Re: Struggling with VirtualBox

2008-12-04 Thread walt
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Michael Neumann wrote: > > I'm still trying to get DragonFly reliably working on VirtualBox (just > > because Qemu on my Ubuntu doesn't like to run with the > > accelerator kqemu). > > > > So I modified DELAY to break out if delta <= 0. Toge

Re: Struggling with VirtualBox

2008-12-03 Thread walt
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Michael Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still trying to get DragonFly reliably working on VirtualBox (just because > Qemu on my Ubuntu doesn't like to run with the > accelerator kqemu)... It would certainly be nice to get it working, but if all you want to do is run dragonfly t

Re: Vote for your source control system! Oct 22-26

2008-10-22 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: I want to know where people stand on what source control system they'd like DragonFly to use. This isn't a final decision but if there is a clear winner it could become one. The two primary contenders are Git and Mercurial, but feel free to vote fo

Re: HAMMER Update - 16-July-2008

2008-07-17 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: ...I'm not pulling the disk's power, just its USB connector :-) -Matt Now that you brought it up -- what would you expect to happen if you did pull the power plug?

Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: HAMMER is really shaping up now... This is far, FAR better then the cluster model I was using last week and had to throw away. Massively better. Like night and day. I'm fond of telling political hotheads (which you once were, but no longer ;o) that,

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-08 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: :There's always the option of releasing a 1.12 version now (it's not like :there haven't been enough changes to justify a new release). The 2.0 release :is likely to get a lot of downloads, so I think shipping it with a pre-alpha :hammer is a waste of an opportunity to attra

Re: Naive HAMMER question

2008-01-15 Thread walt
Bill Hacker wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: ...the filesystems, and possibly even the kernel, should just be neutral about the whole mess and allow (or at least not disallow) binary encodings, which is pretty much how it works now. [WBH] Carrying encoding deeper than it otherwise needs to be a

Re: Naive HAMMER question

2008-01-15 Thread walt
Bill Hacker wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: .. My personal opinion is that the kernel should be responsible for filename translation rather than the filesystem. HAMMER just sees a character string, it doesn't know or care what format it is in. Heavily dependent on UTF-8 (and several Chinese en

Re: pkgsrc bulk build and tiff

2007-09-11 Thread walt
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I managed to get pbulk working on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org - the output is below. tiff doesn't want to build - it fails during the install process with : => Checking for missing run-time search paths in tiff-3.8.2nb3 ERROR: /usr/pkg/lib/libtiffxx.so: libstdc++.so

Re: HEADS up on HEAD

2007-05-18 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Note that due to recent changes in HEAD, people using HEAD need to > rebuild and reinstall the kernel AND world AND do a make upgrade to > deal with device minor number changes that have occured. > > devices will only be partially compatible with 1.8. e.g de

Re: vmspace changes to use sysref

2007-05-01 Thread walt
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Here's a patch I'd like people getting tons of stray interrupt > messages to try. All it does is limit the number and frequency > of reports so the screen doesn't fill up with spam. I see about two screens full of stray interrupts, then an

Re: vmspace changes to use sysref

2007-05-01 Thread walt
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Could you print out your mptable? run 'mptable'. Even though its > a single-cpu machine there might be an IOAPIC # mptable -verbose -grope === MPTable, version

Re: vmspace changes to use sysref

2007-05-01 Thread walt
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Oh, also try with the absolute latest HEAD. I don't think SYSREF > could have had any effect on the interrupt routing, but the other > work recently committed certainly could have. > > I have some ideas with regards to the livelock issu

Re: vmspace changes to use sysref

2007-04-30 Thread walt
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote: > ...I'd appreciate it if a couple of people could help test these changes. > SYSREF is going to be used all over the place and it has to be solid. > vmspace was one of the more difficult structures to convert... Well, no panics yet, but I'm see

Re: first stab at simple mailer

2007-03-20 Thread walt
Emiel Kollof wrote: > Op dinsdag 20 maart 2007 22:43, schreef Simon 'corecode' Schubert: > >> How it works: [...] > If I somehow lag behind with this ... I'm lagging behind both of you by decades :o) but I do have a question, based on years of reading bikeshed debates over what email solution is

Re: VKernel progress update - 8 Jan 2006 (milestone reached!)

2007-01-10 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Will a virtual kernel be able to run another virtual kernel as one of > :its user processes? >

Re: VKernel progress update - 8 Jan 2006 (milestone reached!)

2007-01-10 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Okay, but I guess no other subsystem would benefit from this. However, h= > :ow do you manage to "break out"? You'd have to have some kind of context= > : switching, right? > Right now a virtual kernel runs as a single user process on the real > kernel... Will a

RE: Unable to buildworld

2006-05-15 Thread walt
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: [...] > mkdep -f .depend -a > -I/usr/obj/usr/src/world_i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc34/cc_tools/gengenrtl/../ > /../cc_prep -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc34/cc_tools/gengenrtl/..//../cc_prep > -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc34/cc_tools/gengenrtl/..//../cc_prep/con

Re: Unable to buildworld

2006-05-12 Thread walt
Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > Been stuck here for a few weeks now. Blew away my source tree and repulled it > down. No effect. Ideas ? [...] > gcc/system.h:214:20: /usr/obj/usr/src/world_i386/usr/include/fcntl.h: File > name too long... This kind of strange error makes me think about file corruption

Re: pkgsrc packaging of base?

2006-02-08 Thread walt
David Kirchner wrote: > On 2/8/06, Paul Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ironically you completely missed my point*. :o) >> >> * My whole ramble about not making a disciplined >> contribution to the discussion was about mentioning an >> orthogonal issue :o) in a conversation that could be >

Re: pkgsrc packaging of base?

2006-02-08 Thread walt
Steve Mynott wrote: > Maybe its a little early in the life of DF pkgsrc to think of this, > but has anyone considering hooking up the kernel/userland build > process so that the kernel and userland binaries are under the binary > package control of the pkgsrc pkg_* utilities? > > I'm not sure quit

Re: Kernel work update

2006-01-31 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: [...] > This work will eventually dovetail into the ZFS work... I had no idea what ZFS was, so I googled it and found this: "...Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology, which is unique to ZFS..." I still don't know was ZFS is, but now I know it's propriet

Re: sysmouse/tty weirdness

2006-01-31 Thread walt
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: [...] > Turns out that /dev/sysmouse is sending bullshit:... I hate giving/getting WFM answers, but it really does WFM. Do I recall that you are running a 64-bit machine? Using gcc 4.x? Does the 'one other' machine with the same problem ha

Re: code bounties for DragonFly ?

2006-01-26 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: > ...I have a whole list of things that I know have to be done to > achieve the infrastructure required to form the basis for clustered > computing... If I had the know-how I would be anxious to contribute my time free of charge -- in exchange for all of the work

Re: cowloop technology

2006-01-21 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: > A devfs is not going to impact performance. That isn't the problem > with it. There are three problems with it. [...] > ...I think all you need is to have base names in a special > filesystem or filesystem overlay and a VFS layer which parses the name >

Re: Max, where are you??

2006-01-14 Thread walt
Max Okumoto wrote: > Walt & Gang > > Damn, I knew I should read mail more often. :-/ > Things are fine... Ah, I'm happy to hear it. Obviously, you have not said to your wife: 'make dinner!' or you would not be so fine ;o) I can only hope that your startup company

Re: final thoughts - bug tracking system

2005-09-20 Thread walt
Michel Talon wrote: -On [20050920 00:11], walt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'll bet asmodai could finish this project in a day or two at most. Well, a day or two is very optimistic... ...this stuff is rather complicated C++, and i have had hard time even understanding the syntax of

Re: final thoughts - bug tracking system

2005-09-19 Thread walt
Hiten Pandya wrote: Maybe this is the wakeup call that everyone needs to recognize the we need to strengthen our Java support and do something about it in a pro-active manner. I've been trying to help Geert Hendrickxs get pkgsrc/jdk14 to compile on DragonFly. He is very happy to help us, but

Re: PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release

2005-09-03 Thread walt
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: -On [20050902 15:43], Jonathan Buschmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So it's a build option but the bootstrap doesn't enable that option by default and without that pkgsrc doesn't fulfill the goal of a package management system.for Dfly. Probably I'm worng with that

Re: bug tracking system

2005-09-01 Thread walt
Jonathan Dama wrote: Is there seriously any reason not to just copy FreeBSD's pr system? - It works anonymously and transparently. Well, it's as transparent as sendmail. Any system which depends on sendmail will filter out everyone who can't configure sendmail: a 'client-side' solution to

Re: bug tracking system

2005-09-01 Thread walt
Hiten Pandya wrote: Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Does Bugzilla provide an option to allow email based replies back to the bug report? Or do you have to login and reply via web interface? I am certain it allows e-mail based replies and CVS integration as well. I file bug reports on firefox and th

Re: DragonFlyBSD threading model

2005-08-01 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: The LWKT scheduler is a fixed priority scheduler. For example, if you do a 'ps ax' you will see a ton of kernel threads in addition to userland... I don't. But I have only uni-processor machines, and not very busy ones at that. Would there be a difference betwe

Re: HEADS UP: ABI changes in HEAD

2005-07-25 Thread walt
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: I also want to have a stable ABI, I'm doing a lot of package building myself :-) I notice that your pkgsrc.diff is dated June 08. Have you been saving your latest patches for our Christmas present? ;o)