Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

Duncan Barclay wrote: I've put Pavel's patches at http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz Duncan Thanks. Appreciated. Will try it out and inform you and the List of my findings -- Feisal Webcraft Solutions - http://www.webcraftsolutions.com --

Re: Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

Duncan Barclay wrote: I've put Pavel's patches at http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/bfe-4.8.tar.gz Built the module if_bfe manually and booted up my 4.9-p2-RELEASE on Dell Inspiron 8500. Feb 7 16:10:09 roxanne /kernel: bfe0: Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaff irq 11 at

KERNBASE

Hello: I'm a newbie to the kernel and trying to understand parts of kernel by reading its source codes. I'm reading sys/i386/i386/locore.s. There is a macro definition in the file sys/i386/i386/locore.s: #define R(foo) ((foo)-KERNBASE)

KERNBASE

Hi, I'm a newbie to the kernel. I'm trying to understand the kernel by reading kernel source codes. In the sys/i386/i386/locore.s, there is a macro #define R(foo) ((foo)-KERNBASE) But in the sys/conf/ldscript.i386, .. SECTIONS { . = kernbase + 0x0010 + SIZEOF_HEADERS

mostly-reentrant resolver/getaddrinfo(3)

I spent a bit of time a few days ago making the resolver and getaddrinfo(3)'s DNS functions a little more reentrant than before, with the results that Mozilla is behaving much nicer than normal -- if one thread (view or tab in each window, for example, but I forget the Mozilla terminology) is

Re: mostly-reentrant resolver/getaddrinfo(3)

BTW, a slightly more complete patch that has the diffs for /usr/include/resolv.h and also should correctly close the sockets that each thread opens for the resolver can be found here: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/mostly_reentrant_resolver.patch -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman