(.*\)' returns 1, exit status of 0 expr '0' : '\(.*\)' returns 0, exit status of 1 expr 0 + 0 returns 0, exit status of 1 Why is this an error

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Amancio Hasty
I really have gone over and over the issue of the Dark Side of core not just with myself but with other hackers and I am afraid that there is no easy solution on sight aside from having a commercial entity where individuals are held accountable and when they step way out of line they can be fire.

Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Nate Williams
[ Some history: I'm not a core member (I gave that up responsibility years ago), but I was one of the three weirdo's that started up FreeBSD back when I had no life. My opinions are my own, and don't reflect the core team. I don't know the exact reasons why the core team removed Matt's commit

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Mike Smith
I have to say, though, that in order to fix these bugs I really do need my commit privs back. If people want these things fixed, complain to core. I have the time to fix the bugs with commit privs, but I just don't have the time or inclination to fix them without.

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon writes: : : I have to say, though, that in order to fix these bugs I really do : need my commit privs back. If people want these things fixed, : complain to core. I have the time to fix the bugs with commit : privs, but I just don't have the time or inclination

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Perhaps we can cut through all the finger pointing and counter-finger pointing here and just move on to the chase by asking one simple question: Will you be at USENIX? That would be an excellent opportunity to discuss it in person, where emotion and facial-expression stripping isn't such a huge

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12 (simplified)

1999-06-03 Thread David E. Cross
I had the hunch that the problem I am dealing with related to the unlink portion of NFS... So I have simplified the code down to this tiny snipet which will reliably crash the system (I left it running by accident and it brought my test machine down 3 times before I remembered to kill it :). This

FreeBSD routing

1999-06-03 Thread Joseph E. Eggleston
I've been trying to understand some odd behavior in FreeBSD and I'm wondering if anyone has an explanation for what's going on. I'm using a FreeBSD box as a router in some tests. I cause congestion at the router by sending more packets through it than the outgoing link can handle (10Mbps). What

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Perhaps we can cut through all the finger pointing and counter-finger :pointing here and just move on to the chase by asking one simple :question: Will you be at USENIX? That would be an excellent :opportunity to discuss it in person, where emotion and :facial-expression stripping isn't such a

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Excellent. Let's assume then that all the core folk who are there, plus any committers who have an interest in the issue (since core has to listen to its developers' opinions too or we can no longer honestly claim to represent their interests), will be getting together during the week to discuss

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:.. :behavior problem with Linux : I do an ftp download in a linux box and :periodically I see a slight pause -- VA research snap back saying that :the problem was due to the VM / Scheduler and that they couldn't :fix it because Linus held tight control over that section of the kernel. : :I would

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Jos Backus
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: 20 bits. But older cards can do no more than 64 kB. Indeed, 20 bits (=1 Mbyte) for the address, 16 bits for the transfer counter (offset). -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Reliability means never

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: : 20 bits. But older cards can do no more than 64 kB. : :Indeed, 20 bits (=1 Mbyte) for the address, 16 bits for the transfer counter :(offset). : :-- :Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Reliability means never MAXPHYS

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
MAXPHYS is ultimately a limitation on the size of the b_pages array in the struct buf structure. The default is 128 KBytes. Device Drivers are supposed to break up I/O's into manageable sections themselves. Maybe when the buffer I/O / VFS subsystem is rewritten later

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:08 PM -0700 6/3/99, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Excellent. Let's assume then that all the core folk who are there, plus any committers who have an interest in the issue (since core has to listen to its developers' opinions too or we can no longer honestly claim to represent their

Re: Kernel config script:

1999-06-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
Leo Papandreou l...@talcom.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 07:31:57PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: And, as far as *word processors* go, troff, nroff, and ed pretty much suck. ... Thats absolutely correct. They have no built-in diversion to cope with writer's block. With MS-Word you can futz with

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-06-03 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Jordan Hubbard wrote ... of useless. It's like doing uphill testing of a fat guy on a bicycle against a Lamborghini - you know the result beforehand. Unfortunately, what you're probably not aware of is that the fat guy also has a JATO unit strapped to the back of his bicycle. Don't

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Matthew Dillon wrote ... :.. :behavior problem with Linux : I do an ftp download in a linux box and :periodically I see a slight pause -- VA research snap back saying that :the problem was due to the VM / Scheduler and that they couldn't :fix it because Linus held tight control over that

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I second this. Even if it's a bit painful, somebody who has been working diligently at this needs to be able to be make their work usable quickly. I would guess that not too many things hinder progress, or quash desire more than fixes to problems languishing. There has to be some middle ground

Possible conflict in nameser.h

1999-06-03 Thread Larry Baird
I have found a small problem in nameser.h in the ns_rr structure. This structure has a member named class that causes a compilation problem if you include nameser.h into C++. I suspect that I may be the only person to ever hit up against this (:. Any comments before I summit a bug report? --

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 03-Jun-99 Jaye Mathisen wrote: I second this. Even if it's a bit painful, somebody who has been working diligently at this needs to be able to be make their work usable quickly. I would guess that not too many things hinder progress, or quash desire more than fixes to problems

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Jake Burkholder
Hi, I spent most of the day recompiling X and what not. All the patches applied cleanly, there are some rejects with MESA, but I think that has to do with tags and comments at the beginning of files. Everything compiled fine, and the module loads, now I just need to get my hands on quake2 :)

Re: Possible conflict in nameser.h

1999-06-03 Thread John Plevyak
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 06:55:19PM -0400, Larry Baird wrote: I have found a small problem in nameser.h in the ns_rr structure. This structure has a member named class that causes a compilation problem if you include nameser.h into C++. I suspect that I may be the only person to ever hit up

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Amancio Hasty
It is a nice idea and I have proposed it in the past however most likely such organization will devolve to the current status-quo with core;however, if the oversight committee is composed of individuals from companies using FreeBSD it may actually work for committee should have a vested interest

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+[ Matthew Dillon ]- | | addressed years ago were left to rot. All that is needed is a reality | check. You want to get Rowdy Roddy Piper on to the core team? d8) -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 03-Jun-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: It is a nice idea and I have proposed it in the past however most likely such organization will devolve to the current status-quo with core;however, if the oversight committee is composed of individuals from companies using FreeBSD it may actually work for

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
[I rearranged the things since these folks can't be bothered to comment at the bottom] Vince Vielhaber wrote: Not knowing the FULL story from both sides, I feel it'd be inappropriate if I were to comment on it. However knowing Matt's coding abilities, having seen the eruption here a few

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 04-Jun-99 Chuck Robey wrote: [I rearranged the things since these folks can't be bothered to comment at the bottom] Vince Vielhaber wrote: Not knowing the FULL story from both sides, I feel it'd be inappropriate if I were to comment on it. However knowing Matt's coding abilities,

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread John S. Dyson
Nate Williams said: Case in point, John Dyson's comments explanation to the mailing list for many of his design decisions explained to even an uninformed person like me that some of the changes you've made were penalizing FreeBSD, not helping it in some cases. BTW, my frustration was due

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread John S. Dyson
Amancio Hasty said: Silly me , I was wondering what happen to you . I vote that your commit priviliges should not be taken away by the Dark Side of core and should be re-instated. It wasn't the dark side of core, it was the panic'ed and worried part of core that was seeing things happening

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Amancio Hasty
Chuck Robey wrote: [I rearranged the things since these folks can't be bothered to comment at the bottom] Vince Vielhaber wrote: Not knowing the FULL story from both sides, I feel it'd be inappropriate if I were to comment on it. However knowing Matt's coding abilities, having

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Brian Somers
[.] Someone who has this much spare energy for tracking down ancient problems in technologically-uninteresting code should be getting some reward for it. In a project like this, it seems to me that the standard reward is a certain degree of respect, and I think Matt's recent work has

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The learning curve would have been much less painful if questions :would have been asked and/or the answers weren't ignored. (There were :cases of my answers and suggestions not even being challenged, but :were rejected out of hand.) After a while, the *only* way to be :heard was to become

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Brian Somers
It wasn't the dark side of core, it was the panic'ed and worried part of core that was seeing things happening without careful review. The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. The reaction was (IMHO)

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Just realize, IF you're loud enough, and succeed, the programmers will all desert you, and you'll have a nice place to argue, but no more software. Core here does an excellent job, with all the problems they face, most committers will agree to

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Brian Somers wrote: The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. The reaction was (IMHO) the right thing to do. I think where the problem lied is very relevent. If the problems are

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread John S. Dyson
It wasn't the dark side of core, it was the panic'ed and worried part of core that was seeing things happening without careful review. The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. The reaction was

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread John S. Dyson
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Brian Somers wrote: The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. The reaction was (IMHO) the right thing to do. I think where the problem lied is very relevent. If the

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
: It wasn't the dark side of core, it was the panic'ed and worried : part of core that was seeing things happening without careful review. : :The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the :instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. :The reaction was

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
The biggest mistake that programmers working on a large project make is when they do *not* rewrite portions of the code that need to be rewritten. For a case in point you need look no further then the buffer cache and device I/O code. It's so messed up that even I could only

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 04-Jun-99 Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote: Just realize, IF you're loud enough, and succeed, the programmers will all desert you, and you'll have a nice place to argue, but no more software. Core here does an excellent job, with all the problems they

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
: I sure do not intend those hacks to remain in there forever! The I/O : subsystem is a holy mess. The only reason I'm not working on it right now : is because I think Poul is intending to work on it later in the year. : : :Now I'm getting a bit torqued at this. Yes, there are

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-06-03 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 03:49:49AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: of useless. It's like doing uphill testing of a fat guy on a bicycle against a Lamborghini - you know the result beforehand. Unfortunately, what you're probably not aware of is that the fat guy also has a JATO unit strapped

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
:Now I'm getting a bit torqued at this. Yes, there are problems here, :but rather than keeping it to yourself what the problems are, how about :being constructive in suggesting ways we can all improve things. A number of conversations and threads have already taken place on the

Once upon a time (was: Matt's Commit status)

1999-06-03 Thread Andrew Atrens
Hi Matt, -core, et al, Speaking as a long time user of FreeBSD I am continually impressed by the quality of _all_ the people involved, their work and their dedication. I don't pretend to know the burdens of -core, but I do feel strongly that this is the wrong medium for this discussion. As has

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Wes Peters
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: +[ Matthew Dillon ]- | | addressed years ago were left to rot. All that is needed is a reality | check. You want to get Rowdy Roddy Piper on to the core team? d8) No. Jessie the Hack Ventura. Of

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12 (simplified)

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I had the hunch that the problem I am dealing with related to the unlink :portion of NFS... So I have simplified the code down to this tiny snipet which :will reliably crash the system (I left it running by accident and it brought :my test machine down 3 times before I remembered to kill it :).

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Wes Peters
John S. Dyson wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Brian Somers wrote: The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. The reaction was (IMHO) the right thing to do. I think where the problem lied is

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread Peter Wemm
Brian Somers wrote: It wasn't the dark side of core, it was the panic'ed and worried part of core that was seeing things happening without careful review. The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent.

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread John S. Dyson
And this nonsense in another email about things being untested is also complete bull. I had a machine dedicated to running test kernels 24 hours a day. I still do. Testing on local machines isn't generally sufficient, due to the need for running diverse applications in various

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-03 Thread John S. Dyson
Some sort of arrangement/understanding/procedure/whatever would need to be worked out to make sure that everybody involved understands everybody's angle so that we don't repeat it all over again. Maybe some of the groundwork can be done at usenix next week, but not all everybody will be