Re: New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Christopher Masto wrote: > My machine panicked today for the first time since switching to the > new ATA drivers, and I noticed that I no longer have crash dumps. > Is this something that is expected to be put back in soon? > > I know Søren's a busy guy, and I'm glad we have the results o

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT GENERIC

1999-04-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
> > P.S.: USBDI as in, our version of it. The people from the consortium > kicked us out. Can you elaborate on the reason that USBDI does not FreeBSD to be involved with the consortium? Tnks P.S.: Just got a 3 COM USB modem and I am going over the USB specs right now 8) -- Amancio

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:What does this patch fix? : : Tnks! : Amancio : : Amancio Hasty : ha...@star-gate.com It mainly fixes interactions between mmap(), read(), and write() on NFS files. Many utilities ( such as the compiler/linker ) these days use a combination of the three and NFS was making

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matt, i'm going to test your patches now, I really appreciate the work :and explanations you've given as to the problem and the solution you've :devised. If anyone's gonna find a NFS bug :) : :I'm impressed with the changes you're proposing for the VM system :and was wondering if these patc

RE: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread paul
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Wemm [mailto:pe...@netplex.com.au] > Sent: 20 April 1999 21:20 > To: Doug Rabson > Cc: Takanori Watanabe; freebsd-current@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: newbus and modem(s) > > > Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > [..] > > > Now

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers

1999-04-20 Thread Mark Newton
Matthew Dillon wrote: > This patch is for CURRENT ONLY. Do not apply to -3.x unless you like > seeing computer equipment melt! Wow. I makes NFS access *that* fast?! - mark :-) Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer

Re: ATA driver for alpha (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Jordan, you said nowadays one can simply compile a kernel < 1.44Mb and > stick it on the disk kern.flp? Yep! You can even make one > 1.44MB and gzip it first (but remember to call it /kernel.gz or the loader won't be smart enough to un-gzip it). As long as the kernel is compiled with options M

new-bus, a moderate success report.

1999-04-20 Thread Matthew Jacob
To also follow the 'new-bus' success report story... I configured and built for a AMI mother board- two PCI busses... the only thing that was a gotcha was that de0 and de1 (both on separate PCI busses) got swapped in the changeover. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org wi

New ATA driver and crash dumps

1999-04-20 Thread Christopher Masto
My machine panicked today for the first time since switching to the new ATA drivers, and I noticed that I no longer have crash dumps. Is this something that is expected to be put back in soon? I know Søren's a busy guy, and I'm glad we have the results of his work. I just hope the old drivers don

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > What does this patch fix? NFS clients getting blocks of 0x00 in the cache. try to link a large object over NFS without the patches, you'll see what i mean. Matt, i'm going to test your patches now, I really appreciate the work and explanations you've

ed0: device timeout

1999-04-20 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, Maybe current is not the right one to send my problem to - but I'm not subscribed on freebsd.mobile. Recently I bought a new laptop and my ed0-pccard stopped working. This happened before the newconfig stuff came in. I first thought there were some irq-related problems, but I wasn't able to

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
What does this patch fix? Tnks! Amancio -- Amancio Hasty ha...@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
NFS patch #6 is now available for -current. This patch has been extensively tested with NFS and with FFS+softupdates and has not screwed up yet, so I'm reasonably confident that it will not scrap whole filesystems :-) http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ Please remember

Re: Newbus in UPDATING

1999-04-20 Thread Thomas Dean
From: Jose Gabriel Marcelino vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa msize 131072 on isa fb0: vga0, vga, type:VGA (5), flags:0x700ff vga0: on isa0 known problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Newbus in UPDATING

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > Now that there has been some experience with newbus, I'd like to put > together an entry for updating. So far I have the following problems: > sio pnp/pccard support broken > some (which ones?) sound drivers broken > psm0 duplicate/du

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread Nick Hibma
What about creating a second bus, isa_s, for ISA self probing? Nick On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > [..] > > > Now what I'm curious about is how to handle the nexus and isa/eisa better > > > so they don't need to explicitl

Re: ATA driver for alpha

1999-04-20 Thread Nick Hibma
Great idea. I'll be the first one to try it with the USB support... > > People could appreciate this. I for one would like to make demo floppies > > to send to companies having supplied devices for USB support to show > > their devices at work. > > So, anyone up for creating a web page generat

Newbus in UPDATING

1999-04-20 Thread Warner Losh
Now that there has been some experience with newbus, I'd like to put together an entry for updating. So far I have the following problems: sio pnp/pccard support broken some (which ones?) sound drivers broken psm0 duplicate/duplicate devices in general keyboard/mou

Re: Some questions about booting with newbus

1999-04-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: : Am I the only one where booting with -v doesn't really do any verbose : booting? : Also, as talked about with Peter, -v should report unclaimed/unmatched : devices, currently it doesn't... I've seen that it does. I have a chip made by Sony that no driv

Re: Some questions about booting with newbus

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Some questions I have pertaining the newbus stuff (and as a reminder to you > Peter, thanks for looking into it): > > Am I the only one where booting with -v doesn't really do any verbose > booting? > > Also, as talked about with Peter, -v sho

Re: Build of kernel, and make world broken on my machine

1999-04-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message Kenneth Wayne Culver writes: : ioconf.c:103: warning: `psm0_count' redefined This is quickly becoming a FAQ. Remove the second psm0 device in your config file. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > [..] > > > Now what I'm curious about is how to handle the nexus and isa/eisa better > > > so they don't need to explicitly name the children. On one hand it could > > > look at the hints tabl

Re: PCI VGA card becomes ISA

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Around Today, "Doug Rabson" wrote : > > DR> Its harmless and it should go away soon if we can reorganise syscons' vga > DR> driver slightly. > > I'm seeing this as well, but as you've said, it's harmless. > What I am "concerned" about is from sources

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: [..] > > Now what I'm curious about is how to handle the nexus and isa/eisa better > > so they don't need to explicitly name the children. On one hand it could > > look at the hints table to see all the 'at nexus?' declarations, but I > >

Some questions about booting with newbus

1999-04-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Some questions I have pertaining the newbus stuff (and as a reminder to you Peter, thanks for looking into it): Am I the only one where booting with -v doesn't really do any verbose booting? Also, as talked about with Peter, -v should report unclaimed/unmatched devices, currently it doesn't... A

Which -current snapshot is good to install?

1999-04-20 Thread nordwick
I have a box with an old 3.0-current distribution on it and want to move it to 4.0-current, but the upgrade path looks daunting, so I thought that I would just reinstall (besides, I could use the practice). I grabbed the 4.0-19990418-current/floppies files, but after a visual conf and removing un

Re: Build of kernel, and make world broken on my machine

1999-04-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > For the last week, I haven't been able to get my kernel to build, or a > make world to complete. I didn't have the kernel problems until recently, > when the newbus stuff was done. This is my error when building the kernel. > (after typing config -r MYKERNEL; make d

Re: ATA driver for alpha (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Nick Hibma wrote: > > Jordan, you said nowadays one can simply compile a kernel < 1.44Mb and > stick it on the disk kern.flp? It is possible. Even more, you can add kld modules to that disk, and then edit loader.rc to load them too, so you don't even need to compile a kernel. > People could appr

Build of kernel, and make world broken on my machine

1999-04-20 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
For the last week, I haven't been able to get my kernel to build, or a make world to complete. I didn't have the kernel problems until recently, when the newbus stuff was done. This is my error when building the kernel. (after typing config -r MYKERNEL; make depend; make) cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundan

Re: ATA driver for alpha (fwd)

1999-04-20 Thread Nick Hibma
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:29:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma To: Erik Haugen Bakke Subject: Re: ATA driver for alpha Jordan, you said nowadays one can simply compile a kernel < 1.44Mb and stick it on the disk kern.flp? People could appreciate this. I

Re: ATA driver for alpha

1999-04-20 Thread Erik Haugen Bakke
> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 e...@habatech.no wrote: > > > > > On 19-Apr-99 Doug Rabson wrote: > > > I have ported the new ATA driver to the FreeBSD/alpha. This provides > > > support for IDE disks and cdroms. The version of the driver in the tree > > > has only been tested on one old 433au machine so

Re: Having trouble with the new ATAPI driver

1999-04-20 Thread Geoff Rehmet
William Liao writes : > > Hi, > I did a CVSUP and make world at 4/15, then I decided to try the > new ATAPI driver on my box. So I made some necessary changes to > my kernel config and made a new kernel. > But after boot, it always hangs on mounting disks. > The message is: swapon: /dev/wd0s1b: D

Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-20 Thread Tomoaki NISHIYAMA
From: Warner Losh Subject: Re: HEADS UP Important instructions for -current users! Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:27:56 -0600 Message-ID: <199904201527.jaa03...@harmony.village.org> imp> Thank you for the update on progress of new config, Nishiyama-san. imp> Are snapshots of the new config work a

Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-20 Thread Warner Losh
Thank you for the update on progress of new config, Nishiyama-san. Are snapshots of the new config work available to members outside the development team? If so, can you post a URL pointing to them. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in

Re: PCI VGA card becomes ISA

1999-04-20 Thread Khetan Gajjar
Around Today, "Doug Rabson" wrote : DR> Its harmless and it should go away soon if we can reorganise syscons' vga DR> driver slightly. I'm seeing this as well, but as you've said, it's harmless. What I am "concerned" about is from sources last night, the error haveseen_isadev() called - FIXME!

Having trouble with the new ATAPI driver

1999-04-20 Thread William Liao
Hi, I did a CVSUP and make world at 4/15, then I decided to try the new ATAPI driver on my box. So I made some necessary changes to my kernel config and made a new kernel. But after boot, it always hangs on mounting disks. The message is: swapon: /dev/wd0s1b: Device not configured Then I tried to

IPFW as built in kernel feature seems broken.

1999-04-20 Thread Ian West
Hi, since rougly the time the recent changes were commited, I have been unable to compile a kernel with the IPFW funtionality build in. It still works as an KLD, but I would prefer not to run it this way. (It bothers me that if something caused it to be unloaded, or to fail to load, the machine cou

Re: Peer review (was: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!)

1999-04-20 Thread Nick Hibma
> > > I think it's more than appropriate, it's *mandatory* if you wish to > > > solve the communication problem. Posting regular updates on your > > > progress on -hackers or -current (depending on applicability) is > > > strongly encouraged. > > > > But as we have seen, posting on -hacker

Re: Peer review (was: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!)

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 21:46:30 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> integrate newconfig stuff. I hope you have the flexibility > >> to think seriously the integration of newconfig. > > > > As long as it doesn't significantly impact the work already i

Re: PCI VGA card becomes ISA

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > I noticed that after the latest round of new-bus changes, my PCI VGA card > is now recognized as a generic ISA card by the kernel. I don't see any ill > effects from this, but the new-bus developers may want to know, in case it > breaks something else. > >

Re: newbus and isa auto irq

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > This is not happening for the maddr stuff. > > I suspect this would do better: > > > > if (portsize > 0) > > isa_set_portsize(dev, portsize); > > if (dvp->id_iobase >= 0)

Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users!

1999-04-20 Thread Nick Hibma
> To make the communication more close, it is possible to post > the achievements and plans to hackers or current. Do you think > this appropriate? Yes. Nick FreeBSD USB Project. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the messa

Re: newbus and modem(s)

1999-04-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > > I don't think I understand. The DRIVER_MODULE declaration goes in the > > > downstream driver, not the upstream bus. The bus doesn't need any > > > knowledge of what drivers might be attached to it. > > > > Well, what about the i386 nexus? It s