On 2000-12-17 22:12 -0700, Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
David Preece wrote:
At 13:02 17/12/00 +, you wrote:
Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple
examples
that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
Yeah, but in what sense is that use of Mach a serious
microkernel, if it's only got one server: BSD? I've never
understood the point of that sort of use. It makes sense for a
QNX or GNU/Hurd or minix or Amoeba style of architecture, but
how does Mach help
Any comments or suggestions welcome.
Fix doscmd, which does the emulation in userland (which is even better
than running as a KLD).
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents,
Wes Peters wrote:
Devin Butterfield wrote:
This is IMHO one of the advantages linux has over FreeBSD. You can run
by your local Barnes Noble bookstore and pick up a copy of "Linux
Device Drivers" and start writing code that you actually understand.
And they'll run fine in Linux
Yes, after a cold boot.
The machine is dual boot Windows ME (came with the laptop, need it for
DVD!!)
The output of dmesg is below - should I turn of Plug and Play in the BIOS?
Dmesg
-
Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991,
As I remember, way back in the mists of 1990 when I first encountered a NeXT
box, one of the principal reasons for selecting the Mach 2.x micro kernel was
"mach messaging". This was a unified mechanism for almost all IPC both within
one host or distributed over a network, where eg. sockets
Any word on the latest "Unsupported PHY" , or info that will help me or
someone else fix it?
DB
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As far as I know there is no progress yet.
I understood from the replies (and searching the archive) that Intel has the
key to the solution, in that they need to provide the required information
on what has changed in the rev-8 cards.
I'm not sure what else can be done, can there?
Possible
Hi
Im using FreeBSD 4.2 STABLE and I have a problem.
I cant get the swedish accent character to work. Pressing the key to the left
of the backspace key on my swedish keyboard followed by e should produce it
but it doesnt. If I press alt+gr+*/'+e I will get something that looks like it
but
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer writes:
: I have the pci/isa driver skeleton pretty up-to-date, but it doesn't
: have any DMA example code, nor does it have any sample code for
: pccard or cardbus .
Aren't there two kinds of DMA that we need to worry about? Those that
are "isadma"
Any comments or suggestions welcome.
Fix doscmd, which does the emulation in userland (which is even better
than running as a KLD).
What's wrong with doscmd ? I hadn't noticed this one used BSD filesystems
in addition to image files. That was my #1 issue with some of the other
emulators.
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
# Which list would be more appropriate for asking advice on designing a
# mail processing strategy for FreshPorts 2 (i.e. processing all of cvs-all,
# not just the ports)?
#
# I'm looking for recommendations and guidance on how to capture the
#
"JSF" == Joseph Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JSFIf you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
JSF (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever) you'll need to setup some
JSF sort of queue, then have a cron job come through and process the
JSF queue.
Or, you could use a
On 18 Dec 2000, at 11:22, Joseph Scott wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
# Which list would be more appropriate for asking advice on designing a
# mail processing strategy for FreshPorts 2 (i.e. processing all of
# cvs-all, not just the ports)?
#
# I'm looking for
On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:58, Vivek Khera wrote:
"JSF" == Joseph Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JSF If you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
JSF (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever) you'll need to setup some
JSF sort of queue, then have a cron job come
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
# "JSF" == Joseph Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
#
# JSF If you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
# JSF (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever) you'll need to setup some
# JSF sort of queue, then have a cron job come
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:01:58PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: I hate to give up a line for
:
: if (data)
: free(data);
:
: but neither do I care for ``if (data) free(data);''. I guess if I
: were writing
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
# If you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
# (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever) you'll need to setup some
# sort of queue, then have a cron job come through and process the queue.
#
# Thanks. Since posting my
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: None taken. It is however a simple and safe optimization, with no
: apparent downsides. It has the same attraction as using bit shifts
: instead of multiplication/division, or saving the value from a function
: call that will be needed
On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:03, Joseph Scott wrote:
Let's say, at a minimum you want the queue to run every 30
minutes. However, if there are a large number of commits in the queue,
you may want to be able ramp up to queue processing as quickly as every 5
minutes. If there's only two items
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
# On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:03, Joseph Scott wrote:
#
# Let's say, at a minimum you want the queue to run every 30
# minutes. However, if there are a large number of commits in the queue,
# you may want to be able ramp up to queue processing as
On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:11, Joseph Scott wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote:
# On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:03, Joseph Scott wrote:
#
#Let's say, at a minimum you want the queue to run every 30
# minutes. However, if there are a large number of commits in the queue,
# you
:: None taken. It is however a simple and safe optimization, with no
:: apparent downsides. It has the same attraction as using bit shifts
:: instead of multiplication/division, or saving the value from a function
:: call that will be needed again later, even if you know the function call
:: is
Does anyone happen to have patches for FreeBSD 4.2 to make the pcm driver
drive the sound device in the Dell Latitude CPt (identified as vendor
0x125d, dev 0x199[89])? If so, could you either send them to me or
provide a pointer to them?
Thanks,
Guy
--
Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Sr. Software Engineer,
"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote:
I doubt that you could measure any difference between
if (foo) free(foo);
and free(foo);
Nevertheless, I tend to write it that way at times -- maybe because it
seems so natural to me to ask `do I need to free this thing?' -- and
that gets translated
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:22:58AM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote:
If the problem is load then another approach would be to heavily
nice(1) the perl script the is launched when a commit mail comes in.
I could be wrong, but I think there's a potential problem with this
strategy -- namely,
: I find that I still use the:
:
:if( foo )
:free( foo );
:
:...syntax a large part of the time. It's a habit developed before you
:could trust the free() implementation on every platform to conform to
:sanity. It also prevents me from getting into the habit of using syntax
:that
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:40:43AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: None taken. It is however a simple and safe optimization, with no
: apparent downsides. It has the same attraction as using bit shifts
: instead of
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:23:11AM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:58, Vivek Khera wrote:
"JSF" == Joseph Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JSFIf you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
JSF (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever)
On 18 Dec 2000, at 11:11, Gary Kline wrote:
elm used to have a program /usr/local/bin/filter that did
what you want to do, I think. There were concise examples
in the elm documentation and it worked well if the load wasn't
extremely heavy. I used the filter binary
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: Ever notice that you tend to send more email when you should be studying
: for a final?
That's why Style(9) wars break out this time of year. :-)
: /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */
: if (data)
Hi guys,
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Gregory Sutter wrote:
On 2000-12-17 22:12 -0700, Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sergey Babkin wrote:
Look at the DaemonNews (www.daemonnews.org), the Blueprints
column. If I remember the months correctly, in the July 2000
issues there is an
At 1:11 PM -0600 12/18/00, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
Ever notice that you tend to send more email when you should be
studying for a final?
I did notice that I write very few letters now, compared to when
I was in college and still facing exams/finals...
/* Case 1 */
I haven't been able to find a driver for this ethernet card, so I'm
working on porting the Linux driver over. It seems to have "natsemi"
coded in as the default device mnenomic. Is it a good idea to pull this
name directly over to FreeBSD? So my Ethernet interface would be natsemi0
instead of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Luce
writes:
: I haven't been able to find a driver for this ethernet card, so I'm
: working on porting the Linux driver over. It seems to have "natsemi"
: coded in as the default device mnenomic. Is it a good idea to pull this
: name directly over to FreeBSD?
On my previous message, please ignore the designation I gave for the
card. The card I'm messing with is a Bay Netgear FA311, based on the
National Semiconductor DP83815. My pasting ability was somewhat hampered
during the last composition.
Doug
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I haven't been able to find a driver for this ethernet card,
That's because it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as a "National
Semiconductor 82c168/82c169." There is such a thing as a National
Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPHYter), and there's also such a thing as
a Lite-On 82c168/82c169
"JS" == Joseph Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JS How does postfix determine that a message has been delivered
JS though? From reading Dan's first message, my though was the problem was
JS doing the processing of the commit, all the db stuff, which would happen
JS after the perl script had
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer writes:
: I have the pci/isa driver skeleton pretty up-to-date, but it doesn't
: have any DMA example code, nor does it have any sample code for
: pccard or cardbus .
Aren't there two kinds of DMA that we need to worry
I was wondering why VESA_800x600 refreshes to 80x25 and figured out,
that
size[0] = 80; /* columns */
size[1] = 25; /* rows */
for mode SW_VESA_800x600 (line 319 of src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol.c).
A screen resolution of 800x600 would make
size[0] = 100; /* columns */
size[1] = 37; /* rows
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */
if (data) vs. free(data)
free(data);
I don't see that Case 1 obfuscates anything. In some cases I find it
clearer: Case 1 implies that
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Michael C
. Wu" writes:
: IIRC, NetBSD doesn't have the newer StrongARM SA-11xx ports.
: And that's why we have to work from ARM/Linux.
In conversations that I had with an unnamed vendor a while ago, the
newer parts should be just a few days of casual effort to
Any comments or suggestions welcome.
Fix doscmd, which does the emulation in userland (which is even better
than running as a KLD).
What's wrong with doscmd ? I hadn't noticed this one used BSD filesystems
in addition to image files. That was my #1 issue with some of the other
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], bsd_appliance@bemail.
org writes:
I specifically need to know, if possible, how to display hardware-
rendered character- and software-rendered pixel-based images on the
same display at the same time.
This is not possible with straight VGA.
If the graphics aren't
Speaking of video operations... does anybody know where I can find
some decent VGA programming documentation? (Or, if possible, someone
who knows a few obscure details.)
I specifically need to know, if possible, how to display hardware-
rendered character- and software-rendered
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Michael C
. Wu" writes:
: IIRC, NetBSD doesn't have the newer StrongARM SA-11xx ports.
: And that's why we have to work from ARM/Linux.
In conversations that I had with an unnamed vendor a while ago, the
newer parts should be just a few days of
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Warner Losh scribbled:
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Michael C
| . Wu" writes:
| : IIRC, NetBSD doesn't have the newer StrongARM SA-11xx ports.
| : And that's why we have to work from ARM/Linux.
|
| In conversations that I had with an unnamed vendor a
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Danny Braniss wrote:
hi all,
I can't get the pxe/dhcp to work when it's 100Mbit Ethernet, it works
fine when it's 10Mbit. Actually a newer Intel MB just succeeded, but 99%
of the pxe enabled cards fail at 100Mbit. from sniffing the net the broadcast
dhcp request
I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive comparison that shows off
the strengths of FreeBSD when compared to alternative operating
systems. In particular, I would like information about :
* Large BSD installations
* Performance advantages of FreeBSD
* Specific subsystems where
"Michael C . Wu" wrote:
[sent to -small too]
I would be quite interested. But do we have the resouces and the man-hours
to handle IA-64/KA-64/PPC/Alpha/StrongARM at the same time? I am
very interested in the PPC and StrongARM port, but there are so few of
us on -ppc... Perhaps the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Michael C . Wu" writes:
: Do you use the gcc embedded optimizations?
No. Not directly. My install script assumes that
: | which lets you tweak things to year heart's delight. Every time I go
: | to put this script up, I run into the "oh, but I want it to do X Y
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:21:27PM -0700, Warner Losh scribbled:
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Michael C . Wu" writes:
| : Just an idea/question:
| : Can we possibly use crunchgen to generate a big binary for userland tools
| : only? Then we can drop in new binaries with ease.
|
| No. I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Michael C . Wu" writes:
: Would 20mb be a comfortable target for
: "make buildsmallworld installsmallworld" ? The build would have to
: be interactive. And the interactive build can record all the
: options/choices done by the user for future builds. That
:
Hello Murray,
Monday, December 18, 2000, 2:51:25 PM, you wrote:
MS I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive comparison that shows off
MS the strengths of FreeBSD when compared to alternative operating
MS systems. In particular, I would like information about :
Here are some suggestions to
: I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive comparison that shows off
:the strengths of FreeBSD when compared to alternative operating
:systems. In particular, I would like information about :
:
:* Large BSD installations
:* Performance advantages of FreeBSD
:* Specific subsystems
Hey gang,
for some reason, when I boot off the FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE floppies or the
CD-ROM, one of my drives isn't recognized. Here's what the system looks like:
ASUS K7V, Athlon 850, 512MB
on the on-board IDE controller..
1st channel:
Maxtor 54098U8 UDMA4
Kenwood CD-R
What's wrong with doscmd ? I hadn't noticed this one used BSD
filesystems
in addition to image files. That was my #1 issue with some of the other
emulators.
It needs a lot of TLC; there are plenty of places where it could be
usefully extended as well.
One might also consider
Is there anything special I need to do to edit a section in the
handbook, or can I just commit it?
-Matt
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Hello, I am Kieko Aoyama.
I am working at Compaq Computer K.K. in Japan.
Please tell me the way of
"getting boot.flp,fixit.flp,,kern.flp from FTP directory"
But,
I know the location of FTP directory,and I am going to getting these files
to floppy disk(1.6MB).
And I get the ERROR "You
"Aoyama, Kieko" wrote:
Hello, I am Kieko Aoyama.
I am working at Compaq Computer K.K. in Japan.
Please tell me the way of
"getting boot.flp,fixit.flp,,kern.flp from FTP directory"
But,
I know the location of FTP directory,and I am going to getting these files
to floppy
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