Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
Kai Henningsen wrote: > No. GEM, I believe, originally came from CP/M. Most popular as the > windowing system of the Atari ST; given that someone did a quick-hack MS- > DOS clone to support it on the 68K, it seems fairly obvious that by that > time, it had already been ported to MS-DOS. (GEM-DOS

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
Kai Henningsen wrote: No. GEM, I believe, originally came from CP/M. Most popular as the windowing system of the Atari ST; given that someone did a quick-hack MS- DOS clone to support it on the 68K, it seems fairly obvious that by that time, it had already been ported to MS-DOS. (GEM-DOS is

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
David Weinehall wrote: > > We don't provide the binutils or gcc with the kernel either. The 6502 > > is a rather well known processor. Try plonking "6502 assembler" in > > google and you'll have a lot of choice. > > Me likee, finally asm in the kernel I can grok. Someone else who has trouble

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/coda.h

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ryan Cumming wrote: > When compiling the kernel under FreeBSD, __KERNEL__ is defined, but > __linux__ is not. I think this is an error on the part of the header file, > because on non-Linux build environments, which would otherwise compile the > Linux kernel correctly, do not have __linux__

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/coda.h

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ryan Cumming wrote: When compiling the kernel under FreeBSD, __KERNEL__ is defined, but __linux__ is not. I think this is an error on the part of the header file, because on non-Linux build environments, which would otherwise compile the Linux kernel correctly, do not have __linux__ defined.

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
David Weinehall wrote: We don't provide the binutils or gcc with the kernel either. The 6502 is a rather well known processor. Try plonking 6502 assembler in google and you'll have a lot of choice. Me likee, finally asm in the kernel I can grok. Someone else who has trouble with x86

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > > > An interesting option (though with less-than-stellar performance > > characteristics) would be a dynamically expanding swapfile. If you're > > going to be hit with swap penalties, it may be useful to not have to > >

Re: binfmt_misc on 2.4.3-ac14

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >is it going to become the default in future kernel releases? > It's been that way in the -ac kernels for a while now, but Linus hasn't put it > into his kernels yet. Perhaps he's waiting until work begins on 2.5, rather > than break an

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, LA Walsh wrote: An interesting option (though with less-than-stellar performance characteristics) would be a dynamically expanding swapfile. If you're going to be hit with swap penalties, it may be useful to not have to pre-reserve

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating > the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after > installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I > can't mount it read-only

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I can't mount it read-only because

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > Looks ok to me but given the ability of the average kernel hacker to read > help texts I;d rather it was a choice menu of say OK, I guess I gave too much credit :) This gives 4 options, 4K, 8K, 16K, and 32K. 4K is for the embedded guys, but they might want even less. 32K is

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > Since we expect to get errata docs very soon Im not that worried. As an > implementation I'd rather a module option of 'ignore_blacklist' or similar > so that it is runtime This seamed to work here. -Thomas diff -u --new-file --recursive

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > IMO, it would be nice to add a test here whether the CONFIG_PRINTK_BUF_LEN > value is really set as a power of two, eg.: > > #if (LOG_BUF_LEN & LOG_BUF_MASK) > #error CONFIG_PRINTK_BUF_LEN must be a power of two > #endif I couldn't figure out how to do it in

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: IMO, it would be nice to add a test here whether the CONFIG_PRINTK_BUF_LEN value is really set as a power of two, eg.: #if (LOG_BUF_LEN LOG_BUF_MASK) #error CONFIG_PRINTK_BUF_LEN must be a power of two #endif I couldn't figure out how to do it in the

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: Since we expect to get errata docs very soon Im not that worried. As an implementation I'd rather a module option of 'ignore_blacklist' or similar so that it is runtime This seamed to work here. -Thomas diff -u --new-file --recursive

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: Looks ok to me but given the ability of the average kernel hacker to read help texts I;d rather it was a choice menu of say OK, I guess I gave too much credit :) This gives 4 options, 4K, 8K, 16K, and 32K. 4K is for the embedded guys, but they might want even less. 32K is

Config printk buffer size

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
This should allow the printk buffer to be sized during config. The default size is still 16K. It could use some checking to insure power-of-2, but CML1 doesn't have a way to do it that I see. All the architectures should be covered, and all the default files also have it. It gets added in the

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
David Brownell wrote: > > please correct me if i'm wrong i only don't want to blacklist complete > > chipset-series > > Then feel free to develop and submit a better fix. That'd > be more practical if AMD's workaround were public. As I > understand it, the bulk of the production chips have

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted due to

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > > David Brownell recently added this check to the usb-ohci driver > > since noone has gotten information from AMD for the workaround, > > which is rumored to exist, for this bug. > > > > Do any of you have contacts within AMD who might be able to > > get an explanation of the

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted due to

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: David Brownell recently added this check to the usb-ohci driver since noone has gotten information from AMD for the workaround, which is rumored to exist, for this bug. Do any of you have contacts within AMD who might be able to get an explanation of the workaround

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
David Brownell wrote: please correct me if i'm wrong i only don't want to blacklist complete chipset-series Then feel free to develop and submit a better fix. That'd be more practical if AMD's workaround were public. As I understand it, the bulk of the production chips have this

Config printk buffer size

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
This should allow the printk buffer to be sized during config. The default size is still 16K. It could use some checking to insure power-of-2, but CML1 doesn't have a way to do it that I see. All the architectures should be covered, and all the default files also have it. It gets added in the

Re: USB oops Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-03-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Peter Zaitcev wrote: > > > > 2.4.2-ac6 > > > o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev) > > > The first line of the oops is > > > > > > kernel BUG at slab.c:1398! > > > > Any other ideas to try? > > -Thomas > > I did not break it, honest! I will be looking in

Re: USB oops Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-03-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Peter Zaitcev wrote: 2.4.2-ac6 o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev) The first line of the oops is kernel BUG at slab.c:1398! Any other ideas to try? -Thomas I did not break it, honest! I will be looking in a USB mouse problem

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > which makes sense, I guess, because proc isn't a "real" filesystem. So how do I > get binfmt_misc mounted? mount it somewhere else, say, /dev/binfmt_mount instead of in /proc until the proc entry is fixed. What should creat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which makes sense, I guess, because proc isn't a "real" filesystem. So how do I get binfmt_misc mounted? mount it somewhere else, say, /dev/binfmt_mount instead of in /proc until the proc entry is fixed. What should creat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7 > > > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing? > > > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver > > >

Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Wilfried Weissmann wrote: Jakob stergaard wrote: So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7 on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing? If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver cannot be linked

Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

2001-03-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andre Hedrick wrote: > >From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today: >self-destruct if it's tampered with. The utility is enabled >with 11 layers of security defenses, all of which must be >successfully navigated to disable the system. These layers >range from a series of forced

Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

2001-03-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andre Hedrick wrote: From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today: self-destruct if it's tampered with. The utility is enabled with 11 layers of security defenses, all of which must be successfully navigated to disable the system. These layers range from a series of forced

Re: DMA on a AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Dodd
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hylke van der Schaaf wrote: > > > With kernet 2.2.18 DMA mode for my harddisks worked just fine, > > getting IDE DMA working on an AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2 is a problem. > > > > questions: > > Why is DMA disabled on revision < C4? > > How can I gat DMA working

Re: DMA on a AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Dodd
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hylke van der Schaaf wrote: With kernet 2.2.18 DMA mode for my harddisks worked just fine, getting IDE DMA working on an AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2 is a problem. questions: Why is DMA disabled on revision C4? How can I gat DMA working again? in

USB oops Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
2.4.2-ac3 was fine. These are the only USB changes I see since then. > 2.4.2-ac6 > o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev) > > 2.4.2-ac5 > o Fix busy loop in usb storage(Arjan van de Ven) > o Fix USB thread wakeup scheduling

USB oops Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
2.4.2-ac3 was fine. These are the only USB changes I see since then. 2.4.2-ac6 o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev) 2.4.2-ac5 o Fix busy loop in usb storage(Arjan van de Ven) o Fix USB thread wakeup scheduling

Re: [PATCH] use correct include dir for build tools

2001-02-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mike Castle wrote: > (libc does usually take care to be able to build against a later kernel > version than you're running on, and determine at run time what features may > or may not be there, so one could have a 2.4.2 kernel handy to build libc > against while still running a 2.2.18 kernel.

Re: [PATCH] use correct include dir for build tools

2001-02-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mike Castle wrote: (libc does usually take care to be able to build against a later kernel version than you're running on, and determine at run time what features may or may not be there, so one could have a 2.4.2 kernel handy to build libc against while still running a 2.2.18 kernel.

Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: > > Robert Read wrote: > > > > Ok, here is a simple patch to add a config option, I'm compiling it > > now, so it's not tested yet. One question: what is the best way to > > force this option to be a power of 2? > > Why not just make t

Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Robert Read wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:37:16PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > Robert Read wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:08AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > > > > > > > > Has anyone tried 128K buffer size in kernel/pr

Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Robert Read wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:08AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried 128K buffer size in kernel/printk.c > > and still have the kernel boot (without > > hard to notice memory corruption problems and other subtle bugs)? > > Any hints and tips will be

Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Robert Read wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:08AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: Has anyone tried 128K buffer size in kernel/printk.c and still have the kernel boot (without hard to notice memory corruption problems and other subtle bugs)? Any hints and tips will be appreciated. I

Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Robert Read wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:37:16PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: Robert Read wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:08AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: Has anyone tried 128K buffer size in kernel/printk.c and still have the kernel boot (without hard to notice

Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: Robert Read wrote: Ok, here is a simple patch to add a config option, I'm compiling it now, so it's not tested yet. One question: what is the best way to force this option to be a power of 2? Why not just make the config option in Kbytes. and do: #define

2.4.1-ac14 won't boot

2001-02-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
2.4.1-ac8 worked great, 2.4.1-ac13 and ac14 oops in IDE initialization. All 3 have ide.2.4.1-p8.all.01172001.patch applied too. I'll try it without the ide patch today. -Thomas ---kernel messages--- Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system

2.4.1-ac14 won't boot

2001-02-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
2.4.1-ac8 worked great, 2.4.1-ac13 and ac14 oops in IDE initialization. All 3 have ide.2.4.1-p8.all.01172001.patch applied too. I'll try it without the ide patch today. -Thomas ---kernel messages--- Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using > kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: Hey guys, I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some number

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-08 Thread Thomas Dodd
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Jeremy M. Dolan] > > Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile > > Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached. > > It wouldn't do any good. Many months ago, Ted Ts'o pleaded with > Richard Gooch (devfs author, from

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-08 Thread Thomas Dodd
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Jeremy M. Dolan] Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached. It wouldn't do any good. Many months ago, Ted Ts'o pleaded with Richard Gooch (devfs author, from Australia)

Re: need help raid and 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread Thomas Dodd
david wrote: > > hi i am moving from 2.2.18 to 2.4.0 i have a ide raid set but can not > get it to run under 2.4.0 > i user mdadd / mdrun to config it. in raid-tools 0.42 but it dose not > come up under 2.4.0 it just says unknow devices /dev/hda3 & /dev/hdc3 > but thay are thear and when i try

Re: need help raid and 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread Thomas Dodd
david wrote: hi i am moving from 2.2.18 to 2.4.0 i have a ide raid set but can not get it to run under 2.4.0 i user mdadd / mdrun to config it. in raid-tools 0.42 but it dose not come up under 2.4.0 it just says unknow devices /dev/hda3 /dev/hdc3 but thay are thear and when i try to

Re: 2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:55:08PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > x() > > > { > > > > > > switch (1) { > > > case 0: > > > case 1: > > > case 2: > > > case 3: > > > ; > > > } > > > } >

Re: 2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:55:08PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: x() { switch (1) { case 0: case 1: case 2: case 3: ; } } Why am I required to put a `;' only

Re: hdparm settings: Can they be permanent?

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Harald Welte wrote: > > >Some distributions already have the hdparm initscript. > > I'm not sure about that one for RH.. I use my own script, but > there might be one now.. rc.sysinit looks at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in pinstripe and guinness.

Re: hdparm settings: Can they be permanent?

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Harald Welte wrote: Some distributions already have the hdparm initscript. I'm not sure about that one for RH.. I use my own script, but there might be one now.. rc.sysinit looks at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in pinstripe and guinness.