4.1-stable crash.

2000-10-02 Thread FengYue
Hi, could someone take a look at this crash. The box is a 4.1-stable as Sep 6th. Any hints on what could have caused the crash? This box crashs almost every 3-5 days. Thanks! ==cut here= gdb -k kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [GDB mess

RE: process scheduling quantum

2000-10-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 02-Oct-00 Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > Suppose a process is scheduled to run, will it run until its quantum ends > unless it calls tsleep() on his own? In other words, is it possible for a > process to give up its quantum earlier without having it to do so > voluntarily? Thanks. If an interrupt o

Re: atomic operations

2000-10-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 25-Sep-00 Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > Kevin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I found the atomic_* functions in , but noticed that they >>have no return value. What I need is a function that increments/decrements >>the given value *and* returns the new value in an atomic operation. I >>suppose t

Re: Blowfish passwords

2000-10-02 Thread Mark Murray
> It patches cleanly against -STABLE and -CURRENT, and only touches > libcrypt. Take a look at it, feedback/patches are welcome, and if you > like it, maybe someone can integrate it into -CURRENT. (I don't know > whose dept. this would be -- Mark Murray perhaps? ) > >http://www.frenchfries.

XFreeBSD Install - 4.1-RELEASE #:0 Fri Jul 28 14:30:31 GMT 2000

2000-10-02 Thread Loony Bomber
Ok it's a bad thing to submit to a mailing list I don't subscribe to, but, the FreeBSD Handbook says general comments should be posted here, and I am inspired, dammit. The purpose of this comment is to provide general comments on the installation of FreeBSD - RELEASE 4.1. It took me about one da

Re: if_de driver woes

2000-10-02 Thread Peter Wemm
Dennis wrote: > It might be useful if someone familiar with the driver answered, but there > seems little hope of that. Nearly all the older (pre-100Mbit) tulip cards are different to the other older ones. The newer ones based on the 2114[0123] chips had a lot more in common and generally requ

Making /etc/defaults/rc.conf a configuration file.

2000-10-02 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
Hi, With these patches, and the new tiny util 'sourceconf', we can make /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/periodic.conf configuration files again, such that they can be parsed by things other than 'sh'. It also allows you to set 'rc_conf_files' (or, actually, whatever you set filevar to) i

Re: mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Black
> > > >This is still very obscure; I'd like to see: > > > > > > > > size (was 1234, should be 5678) > > > > cksum (was 42424242, should be 69696969) > > > > > > > >...so that it's clear what the meaning of the numbers is. > > > > > > In that case I think I would like to loose the

Re: mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Mike Smith
> > >This is still very obscure; I'd like to see: > > > > > > size (was 1234, should be 5678) > > > cksum (was 42424242, should be 69696969) > > > > > >...so that it's clear what the meaning of the numbers is. > > > > In that case I think I would like to loose the ',' also. >

Re: mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Jon Parise
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:46:56AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > > > size (was 1234, should be 5678) > > > cksum (was 42424242, should be 69696969) > > > > > >...so that it's clear what the meaning of the numbers is. > > > > In that case I think I would like to loose the ',' als

Re: mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Black
> >This is still very obscure; I'd like to see: > > > > size (was 1234, should be 5678) > > cksum (was 42424242, should be 69696969) > > > >...so that it's clear what the meaning of the numbers is. > > In that case I think I would like to loose the ',' also. While you're

Re: if_de driver woes

2000-10-02 Thread Adam
Maybe if you just answered the question for the benefit of anyone else who might be able to help but not willing to until you act like you appreciate or deserve it. On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: >It might be useful if someone familiar with the driver answered, but there >seems little hop

Re: if_de driver woes

2000-10-02 Thread Dennis
It might be useful if someone familiar with the driver answered, but there seems little hope of that. Maybe the guy that broke it...which would mean someone who modified it since 2.2.8 came out. You know who you are., but unfortunately the audit trail in the source is useless since there

Re: if_de driver woes

2000-10-02 Thread Adam
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote: >At 02:01 AM 10/01/2000 -0400, you wrote: >>On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Dennis wrote: >> >> > >> >The saga continues. the de driver in 4.1 now doesnt properly detect the >> >media of original SMC BNC cards. Upgrading an old system proved quite an >> >adventure. >> > >>

Re: mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< said: > >> make "extra" and "missing" attributes in the output >> rather than prefixes which can be confused with filenames. > >> Don't do the "run-in" of the first attribute with a short >> filename > >This looks like

mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > make "extra" and "missing" attributes in the output > rather than prefixes which can be confused with filenames. > Don't do the "run-in" of the first attribute with a short > filename This looks like a good change, but while you're there: > size

mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I would like to change the outputformat of mtree(8) to be more systematic and machine-readable. The changes amount to: make "extra" and "missing" attributes in the output rather than prefixes which can be confused with filenames. Don't do the "run-in" of the first attri

process scheduling quantum

2000-10-02 Thread Zhiui Zhang
Suppose a process is scheduled to run, will it run until its quantum ends unless it calls tsleep() on his own? In other words, is it possible for a process to give up its quantum earlier without having it to do so voluntarily? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Rink Springer
- Original Message - From: "Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rink Springer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver. Hi! > : 4.1-RELEASE. > > OK. That's the problem. You need to use newbus rather than the

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <001d01c02c95$fc7eede0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Rink Springer" writes: : Okay... the source is at http://www.rink.springer.cx/tmp/if_dl.c. I agree : that using ppc is a very good idea, and I'm definatly going to do that once : it works (I'm not going to from start because I hope to use this

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, Okay... the source is at http://www.rink.springer.cx/tmp/if_dl.c. I agree that using ppc is a very good idea, and I'm definatly going to do that once it works (I'm not going to from start because I hope to use this driver for NetBSD too eventually, and FAIK, it doesn't support ppc). Thanks!

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <001801c02c94$83c6ce00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Rink Springer" writes: : Well, I've taken out the parallel driver from my kernel (and ppbus as well). : So, someone got any ideas? Would it help if I quickly dump my source file : online? Yes. It likely would. What version of FreeBSD are you

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Rink Springer
- Original Message - From: "Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rink Springer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver. Hi, > In message <000f01c02c89$089ca840$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Rink

Re: if_de driver woes

2000-10-02 Thread Dennis
At 02:01 AM 10/01/2000 -0400, you wrote: >On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Dennis wrote: > > > > >The saga continues. the de driver in 4.1 now doesnt properly detect the > >media of original SMC BNC cards. Upgrading an old system proved quite an > >adventure. > > > >db > >You seem to have forgotten to attach

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <000f01c02c89$089ca840$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Rink Springer" writes: : Hi, : : I am currently working on a driver for the D-Link DE620 Parallel Ethernet : card driver. I used the if_el.c code as a base, for it appears to be a : relatively easy driver (my driver is called dl0 BTW, for D-Li

Re: Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread takawata
In message <000f01c02c89$089ca840$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rink Springer" さんい わく: > >But, for some reason, the new kernel never probes for the driver! Can anyone >tell me what I might have missed? In order to add the driver, I've added > >i386/isa/if_dl.c optional

Need some help developing my ethernet driver.

2000-10-02 Thread Rink Springer
Hi, I am currently working on a driver for the D-Link DE620 Parallel Ethernet card driver. I used the if_el.c code as a base, for it appears to be a relatively easy driver (my driver is called dl0 BTW, for D-Link. Anyknow know if this conflicts somewhere?). Anyhow, the problem is: I've gotten Fr

Blowfish passwords

2000-10-02 Thread Paul Herman
Hi, I've come up with a small patchset to libcrypt (ported from OpenBSD) which adds the blowfish password digest in addition to des and md5. Features include: * Compatibility with OpenBSD (for those of us using NIS) * switchable behavior in /etc/login.conf (passwd_format=bf) * ability to

Re: finding source to functions

2000-10-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Nat Lanza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tend to feed my tree to LXR, which has a nice function search, along > with a wrapper for glimpse and some reasonable source browsing. I have > my own hacked version, but the original code can be found at > http://lxr.linux.no. It was written to index the

Re: finding source to functions

2000-10-02 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Marc Tardif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I find the source to specific functions in /usr/src/sys? http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source> DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the me