DMA in drivers?

2000-10-22 Thread Chris Ptacek
I am in the process of writing a PCI driver for an encryption card. The specifications state that the DMA Destination Address, DMA Dest. Length, DMA Source Addr, and DMA Source Length should be loaded into registers in the card. Part of the info states: "This register is used to establish the P

Re: Routing issue with cable modem

2000-10-22 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 06:35:02PM -0400, Marko Ruban wrote: > Joel said HTML was badly formatted, so I'm resubmitting in plain text. > Thanks :) While the HTML in that message was particularly difficult for humans to parse, in genersl sending mail formatted in HTML is frowned upon since many of

Re: can't build custom kernel

2000-10-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Len Conrad writes: : >First thing: read /usr/src/UPDATING. : : but I'm not UPDATING, I've installed to virgin disk from 4.1.1 iso-image. The problem is that you need to add the ISA compat shims: options COMPAT_OLDISA # compatability shims fo

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ronald G Minnich writes: : On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Ronald G Minnich wrote: : : > I'm booting to single-user in 3 seconds using these things. The IDE delays : > are high, even for Flash IDE, so going for the socket is a good thing. : should have said: single user Linu

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-22 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Miller writes: : SanDisk makes a IDE-like flash card one could plug into a $30 USB : flashcard reader. : : Would FreeBSD have any idea how to boot off such a beast? Alternatively, : anyone know of an ISA/PCI adapter with enough bios on it to boot off a : sim

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:11:06AM +0200, stop here. start everywhere. wrote: > Hi all again, > > Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Leif Neland
> Hi all again, > > Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to > upgrade the whole system in one shot? > > What if somethin

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:11:06AM +0200, stop here. start everywhere. wrote: > Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Jordan Hubbard
> Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD > has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" > command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to > upgrade the whole system in one shot? Not anywhere near as "risky" as upgrad

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread stop here. start everywhere.
Hi all again, Speaking of this subject again, I have read in the archives that FreeBSD has a method of building the whole source tree using the "make world" command. Although this is a nice feature, but isn't too much risky to upgrade the whole system in one shot? What if something breaks down a

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to > > > > > choose from to drive our website. > > > > > > > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. > > > > > > Also if some things don't work or work

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to > > > > choose from to drive our website. > > > > > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster. > > > > Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly > > documented, find

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux

2000-10-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
James Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe a correct and true statement is "FreeBSD is a direct decendant > of Unix(TM). Based on the BSD sources" I don't think there's all that much left of the original BSD sources... at least not in the kernel. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL

Re: Dynamic memory allocation from non-C code

2000-10-22 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 09:24:08PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>How do I dynamically allocate/free memory from programs that do not use >>the C library (e.g., assembly language programs)? > >If you don't link with the C library, you will need to use the >sbrk(2)/brk(2) interface to extend you

Re: Dynamic memory allocation from non-C code

2000-10-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: >This is probably a stupid question, but I have not been able to figure it >out on my own: > >How do I dynamically allocate/free memory from programs that do not use >the C library (e.g., assembly language programs)? If you don't link wi

Dynamic memory allocation from non-C code

2000-10-22 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
This is probably a stupid question, but I have not been able to figure it out on my own: How do I dynamically allocate/free memory from programs that do not use the C library (e.g., assembly language programs)? I looked through syscalls.master but could not find anything resembling malloc in it.

Free Pascal compiler version 1.0.2 beta for FreeBSD is officially out !

2000-10-22 Thread Marco van de Voort
Hello, It is with great pleasure that the Free Pascal Development Team announces that Version 1.0.2 beta for FreeBSD 4.x + of the Free Pascal compiler has been officially released. This is a first beta version, commandline only, and not all packages are checked for FreeBSD compability. I

Re: can't build custom kernel

2000-10-22 Thread Leif Neland
> First thing: read /usr/src/UPDATING. The proper procedure to > build a kernel is in there. To save you some time: > > cd /usr/src > make buildkernel KERNEL= > make installkernel KERNEL= > > If the build still fails, then yes, you have a legitimate problem. > At least when

Conflicting C/H/S values

2000-10-22 Thread Trent Nelson
Could someone explain to me why the following HDD BIOS Geometries don't represent the values proposed by the drives. What am I missing? (snippets from boot -v) BIOS Geometries: 0:030c7f3f 0..780=781 cylinders, 0..127=128 heads, 1..63=63 sectors 1:03fefe3f 0..1022=1023 cylinders