Re: KDE installation

2013-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uot;YES" and reboot or run (as root) /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 start Then select KDE as your session type and login. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with > the 0x10 flag." Yes but that is about sio, not uart. sio(4) has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console 0x00020 device is forced to become system console but uart(4) just has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console -- Daniel O'Connor softwa

Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ould say it's a hangover from sio(4) where 0x20 forced the device in question to be the console. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ly is written assuming everyone uses a VPN. There is no logic behind the use of the VNC protocol but bastardised enough that normal clients can connect. That inspired me to send a longer rant to Supermicro about it, maybe nothing will come of it but I feel better ;) -- Daniel O'Connor sof

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
$work we use a USB interface to acquire ~10MB/sec from a data acquisition system which has a 96k FIFO (which is ~10 msec of buffering). We use 3ware RAID cards to write to disk on Supermicro boards though, you get what you pay for.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Ge

Re: Custom FreeBSD usb memstick

2012-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
se/release (Obviously /dev/da1 should be your USB key, check dmesg etc etc) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fi

Re: trafficserver and raw disk access in FreeBSD

2012-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as read access so it can run dump. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
emory (pendrive). ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version of the same basic idea. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.co

Re: Can I take a snapshot of the current stack for every thread in some process from outside?

2012-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ing gdb, but it requires the process to exit the system call to > attach (?). > DTrace is only activated particular sensors are crossed. > > So is there such a tool/command? Will gcore do what you want? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://

Re: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
rs> >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@** >> freebsd.org " >> > _______ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 28/12/2011, at 22:07, Chris Rees wrote: > Is there a simple way to check for existence of a driver? I could > even check for /dev/sndstat, though that doesn't seem elegant to me... kldstat -v, but really /dev/sndstat seems simpler and just as effective. -- Daniel O'Con

Re: Measuring memory footprint in C/C++ code on FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ich I did, but I found > descriptions of certain fields of struct rusage in the manpage too cryptic to > make a proper use of the call. >Could someone please point me in the right direction? getrusage should be portable and the man page (at least on FreeBSD) explains each of the field

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/10/2011, at 19:13, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Daniel O'Connor" writes: >> I'd be interested in testing your workaround(s) :) > > It wasn't a workaround, actually, just a one-line change that enables > additional logging (when running with f

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nge of options, from "just fixing the bug > so those who want to use it can" in one end to "finding someone willing > to clean it up and maintain it and enable it by default" in the other. > > (no, I'm not volunteering to maintain it) I'd be interested in

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-to-live. If I am installing ports which create a new user or group I have to restart nscd. I also find if openldap dies (not infrequent) I have to restart nscd after restarting openldap.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The

Re: Installation of kernel symbols file in a separate directory [Was: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2]

2011-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dules files. By default ${KODIR_SYMBOLS} = ${KODIR}. Hooray, thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fin

Re: CAM framework for FLASH devices

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
devices. The > flash device supports write, read and flush operation. Sector size is 512 > byte. But it doesn't support any ATA or SCSI commands except flush. > I think you could use make_dev() etc.. although I haven't used it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: CAM framework for FLASH devices

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(I haven't really looked in detail though..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerp

Re: Detach USB Device Driver and Attach it to ugen driver at runtime

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. I suspect you wouldn't be able to if the kernel driver that did attach is in use, but I am not sure. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&qu

Re: best way to get distfiles added to ports.tgz during make release

2011-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an tweak to your hearts content and it is considerably faster than pkg_add. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerp

Re: Best GB Nic for 8.2?

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Any Intel one. They come in both PCI and PCIe forms. I have a.. Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L) (that's the chip in it anyway, I can't remember the model number) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au &quo

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
art man > page doesn't seem to mention the list command, which is probably why I > missed it. Anyways, now all I have to do is label my hotswap drawers > properly…. Yes, unfortunately(?) 'list' is a standard GEOM command so the part man page doesn't explicitly mention i

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking > at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does > anyone have an idea? If you run 'gpart list' you will see a list of device names and UUIDs. Mapping it by hand is a bit tedious though.. -- Daniel

Re: [LIBC] Modfied Version of sscanf

2011-04-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
("%d %s->%s\n", i, name, value); exit(0); } -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanen

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
simulate" > SUM. My point is that the difference is only in your brain. The kernel doesn't know the difference because there isn't one. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tion of world and kernel, bla, > bla..., what is NOT a subject, of this "thread" > > > DO YOU KNOW, what to look for, in sys that will indicate to my function, > that it is in SUM? Well, I give up. You aren't reading & thinking about what I'm writing. -- Danie

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n /etc/rc which causes the problem. Your example doesn't say why you need to be in single user mode when using geli.. The only reason you need to be in single user mode during an upgrade is so that running programs don't find libraries ripped out from under them and then they crash. I

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
utdown > now) in SUM. There IS no "solution" because it isn't really a problem. You still didn't reply to my asking why you need to know.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t; How can I fiducially ensure that I am in SUM. > On what to rely/look on. Oh oops, I guess the kernel runs init -s which then asks you.. > I wana put it in sh's function, for usage in scripts. Why? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://ww

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hen you boot into single user mode it asks you want to run rather than starting /sbin/init. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andre

Re: listing all modules compiled into a kernel instance

2011-03-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
expectation was that "kldstat -v" would list it, if present, but it > does not. A design flaw? Sounds like a bug, but I'm not sure where.. Maybe ucom doesn't appear because it doesn't have a DRIVER_MODULE() declaration (because it isn't a driver). -- Dani

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04/02/2011, at 13:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I am writing a program which reads from a data acquisition chassis connected > to a radar via USB. The interface is a Cypress FX2 and I am communicating via > libusb. I ended up writing a kernel driver (thank you hps for usb_fifo_

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04/02/2011, at 13:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I only have about 10 milliseconds of buffering (96kbyte FIFO, 8Mbyte/sec) in > the hardware, however I have about 128Mb of USB requests queued up to libusb. > hps@ informed me that libusb will only queue 16kbyte (2msec) in the ke

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ta analysis. > It takes a considerable amount of VM/buffer-cache tuning to get those > subsystems to pipeline properly and sometimes things can go stale and > stop pipelining properly for months without anyone realizing it. :( I am waiting on a new buffer card with 8 times bigger FIF

Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls

2011-02-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ernel could go onto the flash drive too, however I couldn't get it to work :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenb

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
so loaded by something else - heavy reads? > > ? Yes, however CPU loading also seems to affect it. Unfortunately I don't have a useful measurement to show the problem - ie I don't have a metric which correlates with the hardware FIFO filling up. This makes the testing rather ann

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
mething like 'diskinfo -vt /dev/ad14'? OK, I wrote the data to /dev/null from USB and ran diskutil in a loop and it doesn't drop out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ombs out straight away. If I start it streaming and then start md5 it stays running... (even if it's rtprio'd) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to c

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/02/2011, at 12:43, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 05/02/2011, at 11:09, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> It doesn't allocate memory once it's going, everything is preallocated >>> before the data transfer starts. >>> >>> I'll have a go with

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I'll be looking at it on Monday, I will let you know :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GP

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sn't allocate memory once it's going, everything is preallocated before the data transfer starts. I'll have a go with mlock() and see what happens. Thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thi

Scheduler question

2011-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
This is running on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE, Core 2 Duo with ICH9 chipset. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GP

Re: changing label text in boot0

2011-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd > "F2" (slice 2) is "FreeBSD-CURRENT" It isn't possible. The text is printed based on the partition ID (which is the same for both) and there is no room in there for any extra logic. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: FreeBSD development on Mac OS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or if there is some other thing that needs tweaking first. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Winbond Watchdog

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I >> imagine you check the PCI id etc. first? > > It's not a PCI device unfortunately (at least, not the one I have > encountered on my Supermicro board). They're LPC ISA devices, I don't know if they appear in any PNP or ACPI tables though. -- Daniel O'Co

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
oesn't seem to be any in the read call back routine to handle break, hence the TTY layer will not see them. The Linux driver does (obviously :) support it and it doesn't look too tricky so you could probably fix it up. It would be nice if the man page mentioned the lack of break suppo

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the default serial driver changed from sio to uart. You can recompile your kernel and get sio back and see if that has an effect. Actually I see you used cuaU0 - that is a USB serial dongle so the driver change would have no effect. That said the stack was rewritten between 7 & 8 too

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
es sounds like it's ignoring your request :( However you won't get a SIGINT unless the serial port is the controlling terminal of your process (which it won't be if you just open()'d it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.co

Re: mallinfo equivalent on FreeBSD

2010-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
27;s address space) > in a light weight fashion so that I can make some decision based on it. Can't you use getrusage to find that out? As for system wide stats, I think you could look at sysctl, specifically the vm tree. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesi

Re: Missing files device_if.h and bus_if.h

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e_t _child, int _index, uintptr_t *_result) { kobjop_t _m; KOBJOPLOOKUP(((kobj_t)_dev)->ops,bus_read_ivar); return ((bus_read_ivar_t *) _m)(_dev, _child, _index, _result); } -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gene

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> perform multiple mmap calls? If I go the multiple mmap route, how do I match > a mmap call to a particular BAR? Do I use the size of the allocation? Yes, I think you just key off the requested address in the mmap() call. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gen

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-SP605-G.htm > perfect for playing with hardware for a frame buffer device or graphics > device. It comes with a full license for the synthesis and PCIe IP for the > device on that board which is a great deal. Ahh, it does look like a fun toy :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and netw

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
_t sc_st; /* bus space tag */ bus_space_handle_t sc_sh; /* bus space handle */ PS what board are you using? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so ma

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> Is the note about adding hint.apic.0.clock=0 mentioned on > http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption needed to leave C1 at > all on SMP systems? Dunno sorry.. The only SMP system I have running a recent FreeBSD only supports C1 :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and netw

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have more than just a power savings > benefit now. What does "sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest" say? And "sysctl dev.cpu.$N.cx_supported" ? ISTR FreeBSD defaults to a very conservative setting here so you may have to set it manually. -- Daniel O'Connor softwar

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
killall to match Linux & *BSD behaviour? Although seriously, why not? killall just killing everything is a fairly dangerous command with almost no use in the real world. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thin

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is or isn't doing in her configuration. :) Yeah I understand that but if you can avoid the huge problem with a deft rearrangement that may help your production environment and give you more time for a real solution :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Soft

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ould fork when you tell it to rotate, seems like a design defect. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprin

Re: (Ab)using rcng's features to keep rc.d-style services running should they fail.

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; provided it does not happen by default. > > +1 > > I think this feature should be user-controllable (or, the 'make > install' should be 'restart'ing the rc.d script at very least). It won't actually start anything you haven't enabled in rc.conf though si

Re: Distributed SSH attack

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
possible?) for someone to cause you to block a legit IP. If you can, changing the port sshd runs on is by far the simplest work around. Galling as it is to have to change stuff to work around malicious assholes.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis So

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this > paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more > information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact > Postmaster . For more informat

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> understandable) I use the attached script (on FreeBSD :) to prep a USB stick for booting. I imagine you could munge it into your setup without too much trouble. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

Re: Parallel port headers

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
_RDWR)) == -1) { printf("Can't open /dev/ppi0\n"); exit(1); } exit(0); } Those includes are present on my 7.2 box (upgraded with the last week) and my (oldish) -current box. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engine

Re: DTrace probes & klds

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Daniel O'Connor (from Thu, 20 Aug > 2009 > > 17:13:07 +0930): > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> Quoting Daniel O'Connor (from Wed, 19 Aug > >> 2009 > >>

Re: DTrace probes & klds

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Daniel O'Connor (from Wed, 19 Aug > 2009 > > 23:31:33 +0930): > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="utf-8" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Content-Disposition:

DTrace probes & klds

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Is it possible? the handbook implies not and I can't get it to work, but i could be doing it wrong.. I get fbt traces listed for KLDs (I get new entries for each load of the KLD which seems like a potential problem) but I can't specify an SDT_PROBE and have it work. -- Danie

Re: PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Unfortunately it seems that _something_ blocks interrupts for >4 > milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding > what it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions? (apart from get a new > DAQ card, I know this one

Re: PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems that _something_ blocks interrupts for >4 > > milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding > > what it is.. Doe

PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ts for >4 milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding what it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions? (apart from get a new DAQ card, I know this one already :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.a

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
them. It should be only used when windoze has to be run from > the same disk There are plenty of BIOSen which will puke on a dangerously dedicated disk. Next time he should partition, label & newfs the disk, then copy it over with dump | store. Unless the disk is chock full it wi

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
would DTRT. You could also try running fdisk -BI on your new disk to reinit the MBR, then running boot0cfg on it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Loader reading FAT

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:50:38PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't get the loader to read a FAT partition which > > surprises me because I think it should be able to.. I believe that > > libstan

Loader reading FAT

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Any ideas? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this > paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more > information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact > Postmaster . For more informat

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n.com/mimedefang/enduser.php3 An attachment named makeusb.sh was removed from this document as it constituted a security hazard. If you require this document, please contact the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it. On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I've been meaning to trial it out actually. It sure would be > > interesting to boot a kernel/mfs off of a DOS bootable FAT USB. > > I think you can do it if you makefs /boot and feed it to syslinux > using memdisk (I

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
gh so I could just get Syslinux to load the loader then it would do the rest. Although heck how hard can read only FAT support be to write? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there ar

Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
x but it doesn't like loading /boot/loader as a linux kernel and I'm not sure which format to try. I think I can get it to work using the memdisk syslinux thing but that seems like a kludge.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gs

Re: improve my USB knowledge

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd I want to know if there is others (BSD > related) articles or documents I can/must read. FYI, I work with the > new USB stack in 8-CURRENT. libusb is moderately horrible but you can do stuff with it, I wrote a driver for a USB TMC device in Python in an iterative fashion with the pyusb

Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dd, if you have a program using 1Gb (RAM + swap) and you want to start another (in any way) then that is going to be impossible. If you had a 750Mb process that forked and the child only modified 250Mb you'd be all right because the other pages would be copies. -- Daniel O'Connor software a

Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e install key though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
span across 2 1280x1024 screens :( > (The max viewport width was 2048 pixels..) > > 2d acceleration may be a must for that kind of resolution.. If you have a fast CPU & decent pipe to video memory it isn't necessary, but very nice. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: AVR-GCC compiler options

2009-03-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
=foo.lst to gcc and it will make a .lst which will do what I think you want.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: Debugging init process.

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
pecialcase PID 1 so maybe that won't work either.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 22:37:51 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/02/2009 14:00 Daniel O'Connor said the following: > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:45:19 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 17/02/2009 12:25 Nick Hibma said the following: > >>> You are aware of nextboo

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t; > Thanks a lot, these are very useful. > But I am still thinking about an interactive menu where I could e.g. > press '9' to go to "Utilities" and then could select memtest86 or > memtest2009 or cputest :-) That would be very handy IMO. What file do you use to

Re: tcpdump filter for out/in traffic

2009-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d not watch other interfaces this way. I think it's more a question for the tcpdump maintainers. Also, in & out don't necessarily mean traffic from your MAC address or the inverse. eg if you are running a bridge then in & out will mean something different. -- Daniel O

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
actually creating a custom sysinstall but I > guess that's another way we could approach this. I have some research to > do... You wouldn't have to do so - you could just run a shell script from sysinstall and do what you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engine

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hat would allow you to do some basic stuff like this. While the sysinstall code is a bit fugly it's not that difficult to hack on (speaking from limited experience :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing ab

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Daniel O'Connor wrote: > : > On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: > : > > > t

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
- it merrily tries to link FreeBSD libraries to Linux binaries with predictable results.. One trick I use for that is to put a symlink in /compat/linux in the place the problematic FreeBSD library is.. That said it would be really nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :) -- Daniel O'Con

Re: libusb for linux-emulation

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d by ken :( (It would be handy for Xilinx Webpack FPGA programming tools) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fin

Re: lock test from sh script

2008-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
es in length) lockf -s -t 0 /path/to/file /bin/echo -n if [ $? -eq 75 ]; then echo file is locked exit fi -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: kvm on amd64 - >6G?

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > will now get you this: > > vm.kvm_free: 547729960960 > vm.kvm_size: 549755809792 > > on HEAD. :-) Holy fat cache Batman! Any chance it could be made a tunable? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ch less hassle writing a > > GEOM class and using that. > > This sounds good. I will try using GEOM first. But if I could achieve > interception, as I described earlier, I will go for that rather than > redirection. I think using GEOM is the "Right Way" in FreeBSD for

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hts on both the issues? I think you'd have a lower overhead and much less hassle writing a GEOM class and using that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
about. After that you can use any device the kernel knows about. As for the virtual device aspect - could you use a geom class to do you want? It's hard to say without an overview of what you actually want to achieve :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: libz.so no found

2008-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
header to the message ID of the email you pulled out of your saved folder. Mail clients use this header to track what thread a message is in (even if someone changed the subject). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

Re: USB Install Method

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to create it.. http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 (I haven't actually tried this but it looks OK - I have done it with FreesBIE though) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The

Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the master data stored in the same files > as always, it doesn't really matter if the BDB is occasionally > corrupted, as long as it can be rebuilt fairly quickly. So long as you can tell it is corrupted.. It's also a drag from a user POV when the tool crashes because the DB is hos

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