Re: [osol-discuss] kmdb/OBP question

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Simmons
[ forgot to reply-to-all ] You're pretty much doomed -- sorry. Your choices are: 1. boot it headless, and use whatever displays the console to record what you're seeing. 2. copy it down by hand ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: XVR-500

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Simmons
Ua == UNIX admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No SPARC graphics card drivers are released under OpenSolaris. Ua Why? My guess is that the implementation of the drivers exposes more of the card implementation and the secret sauce contained therein than the graphics card people would like.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew Simmons
PJ == Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PJ On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Bryan Cantrill wrote: but we know from painful experience that acts of cowardice like /usr/proc/bin create more problems than they solve. PJ Curious, what problems other than $PATH would those be? Nobody

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew Simmons
PJ == Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PJ On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Matthew Simmons wrote: Nobody finds them, because they're out of the way. It's also an annoyance for administrators, because they have to add yet another directory to their PATH. Much better

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone none really means nothing running at all really

2005-11-16 Thread Matthew Simmons
DJM == Darren J Moffat Darren writes: DJM I also tend to have /var/core and /var/crash separate as well but DJM thats because I don't actually want live upgrade to copy the core and DJM crash files over to the new boot environment, because they aren't DJM relevant. DJM

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone none really means nothing running at all really

2005-11-16 Thread Matthew Simmons
DJM == Darren J Moffat Darren writes: DJM I use to do that but if using dumpadm and coreadm to actually put them DJM else where seemed like a better solution to me - mainly because they DJM have the functionality built in so why not use it. On the other hand, /var/crash is a

Re: [osol-discuss] milestone none really means nothing running at all really

2005-11-16 Thread Matthew Simmons
DJM == Darren J Moffat Darren writes: DJM Which brings me to very minor grip about the default config of DJM Solaris, it is /var/crash/hostname at the first time you booted DJM which when using DHCP in the default Solaris config can change. Sure DJM I can find out what it is

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Matthew Simmons
I don't see the problem with using the code name for a project as the community name, knowing that later on you may need to rename the community when marketing invents a new name for it. Try as we might, we're never going to guess that name in advance. Matt -- Matt Simmons - [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: New Community Request

2005-11-08 Thread Matthew Simmons
SH == Stephen Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SH As as additional comment, marketing names are associated with SH distributions and not the source tree shared across the community. So are we going to maintain a separate mapping somewhere so that users coming to the OpenSolaris pages

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] Announcement: Codereview Hosting now Available

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Simmons
DR == Dean Roehrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DR On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:40:17PM -0700, Dan Price wrote: Hi Everyone, Codereview is a pillar of quality software development; the OpenSolaris project does a good job of intensively reviewing changes today, but our

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] Announcement: Codereview Hosting now Available

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Simmons
DR == Dean Roehrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Webrev is a tool which makes a web page which includes all types of diffs such as unified, context as well as side-by-side diffs with collapsable context. DR Does this allow the reviewer to extract the changes in valid unified-,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: [osol-code] Announcement: Codereview Hosting now Available

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Simmons
DBP == Daniel B Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. Alternate arrangements would need to be made in that case to get the DBP (Sorry for the awful formatting-- the mailing lists are eating posts DBP on me again, so I never got this in email). DBP Matt-- nothing would

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-26 Thread Matthew Simmons
JS == Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JS What do you do when somebody make a machine that can hold more than 512 JS CPU chips? We divide the CPUID space up another way. Someone pointed out that the n and n + 512 approach only applies to serengeti and (I think) starcat.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris on Fujitsu gear

2005-08-24 Thread Matthew Simmons
FS == Felix Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FS Will Fujitsu join the OpenSolaris project some day? OpenSolaris does FS not even boot on these machines right now :-( Many (most?) FJSV machines are sun4us, rather than sun4u. As one might expect, they have their own subtree under

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How would the ARC process look at this discussion of KSH 88-vs-93?

2005-08-02 Thread Matthew Simmons
JL == James Lick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JL Move current ksh to ksh88, add ksh93, and make ksh a link to ksh88. JL Include a script to change the link to/from ksh88 or ksh93 so people JL can configure the default to taste easily. In a future release the JL link would point to