Re: Mixing amd64 kernel with i386 world

2013-09-28 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
ctually, before the 64-bit userland existed) and it worked just fine. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 11:00, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, September 04, 2013 10:11:28 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/04/13 08:20, Ryan Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work? -Nathan #define GET_STACK_USAGE(total, used) GET_STACK_USAGE sets the variable passed in total to the total

Re: [RFC][CFT] GEOM direct dispatch and fine-grained CAM locking

2013-09-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
there and I wanted to stay on a safe side. On other archs GEOM works in old queued way. Somebody should port that small macro to other archs. But that is still interesting data point. Thanks. Could you describe what this macro is supposed to do so that we can do the porting work

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-28 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 05/27/13 23:36, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 5/27/13 6:53 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 05/27/13 20:40, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 5/27/13 2:23 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: On 27/05/2013 21:28, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 5/27/13 11:40 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: Yes. Is this a joke? It probably

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
ed up having time to finish. Probably a reasonable thing to do is to start with supporting only a minimal set of features. If anyone felt like actually writing this code, I'm sure it would be appreciated by all and be more productive than email exchanges. -Nathan __

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
get pc-sysinstall running on all of them first in case there's some problem that means it can't be done, in which case we'd need to use a different backend. I'd point out that bsdinstall does have a scripting interface

Re: FreeBSD installers and future direction

2013-05-25 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
all-sh(1) future -- by far the cleanest parts of bsdinstall are in C -- and this is especially true for interacting with geom. That said, since I've lost nearly all of my free time and ability to work on bsdinstall, I won't get in the way of

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-18 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
rity problem is also an action totally disproportionate with the issue that should not be made in a panic. Having more [cryptographic] verifiability in the release process is a good thing; it is not strictly related to the choice of version control s

Re: Build 32 bit binaries on amd64

2012-08-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
y follow Tijl's model since we are on that path. I originally preferred the /usr/include/i386 approach, but have come around to Tjil's approach instead. I just wanted to add that the unified 32/64 header route is where we went on PowerPC (and MIPS?) a

Re: EFI development tools

2012-06-18 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
der unification, which seems to be in progress. Moreover, if you are building standalone binaries (which the EFI stuff probably is) it should just work now, since standalone code doesn't depend on system headers. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.o

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-14 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
Thanks for the information -- I got scared by "SysV init". This actually does look very nice. -Nathan On 06/13/12 13:35, Richard Yao wrote: The OpenRC is sysvinit compatible, but it has few of sysvinit's flaws. It has named runlevels, the presence of an init script does not ca

Re: wired memory - again!

2012-06-13 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
Can you point me at the exact code in arm pmap ? I remember an issue on PPC which Nathan discussed, that sounds somewhat similar (but I still do not understand what exactly happens on ARM). On PowerPC, icache needs to be explicitely flushed if write happen to the executable mapping. See r233949 fo

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-13 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
nf that was easy to configure instead of the nightmare that is System V init. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Regarding cores in FreeBSD 9

2012-04-15 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
2 with cpuset -l 2 or switch an existing process cpuset -l 2 -p 1200. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-uns

Re: Jumpstart on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-02-20 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
w.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=release&apropos=0&sektion=7&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-stable&arch=default&format=html This situation should be corrected for 9.1. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Change of ftp download server's dir layout, from 9

2012-01-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
is SHA256 and base.txz does contain the manpages. The script that generates MANIFEST is at /usr/src/releases/scripts/make-manifest.sh if you want to see what the rest of the fields are. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: gcc 4.2 miscompilation with -O2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer on amd64

2011-12-08 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
frame-frame-pointer on PPC then? It's enabled in default kernel builds. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: how are callouts handled in cpu_idle() ?

2011-10-05 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
you explain why the critical section is there in more detail? It seems like all of our problems arise because of it. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-09-12 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
tells you* you need to create sub-partitions. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/31/11 08:28, Ivan Voras wrote: On 31 August 2011 14:45, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: It does let you set mountpoints, and displays them, and always has, but not for bsdlabel container partitions (MBR type "freebsd"), since they aren't filesystems. Is this what you were tryin

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/31/11 05:19, Ivan Voras wrote: On 31/08/2011 02:40, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 08/30/11 19:07, Ivan Voras wrote: It was a plain install on a RAID volume which appears as ordinary da0 drive. I did do a couple of start-overs so it could be that some state got lost. It definitely did NOT

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-08-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 08/30/11 19:07, Ivan Voras wrote: On 30.8.2011. 16:11, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 08/30/11 07:27, Ivan Voras wrote: Am I doing something wrong or the BETA1 installer cannot be used to manually create the partition scheme? 1) it doesn't accept "freebsd-swap" as partition

Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor

2011-08-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
were using, etc.? The "invalid argument" is a message coming from the kernel, so something must be very wrong in your setup. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To

Re: make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
ail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" On -CURRENT, it places them in /usr/obj/usr/src/release. You can use make install DESTDIR=blah to put them somewhere else. On 8.x and earlier it places them in CHROOT/R. -Nathan ___ freebsd-ha

Re: [PATCH] fake pre-processor macros when building on non-FreeBSD system

2011-07-12 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 07/12/11 17:33, Robert Millan wrote: 2011/7/12 Nathan Whitehorn: On 07/12/11 16:06, Robert Millan wrote: Why would one need to build a cross-compiler in order to compile userland-agnostic code for the same CPU architecture? This would be like requiring a cross-compiler in order to build

Re: [PATCH] fake pre-processor macros when building on non-FreeBSD system

2011-07-12 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
-compiler in order to build things like GRUB or SeaBIOS. For one, it might have a different ABI, which isn't actually that different an issue than the one you find yourself facing. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: sizeof(function pointer)

2011-05-31 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
they are still the same size as a void *. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: sizeof(function pointer)

2011-05-31 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
ARM, PPC, PPC64, and ia64, which I just tested. I think you're safe. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: dialog(1) changed in RELENG_9 (was RE: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD)

2011-04-22 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
was replaced it were that it (a) has a better libdialog API, (b) has a better license (LGPL instead of GPL), (c) is maintained, and (d) supports 8-bit character sets. If there is some specific feature you are interested in (--hline for instance), I'd suggest writing to Thomas Dickey, the m

Re: Include file search path

2011-03-30 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
way to completely reset those with the current options. Since you need to build two compilers anyway (one for the current system, to build the new one, and one to live in the new one, linked against new libraries), I don't see that it's such a nasty hack. -Nathan ___

Re: multi-boot bootstrap?

2011-03-28 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
tive MBR" trick? No, they can only boot from APM (Apple Partition Map) disks, which don't have a concept of active partition. The current boot1 on PPC is hard-coded to boot from the first UFS partition on the disk, which could be changed, certainly, but is almost totally unrelated to

Re: Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc

2011-01-13 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
AGP is derived from PCI, so AGP devices show up on the PCI bus. All the AGP kernel module does is provide hooks to manipulate some advanced features of the bus, mostly for the benefit of drm. -Nathan On 01/12/11 19:24, Super Bisquit wrote: My graphics port is agp and not pci. It

Re: Unable to compile drm.ko on powerpc

2011-01-12 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
powerpc. The AGP kernel module also doesn't provide any useful features unless you are using DRM. You don't need either for graphics on powerpc machines. -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Software interrupts; where to start

2010-11-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
l would be best scenario, so any suggestions leaning towards having the sending program be integrated within the kernel in some way would be even better. I'm not looking for a handout here, just a better understanding of where to start; so any suggestions or referrals to RTFM or source example

Re: txt-sysinstall scrapped

2010-11-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
nstruct a web app inside a bundled web server to write a config file to be interpreted by shell scripts just in order to run gpart, newfs, and tar. But if you get it working, it's better than sysinstall no matter how baroque. -Nathan ___ freebs

Re: fix pnpinfo on arch=amd64

2010-10-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
and ia64 (i.e. Intel products). -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

2010-09-16 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
has been issued. > > It's been a while, but the problem I found when comparing the NetBSD > code was that there didn't appear to be a way to tell from within the > FreeBSD driver whether it was a shutdown or reboot. Register a shutdown event handler? The second argument

Re: PS3 livelock and pmap_remove()

2010-09-07 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/06/10 22:24, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 09/06/10 20:22, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> Now that my SLB allocation issue is solved, with help with Matthew and >> Alan, I have another VM puzzler. >> >> I have a simple program that tries to use all the memory

Re: PS3 livelock and pmap_remove()

2010-09-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/06/10 20:22, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Now that my SLB allocation issue is solved, with help with Matthew and > Alan, I have another VM puzzler. > > I have a simple program that tries to use all the memory on the system, > which isn't very much on the PS3, so I use it

PS3 livelock and pmap_remove()

2010-09-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
10^15 pages to unmap in that range and it was busy taking until the end of time unmapping them all. Here's the trace from KDB: moea64_remove() pmap_remove() vm_daemon() fork_exit() fork_trampoline() end- Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Thank

Re: UMA allocations from a specific physical range

2010-09-05 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/05/10 22:51, m...@freebsd.org wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: > >> PowerPC hypervisors typically provided a restricted range on memory when >> the MMU is disabled, as it is when initially handling exceptions. In >> order to

UMA allocations from a specific physical range

2010-09-05 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
on ("page is not free"). What is the correct way to deallocate these pages? Or is there a different approach I should adopt? -Nathan ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsu

Re: Review/testing request: changing the detection of data_addr/text_addr

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2010 3:29:23 pm Nathan Whitehorn wrote: We currently detect the offical "text" and "data" addresses for ELF files in kern/imgact_elf.c by the heuristic of calling whichever section contains the executable's entry p

Review/testing request: changing the arguments of exec_setregs()

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
SD. I also take the opportunity to convert several of the declarations of exec_setregs() from K&R to ANSI C. This patch is fairly straightforward, but it does touch all architectures. I have tested the patch on amd64, sparc64, and powerpc, with no evident problems.

Review/testing request: changing the detection of data_addr/text_addr

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
any comments, as well as tests on other architectures. The main symptom of getting these values wrong is that sbrk() stops working correctly, so I have put a simple test program for sbrk() at http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/sbrktest.c. -Nathan __

Re: LDAP integration

2007-01-11 Thread Nathan Vidican
ng the good or the bad points of doing this - and it seems to me not something worth arguing the merits of. If you believe in it enough, then do it or at least try it. Lets move on from if we should or shouldn't, and look more to HOW we

nss_ldap-243 & FreeBSD/amd64 ... anyone? (build/errors/info attached)

2005-11-04 Thread Nathan Vidican
Any suggestions/guidance would be greatly appreciated at this point... kinda running out of things to try and can't really audit the entire source code for something I know little about the internals of. Thanx all -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. ht

buffer locking

2005-06-29 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
I'm working in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. In various places in the buffer management code (e.g. ibwrite()) the buffer lock reference count is checked (see below), presumably to make sure the buffer is safely locked before working with it. Is there a reason that it's not neccesary to ensure that the cur

Re: ELF branding / magic numbers

2004-02-10 Thread Nathan Hawkins
x binaries, without needing to run brandelf on them. I've been considering working on a patch for that, but haven't had time. ---Nathan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-17 Thread Nathan Hawkins
eeBSD with no problems. (Local computer store has had used ones very cheap.) I've used the Compaq DL380 with Linux, and would recommend it as quite good and reliable hardware. Looks like the Compaq RAID controller is supported on FreeBSD, but I don't have access to one anymore, so can&#x

Re: freebsd-hackers SMP performance question

2002-03-01 Thread Nathan Kunkee
> > I'm crossposting to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as per suggestion. > > My original post, edited: > > > > ... why any kernels compiled with SMP enabled seem > > > to be slowing the whole system down? Throughput goes down by 40%. > Tasks > > > take twice as long to run, etc, etc... > > > ... it appea

Re: Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question)

2001-07-10 Thread Nathan Vidican
xeon boxes, though they've stopped supporting the legacy mainframes. Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ - Original Message - From: "Wilko Bulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Josh M Osborne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL P

Athlon MP / AMD 760MP Chipset (Athlon SMP question)

2001-07-09 Thread Nathan Vidican
h the new Athlon MP Processors; or has no-one even tried yet? Currently the only O/S I know of which is promoting the usage of such systems is Novell Netware, and I am just curious if FreeBSD will (if it is not currently) be capable of running on such a system? -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
ing machines > rather difficult. I sure hope nobody is advocating doing away with > the monolithic capabilities of /etc/rc.conf! NetBSD has /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf too. -- Nathan Ahlstrom / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / GPG: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail t

documentation help, installation and the swap partition

2001-06-05 Thread Nathan
I am trying to document how the partitions are laid out in FreeBSD and I have noticed that the installation will place the sector offsets of the b (swap) partition before the last partition. And will also place the sector offsets of the largest partition as the last regardless to its name (ie: d o

unexplained strangness with cucipop pop3 daemon

2001-02-27 Thread Nathan Vidican
ng and must be restarted cylically? Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise would be highly appreciated at this point. Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://home.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Server will not recognize boot record for some reason

2001-01-02 Thread Nathan Vidican
the rest and boot it using Lilo (don't know if it's going to work...but it's worth a try). -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

eepro100 dual port cards with failover ?

2000-12-19 Thread Nathan Boeger
driver level or at the hardware level ? (if anyone knows ) and if FreeBSD does not support them then can anyone recommend something similar ? thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

changing the way mail spools are permissioned (for using web-based email service)

2000-12-13 Thread Nathan Vidican
ormation is as follows: Running: FreeBSD 4.1-2729-STABLE (no, I don't want to cvsup/update the machine...it works fine now, and that would cause downtime) Sendmail version: ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:38:08 -0500 (EST) -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor

Re: 4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ?

2000-12-06 Thread nathan
st 512 blocks of the harddrive and ran > > strings on it. Seems that thier was nothing their ! so I was lucky > > enough to have another 4.2 box and I just copied its first 512 blocks. > > Now it boots fine ! > > > > Is their a known issue with this ? or maybe I did s

4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ?

2000-12-06 Thread Nathan Boeger
! Is their a known issue with this ? or maybe I did something wrong ? thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread nathan
at http://www.sporner.com/bsdclusters > > Your webpages seem to be b0rked. > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message I have been doing something very simular at work. I was wondering i

Digi Xem help!

2000-11-06 Thread Nathan Boeger
Now what do I have to do ? I have played with permissions (cu is setuid, setgid) I have also tried to use stty and comcontrol but they say the same. Any help would be great !! thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

struct proc and struct vmspace help, please

2000-10-18 Thread Nathan Boeger
ill be greatly appreciated !!! thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

something strange about FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE booting? (on an IBM laptop)

2000-09-28 Thread Nathan Vidican
doubt that it will come back fixed. Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise would be greatly appreciated at this point. I don't think it'd be something with FreeBSD, but just in case, should I try to install a different version maybe? (was trying to install FreeBSD 4.1-STA

something strange about FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE booting? (on an IBM laptop)

2000-09-28 Thread Nathan Vidican
e, but somehow I doubt that it will come back fixed. Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or otherwise would be greatly appreciated at this point. I don't think it'd be something with FreeBSD, but just in case, should I try to install a different version maybe? (was trying to install FreeBSD

Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine

2000-08-18 Thread Nathan Vidican
don't know how it would be in terms of performance, but you might be able to put a few of these devices on to a system, and use vinum/raid of the raid systems, (seeing as how FreeBSD would just see them as giant scsi drives). I believe they do a setup which houses 8 ATA disks, in whi

Re: SMBFS

2000-08-09 Thread Nathan Vidican
sage > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message How did you implement SMBFS? Is it yet a part of FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE or? New kernel option? -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate

loader help !! (bug ??) 4.0-STABLE

2000-07-08 Thread nathan
way I almost the same options . and maybe automate it... Any help would be great !! thank you kindly nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: loader ??? Awwww... come on someone must know !!!

2000-07-02 Thread nathan
SD !! ). Either default (use local drive) or load the diskless > kernel , then boot diskless. > This way I almost the same options . and maybe automate it... > > Any help would be great !! > > thank you kindly > > nathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

loader and rootdev help !!

2000-06-30 Thread nathan
FreeBSD !! ). Either default (use local drive) or load the diskless kernel , then boot diskless. This way I almost the same options . and maybe automate it... Any help would be great !! thank you kindly nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

rlist.h !!! help !!!

2000-06-08 Thread Nathan
??? thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 3ware ATA RAID driver - second Beta released

2000-05-25 Thread Nathan Vidican
t the 8port 3ware card; what version of FreeBSD can support it, and how do I patch said driver into the kernel? Does this allow the hardware mirroring as setup by the bios in the 3ware card, or does one still need to use vinum? -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate &

Re: mremap help ? or no support for FreeBSD ? so do what ?

2000-05-13 Thread nathan
; > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Thanks but not to sound too pesky... When you wrote if (!mmap(base + offset, additional length, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, fd, offset)) { This may sound silly but after this is done then the file will reflect the changes ? and now the file will extend beyond the original size ? why do you need to unmap it ? if the file was mmap 'ed with MAP_SHARED and not MAP_FIXED wouldn't the changes be made to all objects ? then you only need to msync back the diff if any ? (or at all) See I want to get around using the fd at all. I just want to open the file then close it and just reference it from mem only. With Linux I think that you can do this by calling mremap Linux man : "mremap expands (or shrinks) an existing memory mapping" So it would be kinda like realloc but the changes would be seen by all objects.. ? and then I can close the fd and only keep track of 1 object. If I need to add to it ... mremap on it. Or am I just way off in my understanding ? I know that I did misuse the mmap in the top snipit but I was just playing. Thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mremap help ? or no support for FreeBSD ? so do what ?

2000-05-13 Thread nathan
only append to the buffer "base" and not have to re-open the file and write to it then msync it back to mem. I know that some of this under FreeBSD "automatic" meaning that the changes made to the file are seen by "base" even though I do not call msync. but in order

mremap help ? or no support for FreeBSD ? so do what ?

2000-05-12 Thread nathan
Is their a better solution besides just writing to the file and then calling msync ? Is their new plans to make a mremap call for FreeBSD 4.x ? Or am I just sh%t out of luck ? thank you in advance .... nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

FreeBSD 4.0 installation for Laptops ??

2000-04-28 Thread nathan
select a device installation it does not list my ethernet ? It was supported under 3.3 and 3.2 (with PAO) has thier been changes ? or is thier something special i need to do ? Please any help ? Sorry for spelling thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Sound for Intel and Alpha

2000-03-09 Thread nathan
Is the soundblaster support for FreeBSD good ? (both intel and alpha) if so does is support any of the SB pci cards ? Do the supported cards work on both platforms ? if so which ones ? Thier is no specific mention of sound card chip sets for freebsd on their web site thank you nathan To

Setting the default gw (with c)

2000-02-13 Thread nathan
add_rt, l); syslog(LOG_ERR, "errno = %d ", errno); } else{ /* get a buffer for the data */ ERR("get_droute returned ok %d "); } return(GOOD); } Thank you nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Device Drivers

2000-01-24 Thread Nathan Cohen
I;d like to start contributing to the project, and I've heard unanimously a good place to start is device drivers. However, I'd like to try something other than sound cards (the only major recommendation I've heard so far) Are there any NICs, or other driver areas where FreeBSD could use some

Multiplexers

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan Cohen
I've been interested in becomng a FreeBSD-Hacker for awhile now, and now that I have a pretty good understanding of C, I've been reading Tanenbaum's books on Computer Organization and Operating Systems. However, I've run into a problem on the digital-logic level of things. >From my understandin

Re: Hackers in space?

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan Dorfman
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ -- Nathan Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

I'd like to help!

1999-12-21 Thread Nathan Gould
uivalent - most commerical system offer this- any thoughts? Regards, Nathan Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Huge Binaries..

1999-10-02 Thread Nathan Kinsman
ce, BSDI version uses 14788K. Not sure what the additional memory requirements of use BSDI emulation are, but I can notice the speed difference between Linux and BSDI versions due to less paging. - Nathan Kinsman To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Are certain parts of kernel not using suser() when they should?

1999-08-24 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
patches for this on my web page. http://www.freebsd.org/~nrahlstr/suser.patch I had been working with Eivind on it, but I have not had time as of late. The patch that is there should be close to commit ready modulo a decsion to use suser vs. suser_xxx. If anyone is interested in committing this patc

Re: Are certain parts of kernel not using suser() when they should?

1999-08-24 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
in committing this patch, I can work with them/clean it up if necessary. Thanks! Nathan -- Nathan AhlstromFreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
t; contractor in question.. :) Would it be possible to have this code put up for www/ftp or something, so that anyone who is interested could have a look? I, for one, would like to have a look at it. Nathan, not ready to commit to working on something like this. :( -- Nathan Ahlstrom

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
t; contractor in question.. :) Would it be possible to have this code put up for www/ftp or something, so that anyone who is interested could have a look? I, for one, would like to have a look at it. Nathan, not ready to commit to working on something like this. :( -- Nathan Ahlstrom

Re: USENIX FreeBSD Dinner

1999-05-11 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
m700.html > > please let me know what you guys think, I want this to be a good time for > all... > > -Pat > > > ___ > > Pat Lynch ly...@rush.net > Systems Administrator