Hi all,
check_region() patches attached. Next patchset will be ready in monday.
Best regards,
Andrey
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diff -urN /mnt/disk/linux/drivers/net/3c501.c /linux/drivers/net/3c501.c
--- /mnt/disk/linux/drivers/net/3c501.c Tue Sep 12 23:47:56 2000
+++ /linux/drivers/net/3c501.c Thu Sep 28
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Art Boulatov wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Is AD1881A (AC'97 audio) codec supported?
> >
> > Sort of - it mostly works nowdays but mic recording is unsupported still.
> > Its solid in 2.2.18pre so should be solid in 2.4.0test9
>
> Ok, thanks,
>
> One more thing I'm
HI
I borrowed the block_write code from fs/block_dev.c. When I am doing a
write the task locks up in schedual() - wait_on_buffer(). This means
that the buffer is locked, and stays locked.
The funny thing is when I do a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/igf0 bs=1024
count=16' the driver works and writ
Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:48:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > The only thing I'm not sure is that I believe the SPARC people uses
> > ttyS* for Zilog 8530-based serial ports. I don't know if we want to
> > define this as NS8250-family serial ports in light of tha
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Paul Powell wrote:
>
> > We are using Linux as a bootable CD for system
> > configuration. We would like to keep all the
> > information displayed at bootup hidden. The main
> > reason for this is because our users see wor
Hi Linus,
This part was missing from the leases & directory notification
patch that was applied to 2.4.0-test9pre5. Please apply.
Cheers,
Stephen
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> -Original Message-
> From: Horst von Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:45 PM
[snip]
> When Linux started, there was _no_ decent freeware C++
> compiler around.
IMO, it was worse even than that. C++ itself hadn't stablized as a language
to the
"Alexander Valys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I haven't done either. I have booted linux in the following manner (no OS
> is installed at this point).
> 1. Turn on Computer
> 2. Put CD in while RAM is counting
> 3. view slackware boot prompt
> 4. press enter
> 5. watch kernel messages scroll
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
>Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > - Only 64 of 96 mbytes ram was found
>
>> BIOS issue
>
>Yes, but here 2.4.0test do find all 128Mb. Really dunno if latest 2.2.18pre
>get it right, should check some day...
Hi,
As far as I k
You could use a semaphore for this. Initialize it to 0, then call
down() from the ioctl, and up() from the interrupt handler. If the
up() happens before the down(), the down() won't go to sleep.
Nigel
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Hi all,
I am programming a device driver on PLX9060 chipset, and want to config DMA
controller by IO memory,
but I find that can't access them in regular way,below are my codes.
>cat /proc/pci
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Bridge: PLX Unknown device (rev 3).
Vendor id=10b5. Devi
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:25:09PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <3776575819.970144217@[10.10.1.2]>,
> And unreliable ISP SMTP servers? Hard to imagine, as 99.5% of the
> userbase undoubtedly uses that SMTP server and I can't believe
> that a reasonable ISP randomly drops email
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:44:55PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > Let's put it the other way... there aren't many people who know C++
> > around. Well, there are less peopl
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:41:09AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:41:41PM -0700, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
> > I find that the compile of gnome-utils fails as follows...
> >
> > In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:21,
> > from /usr/include
Heh.. I needed to figure this out about 6 months ago. Here's the "right
answer"
Before sending the command to the board, call
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE). This will prevent the scheduler
from interrupting your task, but more importantly it will prevent your task
from being re-schedu
Hello,
In order to get the configuration of a board, I have to send, from
userspace, an ioctl to the driver and wait for the board to complete its
action. The way this is implemented is as follows:
- In the ioctl, the driver sends a command to the board and then goes to
sleep (interruptible_sl
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > - Only 64 of 96 mbytes ram was found
> BIOS issue
Yes, but here 2.4.0test do find all 128Mb. Really dunno if latest 2.2.18pre
get it right, should check some day...
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Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar,
At 00:40 29/09/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm writing some code to grok the Intel EFI GUID Partition Table structures.
>To to so, my partition reading code (in fs/partitions) needs to be able to
>read one physical sector at a time, particularly the first and last sectors
>on the disk. The br
I haven't done either. I have booted linux in the following manner (no OS
is installed at this point).
1. Turn on Computer
2. Put CD in while RAM is counting
3. view slackware boot prompt
4. press enter
5. watch kernel messages scroll by.
6. format disks
7. -- errors --
Any other ideas? T
Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is AD1881A (AC'97 audio) codec supported?
>
> Sort of - it mostly works nowdays but mic recording is unsupported still.
> Its solid in 2.2.18pre so should be solid in 2.4.0test9
Ok, thanks,
One more thing I'm concerned about (which is not really kernel related),
does the
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 03:03:30 +0200 (CEST),
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> [...] You prefer to make NMI for UP mandatory, change the existing
>> behaviour and force people who use performance counters to turn off
>> EVNTSEL1 themselves. [...]
There is no APM support in the BIOS on the Dell Inspiron 5000e - it's ACPI
only.
Thanks,
Matt
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Sightler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 3:59 PM
> To: Linux-Kernel
> Subject: APM Problems
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having a pro
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> [...] You prefer to make NMI for UP mandatory, change the existing
> behaviour and force people who use performance counters to turn off
> EVNTSEL1 themselves. [...]
no, AFAIK there is no performance counter support in the vanilla kernel,
but there is a
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:13:06 +0200 (CEST),
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Using performance counter 1 for NMI conflicts with using the
>> performance counters for tuning. IMHO it is better to default to NMI
>> off for UP so we do not disturb peo
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is the 82801BA Contoller Hub (ICH2) supported (would I get ATA-100
> > working)?
>
> It will work. I dont know if you'll get ATA100 with 2.4test. You wont with
> 2.2
Yes ICH2 is native.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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I'm writing some code to grok the Intel EFI GUID Partition Table structures.
To to so, my partition reading code (in fs/partitions) needs to be able to
read one physical sector at a time, particularly the first and last sectors
on the disk. The bread() function ultimately calls ll_rw_block(), whi
> Is the 82801BA Contoller Hub (ICH2) supported (would I get ATA-100
> working)?
It will work. I dont know if you'll get ATA100 with 2.4test. You wont with
2.2
> Is AD1881A (AC'97 audio) codec supported?
Sort of - it mostly works nowdays but mic recording is unsupported still.
Its solid in 2.
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> > This is exactly what Linus meant when he said he doesn't want an in-kernel
> > debugger: Dumb it down, and you select dumber hackers, and the result is a mess.
>
> So you must be in favor of removing all
> comments from
Hi
After some rethought over the patch (and feedback from Linus)
I have made another version that should work also on SMP
Sparc.
As always, any comment/feedback/Bug reports/... are welcome.
Later, Juan.
ChangeLog:
v2.0:
- shrink_[id]_caches don't return the number of
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:41:41PM -0700, Jack Howarth wrote:
> I find that the compile of gnome-utils fails as follows...
>
> In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:21,
> from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:23,
> from badblocks.c:43:
Yes, a well-known ph
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:06:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > is nothing wrong).
> >
> > Anyone know how other than changing the kernel code?
>
> You need to change the initial kernel message logging level to be higher
> yes
lower, actually. putting "quiet" in the command line should work for
Hi,
Our company is going to purchase some hardware to run Linux
workstations.
We're looking forward into getting i815e based ASUS motherboards,
and I will be really glad if you could help me figure out the following
hardware support questions I couldn't figure myself.
I've searched the LKML arch
Horst von Brand wrote:
> This is exactly what Linus meant when he said he doesn't want an in-kernel
> debugger: Dumb it down, and you select dumber hackers, and the result is a mess.
So you must be in favor of removing all
comments from the kernel source, in order to select even less dumb
hacke
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > 2.2.18pre11
>
> I should mention that using an almost-all-modularised config I get this
> for the last few pachlevels:
>
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre11/misc/rio.o
This patch fixes this:
---
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:48:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The only thing I'm not sure is that I believe the SPARC people uses
> ttyS* for Zilog 8530-based serial ports. I don't know if we want to
> define this as NS8250-family serial ports in light of that; I more
> tended to think of it
Hello,
In building the RedHat 7.0 srpm for gnome-utils on linuxppc
using glibc 2.1.94 and the Linux 2.4-test9 kernel I believe
I have uncovered a flaw in the linux/fs.h header. Unless I
apply a patch like below to linux/fs.h...
--- fs.h.orgThu Sep 28 18:32:55 2000
+++ fs.hThu Sep
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> Using performance counter 1 for NMI conflicts with using the
> performance counters for tuning. IMHO it is better to default to NMI
> off for UP so we do not disturb people who are doing performance
> monitoring. [...]
the number of people experiencing
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> 2.2.18pre11
I should mention that using an almost-all-modularised config I get this
for the last few pachlevels:
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.18pre11/misc/rio.o
depmod: gs_set_termios
depmod: gs_chars_in_buffer
depmod: gs_write
d
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:19:29 +0200 (CEST),
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>the attached patch (against test9-pre7) is a cleaned up version Keir
>Fraser's APIC-on-UP patch, and adds the enabling code of Keith Owens which
>programs P6 performance counter 0 as an NMI. (i simplified the code
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> Machine is an uniprocessor AMD Thunderbird on an Asus A7V mobo.
hm, it will not work on class 6 AMD systems. I'll fix this.
Ingo
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> the attached patch (against test9-pre7) is a cleaned up version Keir
> Fraser's APIC-on-UP patch, and adds the enabling code of Keith Owens which
> programs P6 performance counter 0 as an NMI. (i simplified the code alot -
> there is no problem at all with getting NMIs from
ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test9. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.0-test9 (specified)
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0010
c012eca
> is nothing wrong).
>
> Anyone know how other than changing the kernel code?
You need to change the initial kernel message logging level to be higher
yes
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Please read the FA
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Paul Powell wrote:
> We are using Linux as a bootable CD for system
> configuration. We would like to keep all the
> information displayed at bootup hidden. The main
> reason for this is because our users see words such as
> "error" and "failed" and it bothers them (though
I tried booting 2.4.0-test9-pre7 today on my work machine for the first time,
and it hung up when one of my user programs was started. The process
"receiver_d" uses sockets and shared memory and has worked without problems
for years with many kernel versions up through 2.4.0-test9-pre5.
I did ma
> - Only 64 of 96 mbytes ram was found
BIOS issue
> - Trident 4DWave DX show those messages: trident: drain_dac, dma timeout?
I've sene these a few times, they are harmless but I need to figure out why
the tail clear code causes them
>
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** Reply to message from Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 28 Sep
2000 16:44:55 -0400
> Right. And C++ was designed carefully along "you pay for what you use", so
> with careful programming it should be no worse. OTOH, in C you _see_ the
> costs [OK, maybe a hardened asm-fanatic will t
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:17:11AM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> [The patch is available. There are a few security advantages.
> Also, it makes a fork a just measurable fraction of a percent
> faster.]
>
> How does it make it faster? The only thing I can see is it might
> remove th
Hi !
As I see recently on this list, I'm also experiencing spontaneous
reboot here.
This happen _twice_ with kernel 2.4.test9pre7 on my mostly idle
and never overclocked K6 machine.
It's so strange because this machine always run 2.4.x kernels
with high load without any problems..
Unfortunately
Hi !
Init function for hisax driver cause a kernel hangup if the
idstring was omitted
"hisax=18,2" hang on boot
"hisax=18,2,HiSax" was fine
Kernel 2.4.x and modularized hisax was fine as well.
--- linux/drivers/isdn/hisax/config.c.orig Wed May 10 15:26:11 2000
+++ linux/drivers/
Some problems here..
- Only 64 of 96 mbytes ram was found
- Trident 4DWave DX show those messages: trident: drain_dac, dma timeout?
I'll provide more info/testing on request,
luca
ver_linux:
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Linux luca.home.net 2.2.18pre11 #8 Wed Sep 27 22:27:35 CEST 2000 i586 unknown
Kernel module
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> Cool. Is there anything else I need to know in order to the
> UP-NMI-oopser effectively? It sounds like it'll just force an OOPS to
> occur where a deadlock might have occured in the past. Is this
> correct? If so, then using it is easy and I'll just see
Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
[...]
> > - The're a lot more people that know C than C++
> Let's put it the other way... there aren't many people who know C++
> around. Well, there are less people who unders
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:32:17PM +0100, Bernhard Bender wrote:
> looking at my process list after a week or so of uptime I discoverd that PIDs
> seem to wrap around at 32767 (aka. 2^15 - 1).
Yes.
> I find this "feature" annoying, since I like to view my process list sorted
> by PID, which giv
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> if SysRq works then this is a 'soft lockup', and if you want to debug this
> then you should capture the EIP values from RightAlt+ScrLk output, thats
> the place where it locks up. The UP-NMI-oopser will not help.
>
> Ingo
Cool. Is there anything else I need to kn
Ingo,
Can you please outline exactly what testers with UP machines
need to do to build, set up, enable and debug using this
new code?
I have an Athlon 750MHz machine and a Pentium II laptop
that I use for testing and I'd like to exercise some of
the experimental VM code. I have gotten system
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> how best to extract useful debugging information from the deadlocked
> systems. Any help you can give in this regard would be much
> appreciated. I have used SysRq successfully, but I don't know how to
> use the information I am given to find the salient
In article <3776575819.970144217@[10.10.1.2]>,
Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When I was researching the use of ORBS and MAPS a few weeks
>> back, my first thought was that the DUL would unfairly block Linux
>> users running Sendmail. Looks like that's true.
>
>Just give sendmail a
In article <8qvfae$j52$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>2.2.18pre11
>[..]
>>o Fix inia100/megaraid define clash (Arjan van de Ven)
>[..]
>
>The megaraid driver in 2.2.18
Hi out there!
I was asked a question lately that I was unable to answer: Assume you
want to make a (encrypted, but that's not the issue here) filesystem on
a loopback block device (/dev/loop*). Can this be a journalling one? In
other words, will
prompt$ mount -t {ext3|reiserfs} -oloop my_file my
Hi all,
I am trying very hard to get kernel 2.4.0-test8 to recognize the Promise
Ultra66 PCI IDE add-on card -- based on PDC 20265.
The motherboard is a FIC SD-11 (Athlon 700). The only other PCI card is a
D-link quad ethernet card (DFE-570TX).
The kernel correctly recognizes the card as a PDC-
Hello,
2.4.0-test1 and higher. make sure you select PIII as the CPU in the config.
Best Wishes,
Lyle
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Which version of the kernel is needed in order to run the following
program on an PIII?
void main()
{
__asm__ __volatile__("xorps %%xmm0, %%xmm1" ::: "memory");
}
astor
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We are using Linux as a bootable CD for system
configuration. We would like to keep all the
information displayed at bootup hidden. The main
reason for this is because our users see words such as
"error" and "failed" and it bothers them (though there
is nothing wrong).
Anyone know how other tha
> > When I was researching the use of ORBS and MAPS a few weeks
> > back, my first thought was that the DUL would unfairly block Linux
> > users running Sendmail. Looks like that's true.
>
> Just give sendmail a smart_host of your ISP's mail server. In theory
> I guess this slows thi
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Phil Randal wrote:
> When I was researching the use of ORBS and MAPS a few weeks
> back, my first thought was that the DUL would unfairly block Linux
> users running Sendmail. Looks like that's true.
> The DUL's rationale is very suspect. The logic goes... Some
> spam
> Kernel segfaults on boot with MTRRs enabled.
> Kernel locks system hard. Requires hardware reset
> Recompiling without MTRR support eliminates problem.
I broke cyrix support - wait for pre12
Sorry about that
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> When I was researching the use of ORBS and MAPS a few weeks
> back, my first thought was that the DUL would unfairly block Linux
> users running Sendmail. Looks like that's true.
Just give sendmail a smart_host of your ISP's mail server. In theory
I guess this slows thing down, and yes it's a p
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:14:14AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, that looks like 2.4.0-test9 now, except that it should
> > > be done for ohci also, although you don't need it for your
> > > config.
> >
> > Right,
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:07:46AM -0700, David Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:13:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > > I'm getting this compile time error on 2.2.18pre11:
> > >
>
> I had the same problem; the DUL people said there had been people spamming
> from my ISP, so they blocked _every_ user from that ISP (which is quite big)
> I found very annoying that it just took a Joe Spammer to rip me from my
> right to run sendmail on my PC. Funny, huh?
>
> So I switched I
the attached patch (against test9-pre7) is a cleaned up version Keir
Fraser's APIC-on-UP patch, and adds the enabling code of Keith Owens which
programs P6 performance counter 0 as an NMI. (i simplified the code alot -
there is no problem at all with getting NMIs from two sources, and it's
not ne
Kernel segfaults on boot with MTRRs enabled.
Kernel locks system hard. Requires hardware reset
Recompiling without MTRR support eliminates problem.
/proc/version
Linux version 2.2.18pre11 (root@shockwave) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #6 Wed Sep 27 15:25:03 E
** Reply to message from Martin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu,
28 Sep 2000 20:31:05 +0200
> Simple: The fact that G++ is constantly changing what it's generatign
> even
> between minor numbers:
>
> 1. Calling conventions.
> 2. Name mungling.
> 3. Construct semantics.
> 4. Run time support
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:38:23PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> This message may be seen by some to be OT, but it concerns
> ISP's SMTP. I figured despite the slowness, it would solve the
> problem. Now I'm getting back all sorts of bounces from machines
> blocking using something at "www.mail
Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> > Some arguments why not to use it in the kernel :
> >
> > - C++ gives overhead. With something like a kernel that's unwanted.
>
> You pay for what you use, no less no more. C++ compilers don'
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> This would also explain why the direntry offset is pointing past the
> end of the first dir block, because the next block was added at the time
> the new file was created, but then later lost.
Nope. Try the following:
@@ -378,12 +378,13 @@
Marco writes:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:51:02AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:29:27PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > >
> > > EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,6)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory
> > > #28699: rec_le
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:58:35 -0700, Howell, David P wrote:
> My 2 cents.
>
> I don't read this mail list for this type of rubbish either. The technical
> detail of this thread is all that seems appropriate here, not the issue
> between George and Russell. I'd be embarrassed if I were either of
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> Some arguments why not to use it in the kernel :
>
> - C++ gives overhead. With something like a kernel that's unwanted.
You pay for what you use, no less no more. C++ compilers don't generate
bloated code `per se' but, yes, i
Howell, David P writes:
> I don't read this mail list for this type of rubbish either. The technical
> detail of this thread is all that seems appropriate here, not the issue
> between George and Russell. I'd be embarrassed if I were either of them,
> the way that they have presented themselves
My 2 cents.
I don't read this mail list for this type of rubbish either. The technical
detail of this thread is all that seems appropriate here, not the issue
between George and Russell. I'd be embarrassed if I were either of them,
the way that they have presented themselves, don't they or the
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Lars Gaarden wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is anyone working on support for the Promise PDC20295
> ATA100 chip?
Are you sure it is not the PDC20265?
> If not, does anyone know if specs are available from
> Promise?
>
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Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
> Well, I *like* using // for one line comments, and I *hate* having my
> code obfuscated with extra declaration lines just because I can't
> declare something in the middle of a block.
Those are rather weak reasons for selecting one language over
Hi all,
I am developing a driver for a crypto card... and i need this driver to run
on different kernel versions say 2.0.x to 2.2.x... how do i do that or
is it better not to support backward kernels like 2.0 any help
appreciated...
thanks in advance
azad
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Thanks Ricky, that's a great help!
Nick.
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Nick Loman wrote:
> >I'm trying to compile in Ricky Beam's patched dpt_i2o.c file (for DPT
> >SmartRAID V support) into the kernel. I got it working as a module, but
> >now I want it compiled
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Nick Loman wrote:
>I'm trying to compile in Ricky Beam's patched dpt_i2o.c file (for DPT
>SmartRAID V support) into the kernel. I got it working as a module, but
>now I want it compiled directly in.
I run with it compiled in (I boot from the SR-V.)
I've put diffs for 2.4.0-t
> If a kernel hangs early in the boot process (before the console has
> been initialized) then printk is no use because you never see the
> output. There is a technique for using the video display to indicate
> boot progress so you can localize the problem. Reporting "my kernel
> hangs during bo
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
> >
> > Yes, that looks like 2.4.0-test9 now, except that it should
> > be done for ohci also, although you don't need it for your
> > config.
>
> Right, but it doesn't look like the usb-ohci driver uses
> initcalls like
> the oth
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Does that mean SPARC has a conflict between the 8250/16x50 driver and the
> Zilog driver? If so, the latter should probably move (ttyZ is still an
> unused name.)
If there's a conflict it would be with the minor numbers, which
I haven't been able to c
Hi there...
One of my teachers (a linux newbie) got the
following kernel panic with a pre-compiled
redhat 6.2 standard kernel:
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
with friendly regards
jens luedicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Support the Theory of Ev
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
>
> Yes, that looks like 2.4.0-test9 now, except that it should
> be done for ohci also, although you don't need it for your
> config.
Right, but it doesn't look like the usb-ohci driver uses initcalls like
the other functions. I co
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> To bad I don't have time to get the basic kernel code.. Would be a good
> investment in time I guess.
>
> I assume the above struct holds pointers to the essential function
> calls, with a NULL value if the're not overridden (defaults) ?
See incl
Stuart MacDonald wrote:
>
> From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > The only thing I'm not sure is that I believe the SPARC people uses
> > > ttyS* for Zilog 8530-based serial ports. I don't know if we want to
> > > define this as NS8250-family serial ports in light of that; I more
> > > tend
> Oh, I understand why #2 is necessary, that doesn't mean that I don't hear
> people complain about it anyway. On a side note, I consider lack of a real
> kernel debugger to be evidence for #1. But I don't want to kick that dead
> horse again.
Well, I'm one of those guys who never uses debugge
After waking up my machine from a sleep, the network goes in fits and starts.
Any network connections will pause for a bit, then flow for a bit, and so on.
The network card is Tulip-based (either a d-link or linksys) in an Athlon
box running standard RH6.2 with apmd. A reboot is necessary to res
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > > I'm getting this compile time error on 2.2.18pre11:
> > >
> > > > drivers/usb/usbdrv.o: In function `usb_init':
> > > > drivers/usb/usbdrv.o(.text+0x6deb): undefined reference
> to `uhci_init'
> > >
> > > The patch below should fix that.
>
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Richard Polton wrote:
> I have been advised that PCMCIA cd-writers are not supported by Linux.
> Is this true and
> if so, will they be?
That strongly depends on what type of interface is used by the PCMCIA card. By
definition a complete CD writer will not fit into a PCMCIA sl
> > Tell my teacher it's a good idea, he is telling otherwise :)
>
>Teaching people to UNDERSTAND and THINK in OO methods can help
>in several problems. There is no absolute requirement that
>final implementations are done in any sort of OO languages.
>
>.. any language with st
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > > OO is indeed != C++. But since it's a relative if C, it's the most
> > > suitable option to use in the kernel.
> >
> > What's wrong with C itself?
>
> Nothing. What I was saying if you want som
> Just remember what another, quite famous, teacher told Linus about failing
> him for the monolithic design of Linux if he took his OS class. Then look
> around and search for the ukernel OSes he predicted would be ubiquitous
> very soon afterwards...
>
> Don't believe what teachers say. Code s
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