Olivier == Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Olivier A typo prevents the tigon 1 firmware to be included when
Olivier tigon 1 support is active. Null pointer dereference in
Olivier ace_load_firmware- ace_copy as a result.
Olivier Patch trivial and even tested (aka, the module loads
Olivier == Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Olivier On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:59:24PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
Thanks, I'll put that in the next driver release as well.
Olivier Good. The only bad thing is that even with this fix, the
Olivier card doesn't work (recieves
Abramo == Abramo Bagnara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Abramo David S. Miller wrote:
One final point, I want to reiterate that I believe:
foo = readl(regs-bar);
is perfectly legal and should not be discouraged and in particular,
not made painful to do.
Abramo I disagree: regs it's not a
Eric == Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric I've said before on these lists that one of the purposes of
Eric CML2's single-apex tree design is to move the configuration
Eric dialog away from low-level platform- specific questions towards
Eric higher-level questions about policy or
Bohdan == Bohdan Vlasyuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bohdan Does anybody know any nice resource for beginners to try to
Bohdan write some device drivers/other stuff ?
You can try my 'Linux Kernel Programming' slide set that I have used
for my tutorials on various conferences. The latest version
Eric == Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric The first candidates I found were questions associated with
Eric built-in SCSI and Ethernet on Macintoshes, on the Sun 3 and
Eric Sun3x, and with built-in facilities on the MVME147 single-board
Eric computer. So I wrote derivations that
Eric == Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Eric # These were separate questions in CML1 derive MAC_SCC from MAC
Eric SERIAL derive MAC_SCSI from MAC SCSI derive SUN3_SCSI from
Eric (SUN3 | SUN3X) SCSI
As Alan already pointed out thats assumption
Ben == Ben Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben Mike Castle wrote:
People who are going to be savvy enough to install a development
2.5.* kernel that is defining a new configuration utility are going
to be savvy enough to install python.
Ben Not only that, but Alan said that somebody is
John == John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Jes Sorensen wrote:
Telling them to install an updated gcc for kernel compilation is a
necessary evil, which can easily be done without disturbing the
rest of the system. Updating the system's python installation is
not a reasonable request
Eric == Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For a start, so far there has been no reason whatsoever to change
the format of definitions.
Eric The judgment of the kbuild team is unanimous that you are
Eric mistaken on this. That's the five people
"Ingo" == Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ingo On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Dan Maas wrote:
There are various other tricks that can be done to speed up network
servers, like passing files directly from the buffer cache to the
network card. This one is currently frowned upon by the Linux
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to
Jeff resource constraints and short term schedules, the Open Source
Jeff NDS and Open Source NTFS File System projects are being
Jeff withdrawn from the Linux Initiative. These
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff KDB is putrid. Can it debug double faults? NO. Can it debug
Jeff complex register and numeric evaluation statements like IF ((EAX
Jeff == 1) [ESP-4] == 0x3000)? NO. Can it debug nested task gate
Jeff exceptions? NO. Can it debug SMP
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[since you like to forward things after sending me a private email, I'll
do the same].
Jeff I wrote the SMP ODI networking layer in NetWare that used today by
Jeff over 90,000,000 NetWare users. I also wrote the SMP LLC8022
Jeff Stack, the SMP
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff **ALL** Netware network drivers support a scatter/gather
Jeff proramming interface, whether the hardware does or not. In
Jeff NetWare, the drivers get passed a fragment list in what's called
Jeff an ECB (Event Control Block). It's the
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote:
I'd love to see a netware box sustain 110MB/sec (MB as in mega
byte) memory to memory in two TCP streams between dual 400MHz P2
boxes.
Jeff What the hell does a NUMA interconnect have to do with
Jeff
"Richard" == Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Andrew Morton writes:
All of them except the 3c905 provide hardware Rx and Tx
checksumming of IP, TCP and UDP headers. No 64 bit addressing
support.
Richard And does the driver support it? Has anyone benchmarked the
Richard
"Ingo" == Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ingo On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
I did the same for fragment RX some months ago (simple fragment
lists that were copy-checksummed to user space). Overall it is
probably better to use a kiovec, because that can be more easily
used in
"Jamie" == Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jamie Nice point! Only valid for TCP UDP though.
Jamie When people want _real_ low latency, they don't use TCP or UDP,
Jamie and they certainly don't put data checksums at the start. They
Jamie still aim for zero copies. That pass, even
"Richard" == Richard Gooch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard I thought you said some of the GigE drivers supported this?
Richard Or were you just saying that the GigE cards were some of the
Richard few which supported scatter/gather DMA and IP checksumming?
The latter.
Jes
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"Ricky" == Ricky Beam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ricky On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
Much more of a reason to get them to clean up their act!
Ricky Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their
Ricky act" when their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff Only Linux makes the lights flash with IPX RIP/SAP. NetWare
Jeff uses NLSP routing and has since 1993 for IPX/SPX. I agree if
Jeff someone is running NetWare 3 or NetWare 4.1 or earlier there's a
Jeff lot of RIP/SAP traffic, but not the
"Frank" == Frank Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frank Hello all, Anyone wishing to re-audit the drivers/block and
Frank drivers/char for locking issues and submit their patches to me
Frank directly, feel free. I think if more people comb through the
Frank code than myself, patches I missed
"Jeff" == Jeff V Merkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for
Jeff internet). A full blown NCP server in-kernel that's toughtly
Jeff coupled to the page cache running over IPX would make flames
Jeff shoot out of the back of a Linux server, and
!
*/
#ifndef PCI_DEVICE_ID_FARALLON_PN9000SX
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_FARALLON_PN9000SX0x1a
@@ -389,7 +399,7 @@
static int dis_pci_mem_inval[ACE_MAX_MOD_PARMS] = {1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1};
static const char __initdata *version =
- "acenic.c: v0.44 05/11/2000 Jes Sorensen, [
"Jamie" == Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jamie According to group legend here (I wasn't around but will repeat
Jamie what I was told), we spent about 1 year trying to get docs on
Jamie Intel's i960 based gigabit card so we could program it.
Jamie Eventually we gave up and moved to
"Keith" == Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Keith On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 21:49:44 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox
Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use a different gcc. There are reasons people shipping 2.96 for
intel x86 also include egcs. The kernel isnt ready for 2.96
Keith Out of curiousity, which
"Horst" == Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Horst "Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...]
That would be the "H=F8jland" in your .sig, right? No problem, '='
is a standard character.
My MUA has been RFC-compliant since before this "MIME" thing
existed, so I can see the
"Todd" == Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jes Sorensen wrote: It took me a little while in the
beginning to convince Alteon to open up and provide docs, but
since they saw the light they have been extremely helpful and
went much further in their openness than I had eve
"David" == David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David C program instructions are in ASCII, data certainly isn't
David restricted to that. If you or your M*A can't or won't deal
David with anything but plain text, then filter it. Plain text is
David clearly in the minority of emails throughout
@@
static int dis_pci_mem_inval[ACE_MAX_MOD_PARMS] = {1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1};
static const char __initdata *version =
- "acenic.c: v0.44 05/11/2000 Jes Sorensen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n"
+ "acenic.c: v0.47 09/18/2000 Jes Sorensen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n"
"
"aris" == aris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
aris hi, misc fixes on eepro driver, please apply
aris @@ -212,6 +214,12 @@
aris version of the 82595 chip. */
aris int stepping;
aris spinlock_t lock; /* Serializing lock */
aris + unsigned rcv_ram;
"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
aris + unsigned xmt_lower_limit_reg; + unsigned xmt_upper_limit_reg;
aris + unsigned eeprom_reg; };
Please don't use unsigned without specifying the size, use either
unsigned int or unsigned long.
Alan unsigned is always explicitly integer.
And
"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan unsigned is always explicitly integer.
And recent gcc's complain over it.
Alan So file a gcc bug ?
Ok, I got it now - I confused 'unsigned foo' with 'static foo' the
latter being moaned about.
Sorry about the confusion.
Jes
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"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan unsigned is always explicitly integer.
And recent gcc's complain over it.
Alan So file a gcc bug ?
Hmmm and it doesn't seem to moan over it anymore, highly embarrassing
;-( Sorry Aris.
I remember Andreas changed some of these in I think the
"Timur" == Timur Tabi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Timur I haven't tried C++ in Linux drivers myself, but I assume it
Timur can't be any more difficult than what I had to do for OS/2.
Timur Five years ago (imagine that - OS/2 is years ahead of Linux in
Timur this regard), I hacked up a method for
"Timur" == Timur Tabi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Timur ** Reply to message from Horst von Brand
Timur [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:50:12 -0400
A couple of points:
- The kernel is C, mixing in C++ for no *real* good reason is just
making it harder to work on.
Timur True, but
"George" == George France [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
George Eric Mouw from the LART group will be posting the whole thing
George in a little while.
Is there a reason why this obviously personal fight between you and
Russell needs to be mediated/judged by linux-kernel?
Jes
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"Olivier" == Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Olivier I compiled in the support for the 3c985, but, somehow, the
Olivier kernel does not seem to see the card.
Olivier Dual p3, asus p2b-d motherboard, test9pre7+reiserfs.
Are you sure the drivers/net/acenic.o file got compiled and
"Andrew" == Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andrew The module_init() and module_exit() are inside `#ifdef
Andrew MODULE'. So if the driver is statically linked it doesn't
Andrew register any initcalls. It won't do anything.
ARGH I keep getting those ones wrong ;-(
Thanks
Jes
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"Carsten" == Carsten Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Carsten Hi, i don't want to start discussing the pros and cons of
Carsten using C++ in kernel development. BUT: why do we blame people
Carsten if they want to?
This is already covered in the 200 previous discussions about this -
basically
"jamal" == jamal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jamal The FF code of the tulip does have skb recycling code. And i
jamal belive Jes' acenic code does or did at some point. Robert
jamal Olson and I were thinking of taking out that code out of the
jamal tulip for reasons such as you talk about (and
"Marc" == Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marc On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 04:26:38PM +0100, Alan Cox
Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which still makes it an broken, experimental, unreleased and
unofficial compiler, with all the consequences I said.
And didnt you write something called
"Harald" == Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harald It seems that you are ignoring other major distros (Slackware,
Harald Suse, Debian, etc.) as well as commercial software. By
Harald providing an incompatible binary interface RedHat splits the
Harald Linux community into 2 parts. I am
"Ingo" == Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ingo On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The experiment showed the following prefetching could reduce 20-30%
of csum_partial_copy_generic() execution time.
Ingo Please test it and post the numbers. csum_partial_copy_generic()
Ingo
"David" == David S Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 19:01:18 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
o Acenic 0.45 fixes (Chip Salzenberg)
David This adds a huge comment claiming to fix some race condition,
David but no actual code is changed. How can this
"Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andrea On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Andrea if you do:
Andrea request_irq(my_irq_handler,... 0, ...)
Andrea then my_irq_handler will be recalled with irq enabled.
Which shouldn't matter as the irq
"Ralf" == Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ralf On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:53:40AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
(By the way, have you checked that replacing get_sectorsize by an
empty routine, and specifying a -b option, works well?)
(Do you know which disks have unusual sector
"Dwayne" == Dwayne C Litzenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dwayne First of all, I'd like to say that I'm not writing this to
Dwayne piss anyone off. It's not a flame, a troll, or a personal
Dwayne attack on anyone. I my writing will aid in the improvement of
Dwayne Linux. Please read this
"Jeff" == Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff 1) Rx Skb recycling. It would be nice to have skbs returned to
Jeff the driver after the net core is done with them, rather than
Jeff have netif_rx free the skb. Many drivers pre-allocate a number
Jeff of maximum-sized skbs into which the
"Noah" == Noah Romer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Noah In my experience, Tx interrupt mitigation is of little
Noah benefit. I actually saw a performance increase of ~20% when I
Noah turned off Tx interrupt mitigation in my driver (could have been
Noah poor implementation on my part).
You need to
"Manfred" == Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manfred Mark Hemment wrote:
As no one uses the feature it could well be broken, but is that a
reason to change its meaning?
Manfred Some hardware drivers use HW_CACHEALIGN and assume certain
Manfred byte alignments, and arm needs 1024
"Jeff" == Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff People from time to time point out a wart in ethernet
Jeff initialization: The net_device is allocated and registered to
Jeff the system in init_etherdev, which is usually one of the first
Jeff things an ethernet driver probe function does.
"Manfred" == Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manfred First of all HW_CACHEALIGN aligns to the L1 cache, not
Manfred SMP_CACHE_BYTES. Additionally you sometimes need a
Manfred guaranteed alignment for other problems, afaik ARM needs 1024
Manfred bytes for some structures due to cpu
"Werner" == Werner Almesberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Werner Jeff Garzik wrote:
3) Slabbier packet allocation.
Werner Hmm, this may actually be worse during bursts: if you burst
Werner exceeds the preallocated size, you have to perform more
Werner expensive/slower operations (e.g. running
"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think this behaviour can be controlled with tpctl for the
Thinkpads and possibly with the Toshiba utils on Toshibas...
Alan If tpctl can do it and we know how it does it then that may be
Alan sufficient since the kernel init code can use DMI to
"Steven" == Steven Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steven I noticed that for 2.4.0-test11 there is no help for
Steven CONFIG_TOSHIBA, although there is for 2.2.17.
Steven The following patch borrows the words for CONFIG_TOSHIBA from
Steven the 2.2.17 Documentation/Configure.help, dropping an
"Robert" == rml [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert i dont want to revisit the flame fest (at all, please) but it
Robert seems i have been using a kernel that successfully compiled
Robert under RedHat 7's gcc snapshot (2.96). i normally use
Robert gcc-2.91.66 for everything (mv kgcc gcc) but
"Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tigran Hi, Some processes get stuck in page fault handler for ages
Tigran (like for 10 minutes!). The machine still has plenty (3.5G) of
Tigran free high memory but zero (2216K) of free low memory.
Including info on the kernel version would
"Miles" == Miles Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Miles I attempted to reply to a message from Alan and got the
Miles following response.
No it isn't, Alan uses ORBS and you are obviously black listed there
(www.orbs.org).
This one seems to come up every now and then, and always turns into a
"Rogier" == Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rogier Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
First, I'd like to make a couple points about driver style that I'm
trying to move towards with the ATM drivers. You're free to take
them or leave them, but I want to eventually move the tree in this
"Keith" == Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Keith On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:36:55 -0700, "Jeff V. Merkey"
Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith,
Please consider the attached patch for inclusion in all future
versions of the modutils depmod program for compatiblity with
RedHat and RedHat
"Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ulrich Hello,
Ulrich since test11, the NFS code uses the set_bit and related
Ulrich routines to manipulate the wb_flags member of the nfs_page
Ulrich struct (nfs_page.h). Unfortunately, wb_flags has still data
Ulrich type 'int'.
Ulrich
"Daryll" == Daryll Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daryll On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 09:34:59PM -0500, David Feuer wrote:
For what it's worth, I absolutely agree with this. I have the same
impression when I just see the word "dangerous".
Daryll Why not call a spade a spade and label it
"Dave" == davej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dave Hi, I noticed a lot of drivers are setting the
Dave PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE themselves, some to
Dave L1_CACHE_BYTES/sizeof(u32), others to arbitrary values (4, 8,
Dave 16).
Dave Then I spotted that we have a routine in the PCI subsystem
Dave
"Dave" == davej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dave On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
Here are a few more:
net/acenic.c: pci_write_config_byte(ap-pdev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE,
Dave Acenic is at least setting it to the correct values, not
Dave hardcoding it.
Nod, it's important that it is
"Albert" == Albert D Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bigmem is 'last resort' stuff. I'd much rather it is as now a
seperate allocator so you actually have to sit and think and decide
to give up on kmalloc/vmalloc/better algorithms and only use it
when the hardware sucks
Albert It isn't
"David" == David S Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David We _had_ to change some drivers to show how to support this new
David SKB api for transmit sg+csum support. If you can think of a
David way for us to effectively do this work without changing at
David least a few drivers as examples
"David" == David S Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David I've put a patch up for testing on the kernel.org mirrors:
David /pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.0-1.diff.gz
David It provides a framework for zerocopy transmits and delayed
David receive fragment coalescing. TUX-1.01 uses
"Tim" == Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tim Alan Cox wrote:
1. There are architectures where some other compiler may do
better optimizations than gcc. I will cite some examples here, no
need to argue
I think we only care about this when they become free software.
Tim This may be
Ethernet card
* and other Tigon based cards.
*
- * Copyright 1998-2000 by Jes Sorensen, [EMAIL PROTECTED].
+ * Copyright 1998-2000 by Jes Sorensen, [EMAIL PROTECTED].
*
* Thanks to Alteon and 3Com for providing hardware and documentation
* enabling me to write this driver.
@@ -39,6
Tue Nov 14 17:45:26 2000
+++ drivers/net/acenic.cMon Nov 13 19:26:23 2000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
* acenic.c: Linux driver for the Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet card
* and other Tigon based cards.
*
- * Copyright 1998-2000 by Jes Sorensen, [EMAIL PROTECTED].
+ * Copyright 1998-2
"dalecki" == dalecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few questions after scanning through your patch, it's likely I
missed something but I am kind acurious.
dalecki The attached patch does the following: 1. Merge the most
dalecki current version (aka: 1.08) of the MegaRAID driver from AMI
dalecki
"Charles" == Charles Turner, Ph D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Charles It had been running Windows 2000 "Professional". Several
Charles months ago, he purchased Red Hat "DELUXE" version 6.2. He was
Charles unable to install it. I convinced him that installation was
Charles easy.
Charles I was
"Jeff" == Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff Jes Sorensen wrote:
Hmmm, I was wondering if could come up with a pretty way to do this
on 32 bit boxes that wants to enable highmem DMA. Right now
pci_set_dma_mask() wants a dma_addr_t which means you have to do
#ifdef CONF
"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Introducing a new function that takes bit flags as arguments might
be better?
Alan pci_set_dma_mask_bits() ? So you could do
Alan pci_set_dma_mask_bits(pdev, 64);
Alan We want everything to go through pci_set_dma_mask... type
Alan functions
by the list moderator. We find
this completely unacceptable just as it is hindering development that
a development mailing list is being so mismoderated.
Please welcome the new list and join in on the development and
discussions.
Sincerly,
Jens Axboe
Arjan van de Ven
Martin Petersen
Rik van Riel
Jes
"" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is unfortunate that this could not have been resolved in a more
mature manner. Saying "I don't like the way somebody is doing
something. I won't bother to talk to them about it, I'll just
flame them and try to undermine their work." is not
"" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm...i guess there is a communication issue here. It sounds like
the message that our ML server was sending was misleading. We were
not rejecting mail because of content. The ML server was rejecting
it because the address was not subscribed. Our
"AJ" == AJ Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AJ On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:17:29PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
This was tried, trust me. We didn't create this list because
someone forgot to respond to a single posting. As we wrote in the
announcement there has been too many incidents
"Jeff" == Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
http://www.kernel.org/ has a list of architecture websites. Also
the CREDITS / MAINTAINERS files tend to list the people who are
involved.
Jeff Except it's restricted to processor ports, which would leave you
Jeff
"Daniel" == Daniel Dorau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Daniel Hello, my Inspiron 8000 (BIOS A09) notebook running 2.4.3 does
Daniel not resume after suspending. I have APM compiled in with the
Daniel following options:
Daniel - Enable PM at boot time - Make CPU Idle calls whe ide -
Daniel Enable
"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan The recommended compilers for non x86 are different too - eg you
Alan need 2.96 gcc for IA64, you need 2.95 not egcs for mips and so
Alan on.
In principle you just need 2.7.2.3 for m68k, but someone decided to
raise the bar for all
"Eric" == Eric S Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Eric Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I actually prefer MAINTAINERS because it breaks things down by area
and reflects the actual maintainership and areas covered. Something
that per file does not
Eric Instead of arguing this point, I will
"Roman" == Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Roman Hi, Jes Sorensen wrote:
In principle you just need 2.7.2.3 for m68k, but someone decided to
raise the bar for all architectures by putting a check in a common
header file.
Roman IIRC 2.7.2.3 has problems with labeled in
Matthew == Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matthew Something which came up in one of the hallway discussions at
Matthew the kernelsummit was that a lot of the architecture
Matthew maintainers would find it more convenient if the
Matthew arch-specific header files were moved from
Felix == Felix von Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Felix I have been told that I should send a diff rather than complain
Felix and expect others to make a diff. Oops ,)
Felix So attached is a diff.
A diff against glibc sent to the glibc list would be a lot more
useful.
Felix Oh boy oh boy
Alan == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But that foregoes the point that the code is far more complex and
harder to make 'obviously correct', a concept that *does* translate
well to userspace.
Alan There I disagree. Threads introduce parallelism that the
Alan majority of user space
Ho == Ho Chak Hung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ho Hi, I got the error __alloc_pages: 4-order allocation failed in a
Ho module that uses and frees a lot of pages. Basically, I am trying
Ho implement a page cache for the module. First, I keep allocating
Ho pages using page_cache_alloc() until it
"Manfred" == Manfred Spraul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manfred Ion Badulescu wrote:
+#if defined(__ia64__) || defined(__alpha__) +#define
PKT_SHOULD_COPY(pkt_len) 1 +#else +#define
PKT_SHOULD_COPY(pkt_len) (pkt_len rx_copybreak) +#endif
[snip]
It's not *required* per se, as
"Jeff" == Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff Donald Becker wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: * IA64 support (Jes) Oh,
and this is completely bogus. This isn't a fix, it's a hack that
covers up the real problem.
The align-copy should *never* be required because the
"Donald" == Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Donald On 9 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote:
The ia64 kernel has gotten mis aligned load support, but it's slow
as a dog so we really want to copy the packet every time anyway
when the header is not aligned. If people send out 802
"Ion" == Ion Badulescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ion On 9 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote:
Inefficient, my patch will make the unused code path disappear
during compilation, what you suggest results in an extra branch and
unused code.
Ion Yes, but I'd rather let people turn off
"Grard" == Grard Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Grard On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
DMA to main memory normally invalidates those lines in the CPU
cache rather than the cache snooping and updating its view of them.
Grard In PCI, it is the Memory Write and Invalidate PCI transaction
"Petr" == Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Petr On 14 Feb 01 at 16:35, Jes Sorensen wrote:
What else is sending out 802.3 frames these days? I really don't
care about IPX when it comes to performance.
I am just advocating that we optimize for the common case which is
"David" == David S Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David I think this is an Acenic specific issue. The second processor
David on the Acenic board is only there to work around bugs in their
David DMA controller.
It wasn't put there for that reason. It was intended for better work
;-)
Jes
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"Jeff" == Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Werner Almesberger wrote:
Now what's at stake ? Look at the Windows world. Also there,
companies could release their drivers as Open Source. Quick, how
many do this ? Almost none. So, given the choice, most companies
"Alan" == Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
after upgrading to 2.2.19pre9 (+ 2 NFS-patches, IPv6 enabled) idle
connections tend to shut down without a visible reason:
Alan Yes I've seen this too. It seems that the tcp changes broke the
Alan keepalive handling somewhere when I leave a non
"Markus" == Markus Germeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Markus Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only see this for connections with incoming traffic where I don't
send something out (like irc), whereas unused ssh connections seem
to survive fine.
Markus Just for the record:
"Markus" == Markus Germeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Markus Tell me if I can provide you with further data to nail down
Markus this bug.
Alan forwarded a patch to me from DaveM which fixed it for me.
Markus Jes: I thought about your information that ssh connections do
Markus not show this
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