Re: file version and libmagic

2012-07-03 Thread b. f.
>Why do FreeBSD-9 use still file-5.3 ? whereas file-5.09 was ready to use with >updated >magic databases (was ready FreeBSD9 release date). Do you know why >FreeBSD insist >to use old magic databases ? FreeBSD doesn't "insist" on the use of old versions of file -- it is just that no committer

Re: Graphical Terminal Environment

2012-03-06 Thread b. f.
Brandon Falk wrote: > I've been thinking for a while about possibly making an extremely > lightweight environment that supports full monitor resolution, custom > fonts, and terminals... that's about it. You may also want to look at our system libvgl ( vgl(3) ), ports/devel/directfb ( http://dire

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-18 Thread b. f.
Most of these questions are more suitable for the freebsd-stable or freebsd-questions mailing lists, rather than freebsd-hackers. Alex Goncharov wrote: > What I see in 9 now is very confusing for me; e.g.: > > * Why 'snd_hda.ko' even exists, if the whole 'snd_hda' implementation lives in > 'kern

man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also

2011-09-11 Thread b. f.
> > I suggest we should add a See Also section to man bzip2, > > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE & current man bzip2 > .../-current/src/contrib/bzip2/bzip2.1 > > adding URLs > http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -> > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ > > as

Re: All CPUs always running at profhz

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
> I have systems running 7.4 and 8.2. The newer ones (in terms of age of > hardware) are always running at profhz, i.e., when executing a "systat > -vm 1" I see that all cores always get profhz interrupts per second. > > An older machine running 7.4 is running at hz (which for this machine I > set

Re: FreeBSD ABI?

2011-02-21 Thread b. f.
>I filed gcc PR asking gcc to revert their behavior back to prescribed by >documentation: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47842 Heh, good luck!: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38496 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: FreeBSD ABI?

2011-02-21 Thread b. f.
> > Where is it documented? > > Are there differences with the linux ABI? > > > > Particularly I am interested in stack alignment requirement. For example > > i386 Solaris, Linux and MacOS have 16 bit stack alignment for procedure > > calls. This is reflected in LLVM sources: > > > > if (isTarget

Re: [PATCH] Bug with powerof2 macro in sys/param.h

2010-10-15 Thread b. f.
>We aren't dealing with mathematicians, but programmers. I am attempting to reconcile this with Colin's rationale in terms of congruence classes over rings Z/nZ. ;) b. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: How to read cmos clock - what is gettimeofday reading?

2010-08-19 Thread b. f.
>To further confuse matters there appears to be a common misconception on the >web >that the cmos time is automatically synced to system time on FreeBSD. This is >incorrect: see msg03414 on freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org. The situation has changed in 8-STABLE and 9-CURRENT since the above messag

Re: Any way to fix '/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.11 required by ... not found'?

2010-08-12 Thread b. f.
>I'm trying to update graphics/lightspark-devel port to the latest >version, and it's firefox plugin now doesn't load. The supposed reason >for that is that the plugin is build with gcc 4.4+ (as it uses c++0x >features), and firefox is built with our default gcc 4.2, thus libstdc++ >versions doesn'

Re: Add -lssp_nonshared to GCC's LIB_SPEC unconditionally

2010-08-05 Thread b. f.
On Tue Aug 3 15:22:00 UTC 2010, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: ... >I therefore propose the following change to always link in >libssp_nonshared.a. I think this change is harmless when the symbol is >not needed in one of the objects linked together since the linker won't >pull in the library member "ssp-lo

Re: [PATCH] Fix typos in bsd.port.mk and minor logic improvements

2010-07-13 Thread b. f.
>So I'm taking it that the only change of benefit is the attached patch. While you are there, you might also: line 150: s/supercede/supersede/ line 764: s/dependancies/dependencies/ line 2982: s/everthing/everything/ line 6142: s/servicable/serviceable/ b. ___

Re: kernel usage of fxsave/fxrstor

2010-05-20 Thread b. f.
On 5/20/10, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:41:22PM -0400, b. f. wrote: >> I'm wondering why we equate cpu_fxsr and hw_instruction_sse in our >> kernel, when several families of Intel and AMD processors have >> fxsave/fxrstor, but not sse, and v

kernel usage of fxsave/fxrstor

2010-05-20 Thread b. f.
I'm wondering why we equate cpu_fxsr and hw_instruction_sse in our kernel, when several families of Intel and AMD processors have fxsave/fxrstor, but not sse, and various documents from both companies suggest that fxsave/fxrstor is faster than fsave/fnsave/frstor, even when only saving the fpu/mmx

Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-22 Thread b. f.
Doug Barton wrote: >On 4/20/2010 7:11 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it possible to >> rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade installed) > >Portmaster certainly can't do this, it uses the information from >/var/db/pkg. I'm not sure

Re: regenerating /var/db/pkg

2010-04-22 Thread b. f.
>Am 22.04.2010 14:49, schrieb Diane Bruce: >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:24PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>> I acciddentally rm'ed my /var/db/pkg and want to know is it possible to >>> rgenerate it (I have portmaster and portupgrade installed) >> >> >> You would have to write a script which

Re: GEOM_ULZMA

2010-02-20 Thread b. f.
>> The code organization depends on what you want to do with it and how you >> want to update the code in the future, if your lzma library is third party. > >LZMA made by Igor Pavlov, and since 4.62 it licensed under Public Domain. >So we can use it, if we need. > >> >> If you never intend to updat