[9fans] Unable to find South Bridge

2009-09-15 Thread Akshat Kumar
I have an Intel P55C MMX (233 MHz), with the same problem as that given here: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/02/858 However, I'm trying to boot off the Plan 9 CD, and don't currently have a way of compiling a kernel with the suggested changes (or booting from it). (Also, I think those changes are p

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2009-09-15 Thread erik quanstrom
Suject: 82583 support i put a new version of 82563 in my contrib area. it adds support for 82583 and ich9 integrated mac. more interestingly, it uses one block pool per interface, is intended to reduce ilock contention. in modest aoe tests, system time was reduced 20% when using 2 interfaces for

[9fans] c compiler size bug fix

2009-09-15 Thread erik quanstrom
unfortunately i let this one fester until it cost us some time. this problem has cropped up again http://9fans.net/archive/2009/07/305 (it appears that my worry about expandable arrays was unfounded.) the problem is that the size of an undefined struct as the last element of a struct is not count

[9fans] stopgap for vlong bug

2009-09-15 Thread erik quanstrom
reported here http://9fans.net/narchive/2009/08/1042 i haven't had much time to even look at this problem. this will at least abort the compile, rather than miscompile. so it's marginally better than nothing. the warning is just documentation of the problem. i recompiled everything with this p