axe CPU_UPGRADE_HW_CACHE from i386 specific code

It looks like CPU_UPGRADE_HW_CACHE is only used in PC98, so it can be removed from all I386 specific code. Any objections to the following patch? Mark Index: conf/options.i386 === RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/conf/options.i386,v retr

Re: Simulate device-file in userland?

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Jan Branbergen wrote: Content-Description: body > i was wondering if it is possible to simulate a device-file ( for example a serial > port or videograbbing device ) in userland? You may want to look at ng_device. Be prepared for rough edges though ;) M

Re: obtaining a kernel crash dump

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:34:42PM +0300, Nick Strebkov wrote: > I can't obtain a crash dump. Can you, on a clean -current, break into DDB and force a panic by simply typing "panic" ? Please report whether the kernel dumps core in this case. Some systems have problems with ATA that prevents them

diff included in commit mail

Hi, I know it was discussed once somewhere, but I can't find the thread in question. What I would like to be able to do is see the actual commit included in the mail. I know it can't be done at the moment the message arrives, as that is before it arrives in my cvs tree. On my machine I have the

DEVICE_IDENTIFY(9)

The above manpage documents the return values, but it is a void function. Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Power Patches

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 06:47:13PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > I get a panic on my T23 due to the ATA driver not being detected so no > rootvp. Same here on a Dell Latitude C640. Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

early write to pci conf register

What is the earliest point in the boot process that I can write to a pci conf registers of a pci device? I would like to disable some sub devices before they get probed. Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: nswap

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:33:01AM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, that is also what I meant. We now have a swapoff() system call that > > does all the work itself. > > > > My idea was to split that up

Re: nswap

*/ } /* turn off all swap devices */ int swapoff_all() { int index; struct swdevt *sp; for (sp = swdevt, index = 0; index < nswdev; index++, sp++) swapoff_one(sp); } So the swapoff() system call would call swapoff_one() and my code in kern/kern_swsuspend.c would call swapo

Re: nswap

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:27:29PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > in : > > extern int nswap; /* size of swap space */ > > > > in : > > static int nswap; /* first block after the interleaved devs */

nswap

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closing all fd's in ng_device before node removal

In a kernel driver, is is possible to get the list of open fd's on a "dev_t" entry? I can probably do it using a double administration by storing all accesses to open() and close() but I would rather not. Any input appreciated! Mark -- Mark Santcroos

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

an do such a thing in GEOM in the future? Is this something you will be doing yourself Poul, or is it just that you are saying that it is possible? If not, I really would like to help to get vmware back, but I don't know anything more about GEOM than "option\t\tGEOM". Mark -- Mark

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

mind was less quick and more dirty than I expected ;-) What was the reason for the removal of block devices anyway? It would be nice if you would tell me some background about that.. :) Mark -- Mark SantcroosRIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mar

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

k and in that case it will enlarge the read() to the next sector boundary. I have it working in the kernel but I have problems returning the right read buffer to userland. Mark -- Mark SantcroosRIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/New Projects Group

Re: ACPI programming under FreeBSD?

t; kind of work? > > Thanks. > -- > Craig Rodrigues > http://www.gis.net/~craigr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Mark Santcroos

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

thing I have to find out is the check to see whether it is a read on a raw device or not. I strongly prefer to do the check in linux_read and not in the disk layer code. (It would be easier, but not cleaner) Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http:

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

is. It should be possible > to do the equivalent of a vn device that accepts misalligned > accesses and reblocks them, but I'll leave that to those whose > job it is to finish. Hi Julian, That was the background info I was looking for. I might try to do the remapping my

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

[freebsd-emulation@ bcc'ed] On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:47:48PM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > A fact is that vmware did work up until a few months. I didn't do a binary > search yet. That is last resort... Anyone running a -current of several months old and using vmware2? If so

Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

months? By looking at the code history it seems so indeed. Do you have an idea what might have 'covered' this though? A fact is that vmware did work up until a few months. I didn't do a binary search yet. That is last resort... Mark -- Mark Santcroos

vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary

c) at syscall+0x2ca Xint0x80_syscall() at Xint0x80_syscall+0x1d -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD?

n mine. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:21:54AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Mark Santcroos wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:41:13PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > > Sure, but I dont have the problem :) I can buildworld for days on my > > > (heavily overclocked btw) Ath

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:55:42PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > Can you revert back to the system compiler and also compile your kernel > > with this options and do some buildworlds again? > > I already use the system compiler... That's why the message was addres

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

> > Sure, but I dont have the problem :) I can buildworld for days on my > (heavily overclocked btw) Athlon with no problems at all... > > -S?ren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 04:31:02AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > If it's a 3-for-3 workaround, then I probably need to take the > discussion offline with Peter Wemm, and come up with a permanent > fix. There was something with non-disclosure, am I right? --

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

ight report, not yelling halleluja yet ;-) It's doing the 2nd buildworld now. Do you also want me to try to split up the disabling of the two options? Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Gro

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:17:03AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Mark Santcroos wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:33:57AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > options DISABLE_PSE > > > options DISABLE_PG_G > > > > Coming up next in this theate

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:33:57AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > options DISABLE_PSE > options DISABLE_PG_G Coming up next in this theater :-) btw, how does the report that using the other compiler fixed everything for KT fit in? -- Mark Santcroos

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:38:25AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Alternatively, rather than those options, try losing 512M of > the RAM... I note they are all 1G boxes. No, mine is 256MB. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.ne

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

Hi Martin, As you know this problem for longer, did you already try to make the problem a bit more reproducable / narrowed down? If not, we really should try to, that will be the first step in fixing it. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

of course > maybe wrong). After dropping "-g" from kernel compiling I hadn't a problem > again on -stable. (At the moment I do not have -current on a P-IV, the > motherboard is a Fujitsu-Siemens) I will try that asap. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE

Re: Memory corruption in CURRENT

;I'): > > case HASH('`', 'O'): > > case HASH('`', 'U'): > > > > The file is correct after a reboot, so the corruption was limited to the > > copy cached in RAM. > > Thats memory corruption. I'm also not able a

Re: projects?

might have a reverse situation, so some hooks to both these layers would come in handy, that was my point. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: projects?

duplicate the whole stack in the netgraph node or would it be relatively easy to hook it up to the existing ip and tcp code? Just wondering. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubs

Re: kernel booting diff between boot2 and loader

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:26:28AM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: > I wonder what is different in booting the kernel from loader(8) and from > boot2. > > In vmware2 I am not able to boot the kernel from boot2, it hangs after > loading the kernelfile. Using loader it goes fine. &g

kernel booting diff between boot2 and loader

, until I wanted to use etherboot, where I ofcourse can't use loader. Any help or insight into this will be gladly accepted :-) Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Recommend a laptop for FreeBSD

> driver support to take advantage of the 3D hardware acceleration. I'm > leaning toward the Dell Dimension line of laptops, if you can recommend > a better --name brand-- machine please let me know as well. This is a faq on freebsd-mobile. Read the archives

Re: kernel panic: vm_object_reference

"foolproof" programming > > but I should return something like busy FS > > How would that be different from not forcing it ? That (or something similar) should be returned to the process accessing the unmounted fs, not the umount itself. Mark -- Mark Santcroos

Re: please remove blank line

es. style(9): /* Insert an empty line if the function has no local variables. */ Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: RS232/V24 Driver

f not, are there ways to analyze the protocol by a > > monitor or whatever technique appropriate? > > You might take a look at ports/comms/snooper Better try: http://www.gphoto.org/ because afaik this model is already supported :-) -- Mark Santcroos R

Re: a daemon C skeleton

> > . > > > > thanks in advance, > > Kirill Magdalinin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

[PATCH] nmdm fixes

ease review the patch at: http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/files/nmdm.diff I would appreciate any feedback ranging from: 'hey, you should do it like this!' to 'committed!'. I only used/tested this on -CURRENT btw. Thanks to Julian for writing the driver initially. Mark -- Mark San

Re: debugging question

Ah great. Thanks alot! Mark On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:11:07AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Mark Santcroos wrote: > > > > Thats what I already said in my email :) > > > > I was hoping that there is some way to dump the codepath of the kernel. > > > &

Re: debugging question

report on -current in the coming days. On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 03:38:45PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > when the system is looping, hit > to drop into the debugger. > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Andrew R. Reiter wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Mark Santcroos wrote: > >

debugging question

hope that there is another way then to place printf's everywhere. Thanks Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

debugging vmware3 linux binary

, the vmware program itself is only shipped as a Linux binary. Did the vmware2 binary ran flawlessly on FreeBSD, the vmware3 one does not. My question now: how the hell can I track this down? (ktrace doesn't seem to provide any valuable input, but maybe I overlook something) Thanks Mark

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

; > Well, that is just too bad, because IS_LOCKING_VFS is wrong then. That's what the line of comment above it said ;) /* * [dfr] Kludge until I get around to fixing all the vfs locking. */ Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ri

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

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Re: import NetBSD rc system

t; In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Santcroos writes: > : What is the difference between the present rc scheme and the NetBSD one? > > The NetBSD rc scheme, in a nutshell, put each thing into its own file > and does order dependencies automatically. Ours is one big monolithic

Re: import NetBSD rc system

Do YOU Yahoo!? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM To Unsu

Re: Biometric security?

ected screensaver rather than typing in my password all the time... Hi, Compaq has some cheap devices for workstations at around $100. The API you can find at www.bioapi.org. Mark ps. if you get me a device, I might be interested in writing a driver ;) -- Mark Santcroos

Re: [IrDA] adding new network stack

n module, to be able to develop outside the tree. (I'm fairly new to FreeBSD/CVS so I do not know an easy way to work on a cvstree and keep it up to date(when your changes don't get uploaded) at the same time) I don't know what is the normal behaviour, but maybe it's possib

Re: adding an address family

ne thing I will look at tonight is an old Tulip laptop I have laying around somewhere. It has an infrared port, but I have no idea what chipset. My driver is strongly based on the OBOE driver from Linux, so porting the other drivers should not be a big problem probably. (This one costed me a bit more

Re: adding an address family

more. The reason I ask it is this: Is it wise to implement my protocol based on Netgraph (so I can do it as a kernel module), or should I just build it into the kernel? I know; A lot of questions, but I sure need the help :-) (And wouldn't it be cool if we would have IrDA support?) Mark -- Mark

Re: adding an address family

h code. Is this likely going to replace all the implementations of the current supported network protocols? In other words, is netgraph the right way to go for me, or should I rather focus on the more static part and drop the idea of implementing it as a kernel module? Mark -- Mark Santcroos

adding an address family

is the code not ready for that? Thanks Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre PGP KeyID: 1024/0x3DCBEB8D PGP Fingerprint: BB1E D037 F29D 4B40 0B26 F152 795F FCAB 3DCB EB8D To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

new kld style

quot; style. Or explain me if I'm missing something :-) [or even tell me that I should not worry about this] Regards, Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre PGP KeyID: 1024/0x3DCBEB8D PGP Fingerprint: BB1E D037 F29D 4B40 0B26 F152 795F FCAB 3DCB EB8D