Re: FreeBSD on DVD

2006-11-14 Thread John Birrell
. I can't imagine the current mirrors wanting to host a sun4v DVD of 4 GB for the limited number of users. i386 may be a different story. -- John Birrell ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 586Core

2004-09-14 Thread John Birrell
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:39:40AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: Their serial BIOS is a pain to use, but for most applications it doesn't matter at all... What problems do you have with it? It seems to work fine for me once I build FreeBSD to it's fixed baud rate. -- John Birrell

Re: 586Core

2004-09-14 Thread John Birrell
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:20:56AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Birrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:39:40AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : Their serial BIOS is a pain to use, but for most applications it : doesn't

Re: 586Core

2004-09-13 Thread John Birrell
is detected, so I guess it will work. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smallest piece of hardware that runs *BSD?

2003-10-10 Thread John Birrell
a lot bigger than a 'bump in a cable', but it runs FreeBSD. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimalist FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-26 Thread John Birrell
/misc/termcap.db -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-14 Thread John Birrell
something. 8-) -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-14 Thread John Birrell
is intended as a chip for embedded systems. I don't want/need any bells and whistles when I've only got 2 executables in the entire operating system (the kernel and init). I'll go the simple way. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-08 Thread John Birrell
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:44:08AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Birrell writes : I'm not convinced that any hacking is required other than passing the device_t parent to nexus_pcib_is_host_bridge (in STABLE) as Bernd says. I traced the boot on my system

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-07 Thread John Birrell
. -- John Birrell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get a device_t

2003-08-06 Thread John Birrell
to PCI bridge is the only reliable way to go. My local hack is to make my flash drivers require the elan_mmcr option and then they can just go use the elan_mmcr global variable. I just need the elan device to be initialised earlier. -- John Birrell

Re: Crossing building alpha world fails

1999-09-03 Thread John Birrell
=alpha \ make buildworld Is this the correct command to use for building the cross? The source code tree is from freebsd-current, taken as of today. The build failed with yesterdays -current as well. You can't build for a 64-bit binutils target on a 32-bit host. -- John Birrell - j

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-09-01 Thread John Birrell
think there have been problems reported with 2.2.X to -current upgrades. If you're willing to try it, send me private mail (to avoid using too much bandwidth) with the errors when it barfs. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread John Birrell
' as a temporary measure to get the thing to work? The solution is to fix `make'. I could commit the fix, but I'm not in a position to build -stable just now. I'm not supposed to commit without testing. The fix looks straight forward though, so "it should just work". 8-) -- John Birrell - [EMAIL

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread John Birrell
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:27:00AM -0700, Doug wrote: John Birrell wrote: The solution is to fix `make'. I could commit the fix, but I'm not in a position to build -stable just now. I'm not supposed to commit without testing. The fix looks straight forward though, so "it should just

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread John Birrell
' as a temporary measure to get the thing to work? The solution is to fix `make'. I could commit the fix, but I'm not in a position to build -stable just now. I'm not supposed to commit without testing. The fix looks straight forward though, so it should just work. 8-) -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-31 Thread John Birrell
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:27:00AM -0700, Doug wrote: John Birrell wrote: The solution is to fix `make'. I could commit the fix, but I'm not in a position to build -stable just now. I'm not supposed to commit without testing. The fix looks straight forward though, so it should just work

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-30 Thread John Birrell
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Doug wrote: I've seen quite a few reports of this lately, and while this fixes it, it shouldn't be necessary, should it? Has something changed in the 'make upgrade' target recently? `make' has changed. -- John Birrell - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make aout-to-elf-build Failing

1999-08-30 Thread John Birrell
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 09:13:58AM -0700, Doug wrote: I've seen quite a few reports of this lately, and while this fixes it, it shouldn't be necessary, should it? Has something changed in the 'make upgrade' target recently? `make' has changed. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au

FreeBSD on VMEbus

1999-08-10 Thread John Birrell
save me from a fate worse than death. I got this contact on the basis that it _wasn't_ a Microsoft development, so either I need to jump off the nearest tall building, walk away, or find an alternative... -- John Birrell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic

FreeBSD on VMEbus

1999-08-10 Thread John Birrell
save me from a fate worse than death. I got this contact on the basis that it _wasn't_ a Microsoft development, so either I need to jump off the nearest tall building, walk away, or find an alternative... -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic

Re: FreeBSD locations (was: Pictures from USENIX)

1999-07-05 Thread John Birrell
Greg Lehey wrote: John Birrell's further South (Melbourne, for a first approximation): -37.7144.9jb Close enough. Danny O'Callaghan (danny) and Peter Hawkins (thpish) are in Melbourne too. -- John Birrell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cimlogic.com.au

Re: FreeBSD locations (was: Pictures from USENIX)

1999-07-05 Thread John Birrell
Greg Lehey wrote: John Birrell's further South (Melbourne, for a first approximation): -37.7144.9jb Close enough. Danny O'Callaghan (danny) and Peter Hawkins (thpish) are in Melbourne too. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-04 Thread John Birrell
Greg Lehey wrote: It also clears up the misconception that being a member of -core requires a beard. A constant 5 o'clock shadow, maybe, but not a beard. And what's wrong with a beard? Nothing that a sharp knife or some hedge clippers couldn't fix. -- John Birrell - j

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-14 Thread John Birrell
was discussed/decided? -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Segfault in longjmp() ?

1999-06-08 Thread John Birrell
Dan Moschuk wrote: The machine is a SMP 3.0-RELEASE box. A heavily threaded program is segfaulting in the longjmp() function. Any ideas what would cause this? A bug in the thread exit code. This was fixed at the 13th hour during the release of 3.2. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au

Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12)

1999-06-05 Thread John Birrell
Jason Thorpe wrote: I dunno, John. Matt's right on the ball here, from my experience. Vague non-answers seem to be your specialty. That appears to be a comment designed to create a flame war. It certainly is not helpful to FreeBSD. Please don't abuse our lists. -- John Birrell - j

Re: Kernel config script

1999-05-30 Thread John Birrell
to do so. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: error 6: panic : cannot mount root(2) with PicoBSD current

1999-05-20 Thread John Birrell
) break; } + #endif if (err) { /* * XXX should ask the user for the name in some cases. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia

Re: a.out lib placment (was: 3.2-RELEASE and netscape problem.)

1999-05-18 Thread John Birrell
are abusing compat22 by adding the aout (legacy) stuff. Why not just build a legacy library bundle and install it where it belongs. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

Re: a.out lib placment (was: 3.2-RELEASE and netscape problem.)

1999-05-18 Thread John Birrell
seen the problem. I'm responding to things people have _said_. ] -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: threads and Xlibs?

1999-05-16 Thread John Birrell
(as I do) and do all Xlib calls in the initial thread, with child threads to do anything else that can block. In general, having more than one thread per thing that can block is a bad idea. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO

Re: threads and Xlibs?

1999-05-16 Thread John Birrell
young. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au; j...@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-12 Thread John Birrell
Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: How about Klingon? I doubt anyone would question how authentic your accent is ;-) how about gelfi'll bring a handkerchief so that everyone stays dry. ;P Will people please stop posting this stuff to -hackers. -- John Birrell - j

Re: gas pseudo-ops

1999-01-16 Thread John Birrell
the needed definitions. gensetdefs also needs to act according to the machine and endian type it sees in the elf header, not the ones it was compiled for. Then it can be used as a cross-tool. -- John Birrell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ [EMAIL