Re: libthread 1:1 threads

2005-04-23 Thread David Leimbach
On 4/22/05, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On 2005-4-22 3:02 PM -0700 David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > According to the man page, and plan 9 where rfork originated you can > > use it to modify an extant process. In fact you have to s

Re: libthread 1:1 threads

2005-04-22 Thread David Leimbach
On 4/22/05, Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David Leimbach wrote: > > >Perhaps David Xu could clue me in a bit more :) > > > >I just got around to reading the status report for FreeBSD and the 1:1 > >threading caught my eye. > >

libthread 1:1 threads

2005-04-22 Thread David Leimbach
Perhaps David Xu could clue me in a bit more :) I just got around to reading the status report for FreeBSD and the 1:1 threading caught my eye. I'm not terribly familiar with FreeBSD's KSE based threading but rather than adding a new system call [which may be ok... though I've worked on systems w

Re: KLD module with C++ iostreams ?

2005-04-20 Thread David Leimbach
Interesting question. People usually have to implement the C++ runtime to be usable from within the kernel. Things like exceptions and "stdout" may not be defined in kernel space :) I'm not terribly familiar with how it works on FreeBSD but I know it took a special effort to get C++ support into

Re: organization

2005-03-30 Thread David Leimbach
> Yes, procfs rules! Procfs is from linux? I thought it was from Plan 9... along with rfork :). > > -SB > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: organization

2005-03-30 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:30:47 -0800, mohamed aslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i cann't reply to all of ur comments > but , that is what makes u break off , as DragonFly split of u So you're going to fork FreeBSD because we didn't think your comments were constructive and that you don't like the o

Re: Fwd: 5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken

2005-03-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:11:07 +1000, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-Mar-28 23:23:19 -0800, David Leimbach wrote: > >meant to send this to the list too... sorry > >> Are you implying DragonFly uses FPU/SIMD? For that matter does any kernel? > >

Fwd: 5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken

2005-03-28 Thread David Leimbach
meant to send this to the list too... sorry > Are you implying DragonFly uses FPU/SIMD? For that matter does any kernel? I believe it does use SIMD for some of it's fast memcopy stuff for it's messaging system actually. I remember Matt saying he was working on it. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/m

Re: organization

2005-03-28 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:49:25 +0200 (CEST), Webmaster Shizukana.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The user " mohamed aslan" wrote this strange object...: > > hi guys > > it's my first post here, BTW i was a linux hacker and linux kernel > > mailing list member for 3 years. > > > > and i've a comment

Re: Re[4]: FreeBSD on Xserve ?

2004-09-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Sep 12, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Igor Shmukler wrote: Why do you think that 970 does not have BAT registers? There are 16 special purpose registers specifically to implement Block Address Translation. Because Peter already told us that they have no BAT registers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/

Re: Re[2]: FreeBSD on Xserve ?

2004-09-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Sep 12, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Igor Shmukler wrote: Why do you think that 970 does not have BAT registers? There are 16 special purpose registers specifically to implement Block Address Translation. Because Peter already told us that they have no BAT registers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/fr

Someone knowledgeable with ATAPI CD stuff...

2001-07-28 Thread David Leimbach
I am not subscribed to this list so I would appreciate it if you could CC me in your responses. I am trying to write some user code that will enable me to select one of the four slots on my ATAPI cd changer. I have noticed there is no explicit IOCTL for this function but that the the acd_s