Re: complicated downgrade

2003-07-22 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 23:40:05, des wrote about Re: complicated downgrade: I need to downgrade a remote FreeBSD system from 5.1-release to 4.8-release remotely without any local help (except possible hitting Reset). Maybe if you tell us why you need to do this we can figure out a way for you

Re: Where / how to begin the FreeBSD development journey?

2003-07-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Shawn wrote: I did peruse the bugs list at the FreeBSD web site curious as to what the current outstanding issue list was, and felt compelled to see if there was anything left open that I might put my hand to and felt a bit overwhelmed. I noticed that there are over 2,000 some entries with

Re: differences in USB support between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x ?

2003-07-22 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:46:36PM -, Larry Baird wrote: 5.x seems to have much better support for USB 2.0 as well. I have a SanDisk 2.0 USB compact flash reader that just works with 5.1 release. So far no amount of kernel hacking has made it work with 4.8. Unfortunetly for me I

Re: Correct way to call execve?

2003-07-22 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:24:43AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: Chad David wrote: I assumed it was obvious that you could copy the data, but I believe the intent of the original question was to find an alternative. As far as I know there isn't one. A const is a const, except in C++. Yes,

Re: differences in USB support between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x ?

2003-07-22 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:04:21AM +0200, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Monday 21 July 2003 15:00, Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:18:42AM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: [I sent the same message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but since that list seems not very active, I am asking

nVidia nForce2 potential owners please read

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
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Re: complicated downgrade

2003-07-22 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:01:06AM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 23:40:05, des wrote about Re: complicated downgrade: I need to downgrade a remote FreeBSD system from 5.1-release to 4.8-release remotely without any local help (except possible hitting Reset).

Re: differences in USB support between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x ?

2003-07-22 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:36:50PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: PR about this (with patch) back in April. **(: HINT HINT :) ** ( pr kern/51186 : http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern%2F51186 ) I'll take a look at this. Thanks Bernd, Joe -- Josef Karthauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: complicated downgrade

2003-07-22 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:20:30, bmilekic wrote about Re: complicated downgrade: This sounds like the same symptoms as the latest USB problem... when/if you track -current or even run one of the 5.x releases, it's key to realize that this is very active code that you're running; it's

Re: Communications kernel - userland

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Migus
Robert Watson said: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: For example syscall is marking some range with mark() function. For now on this range isn't accessable from userland. If process will try to write to this page, page is copied (copy-on-write). If this page will be

Re: Communications kernel - userland

2003-07-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Adam Migus wrote: Perhaps I'm not understanding you right but I think Pawel's idea is cool. It seems to fulfill your requirements (except being network specific). I suppose if it were network specific we could optimize it for packet streams and if we made it

Re: differences in USB support between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x ?

2003-07-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:04:21AM +0200, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: : On Monday 21 July 2003 15:00, Bernd Walter wrote: : On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:18:42AM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: :[I sent the same

Re: Communications kernel - userland

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Migus
Robert Watson said: Well, the case I had particularly in mind was the rapid flow of packets form the kernel to the user process; Pawel's suggestion handles the flow of new data from the user process to the kernel well, and has substantial similarity to some of the IO Lite mechanisms I

sys/dev/ppbus/lpt.c advanced mode not available, polling

2003-07-22 Thread othermark
I posted a message earlier to -stable, but maybe this a better forum for this question. I have a print server at home running -stable, and as part of bootup I run lptcontrol -e to enable extended mode on the port (since it comes up in compatible mode, I could set this with flags in the kernel).

Re: running 5.1-RELEASE with no procfs mounted (lockups?)

2003-07-22 Thread Adam Migus
Terry Lambert said: The problem is that ktrace/kdump rendesvous at a file; truss does not, so it has some capabilities that ktrace does not. In some circumstances (e.g. a system crash, where kdump doesn't get a chance to get at the file, because it's cleaned up and not even fully

nVidia nForce2 potential owners please read (take two)

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
This only made it to one list the first time, trying again. These newfangled computer things clearly can't be trusted. - Ok, so, it occured to me recently to try to convince nVidia to cough up programming documentation for

Re: Where / how to begin the FreeBSD development journey?

2003-07-22 Thread Shawn
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 02:04, Terry Lambert wrote: There's a wide range of options, from the expensive to the free online stuff. At the high end, we have: $1300 https://www.mckusick.com/courses/introorderform.html $1500 https://www.mckusick.com/courses/advorderform.html Sadly, he doesn't