Re: emacs23.3 issues and hurd signals

2011-05-09 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 01:54 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The simplest backtrace to analyze would probably be in the "illegal > instruction" case. Also, > > thread apply all info register > > would be helpful too :) Pasted in below, good luck! Thread 5 (Thread 21895.5): eax0x100

Re: Account request

2011-05-09 Thread Barry deFreese
On 5/9/2011 1:09 PM, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hallo Steven! > > On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:59:27 -0400, seth seth wrote: >> Thanks for creating the account but unable to login, is >> flubber.bddebian.comdown? > > His whole network is unreachable at the moment. I've already informed > Barry; he's goi

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Braun, le Mon 09 May 2011 13:33:37 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:27:32PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > I'd suggest using natural_t (or unsigned long) too. But then, it can't > > > be used to address >4 GiB physical memory. Consider expressing physical > > > memory in p

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Braun, le Mon 09 May 2011 10:55:36 +0200, a écrit : > This RPC lacks a few additional constraints like boundaries, alignment > and maybe phase. What do you mean by "phase"? Samuel

Re: emacs23.3 issues and hurd signals

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Sun 08 May 2011 11:12:25 +0200, a écrit : > On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 01:54 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Thu 05 May 2011 19:11:10 +0200, a écrit : > > > Backtraces are attached! > > > > Could you also run disassemble, so we get the corresponding assembly > >

Re: Race problem in Mach/Hurd?

2011-05-09 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 19:08 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:49 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:43 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Svante Signell, le Mon 09 May 2011 18:33:14 +0200, a écrit : > > > > Anyway, adding a print statement at eglibc-2.1

Re: Race problem in Mach/Hurd?

2011-05-09 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:49 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:43 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Mon 09 May 2011 18:33:14 +0200, a écrit : > > > Anyway, adding a print statement at eglibc-2.11.2/mach/msgserver.c > > > resolved the hang in the configuration

Re: Account request

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo Steven! On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:59:27 -0400, seth seth wrote: > Thanks for creating the account but unable to login, is > flubber.bddebian.comdown? His whole network is unreachable at the moment. I've already informed Barry; he's going to have a look. Grüße, Thomas pgpzYuP8LdDH5.pgp De

Re: [scdbac...@gmx.net: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thanks to all for your patience with my newbieness. me: > > So it looks as if we have to stop here until a better skilled person > > appears who is interested in enabling burner drive operation. Samuel Thibault: > I'll let it to anybody who has time for this. After pondering and code reading

Re: Race problem in Mach/Hurd?

2011-05-09 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:43 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Mon 09 May 2011 18:33:14 +0200, a écrit : > > Anyway, adding a print statement at eglibc-2.11.2/mach/msgserver.c > > resolved the hang in the configuration of ghc6-6.10.1 > > +dfsg1/libraries/random :-) > > Uh! Did you

Re: Race problem in Mach/Hurd?

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Mon 09 May 2011 18:33:14 +0200, a écrit : > Anyway, adding a print statement at eglibc-2.11.2/mach/msgserver.c > resolved the hang in the configuration of ghc6-6.10.1 > +dfsg1/libraries/random :-) Uh! Did you try to let the remainder of the build complete? > Single stepping in

Race problem in Mach/Hurd?

2011-05-09 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, Continuing the struggle with the ghc and ruby build problems I stumbled into finding two kernel (signal) threads in addition to the main (user) thread. According to Neal on IRC there shouldn't be more than one kernel thread running. This could be due to some race condition (don't know yet wher

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:27:32PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > I'd suggest using natural_t (or unsigned long) too. But then, it can't > > be used to address >4 GiB physical memory. Consider expressing physical > > memory in page frame numbers. > > Good idea! But: what about differently size

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 9 May 2011 13:19:22 +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:17:51PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Hmm, I guess we don't have anything that is better than using > > > vm_address_t for physical addresses? At least not in > > > include/mach/std_types.h, i386/in

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:17:51 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Thomas Schwinge, le Mon 09 May 2011 11:15:15 +0200, a écrit : > > > The patches however add a few > > > kernel RPCs, which we should probably agree on first, at the minimum > > > that their existence makes sense, so we can reserv

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:17:51PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hmm, I guess we don't have anything that is better than using > > vm_address_t for physical addresses? At least not in > > include/mach/std_types.h, i386/include/mach/i386/vm_types.h. Should we? > > (phys_address_t based on natu

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Mon 09 May 2011 11:15:15 +0200, a écrit : > > The patches however add a few > > kernel RPCs, which we should probably agree on first, at the minimum > > that their existence makes sense, so we can reserve slots in upstream > > gnumach. Basically, it's about allocating physicall

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 9 May 2011 00:07:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I've started having a look at Zheng Da's user-level driver integration. > I've cleaned his tree a bit, and now considering adding patches to > the debian packages for wider testing. Great! I'm not the most knowledgeable person

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:07:16AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I've started having a look at Zheng Da's user-level driver integration. > I've cleaned his tree a bit, and now considering adding patches to > the debian packages for wider testing. The patches however add a few > kernel RPCs, whic