Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Andrey A. Chernov wrote (2001/04/19): > In any case it must be sysctl-controlled variable and not kernel > option only. Rebuilding whole kernel to just change console language is > superfluous! rc.syscon/rc.conf hooks must be added too. I agree that there should be some rc.* variable. It is not

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:08 PM -0700 4/19/01, Dima Dorfman wrote: >Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Or maybe something to indicate where the list of arguments >> should go in a command. Hrm. Let's say '-Y replstr' or >> '-y[replstr]' (no blank after -y). If no [replstr] is >> given on -y, it

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-19 Thread Dima Dorfman
Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or maybe something to indicate where the list of arguments > should go in a command. Hrm. Let's say '-Y replstr' or > '-y[replstr]' (no blank after -y). If no [replstr] is > given on -y, it defaults to the two characters '[]'. > Then one might do:

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:39 PM -0400 4/19/01, John W. De Boskey wrote: >I have added a -d dir option to cp. This allows the target >directory to be specified at the head of the command line >instead of the tail. This makes cp work much more nicely with >tools like xargs... (allowing for major performance improvem

Re: etc/* in pending release

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Barton
"Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > > I am planning to shift a machine from -current to the pending release. > > I have tracked -current (SMP) on this machine for > 4 years. But, > now, I need to depend on it - it is old, making a net server. > > What date were the etc/* files frozen for the pending rel

Re: sound driver breakage/megapatch

2001-04-19 Thread Daniel
I have the same problem on a Sony VAIO PCG-XG38 running -current pcm0: mem 0xfedf-0xfedf7fff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0 daniel.- On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Scott Hazen Mueller wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:02:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Scott Hazen Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: sound driver breakage/megapatch

2001-04-19 Thread
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:02:18PM -0700, Scott Hazen Mueller wrote: > It looks like the recent sound driver megapatch broke (at least) the Neomagic > 256AV driver. With a cvsup from yesterday, trying to do play mp3 files got > trash that was vaguely recognizable as a seriously distorted version

sound driver breakage/megapatch

2001-04-19 Thread Scott Hazen Mueller
It looks like the recent sound driver megapatch broke (at least) the Neomagic 256AV driver. With a cvsup from yesterday, trying to do play mp3 files got trash that was vaguely recognizable as a seriously distorted version of the original piece. I did some trolling of the cvsweb and decided to ro

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:39:58 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > Let me explain a little more. If it's commented out, it's fine. But > > if you are actually setting a value in there you will override whatever > > is set in the kernel. W

Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:12:24PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > [...] > > > IIRC, it is assumed that "make -jX install (where X > 1)" _doesn't_ work. > > > I've heard why, but I've forgotten :-) > > > > Right. One case where it doesn't work is install

Re: Atomic install(1) by default (was: Re: groff breaks "make -j Nbuildworld")

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:53:53PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:12:24PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > atomic installation. Atomic installation (but not -C) should be the > > > default. > > > > > This one seems like an

Re: Failed using CD-ROM as root filesystem

2001-04-19 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:27:24PM +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > I've tried to use (bootable) CD-ROM as root filesystem (I want have > this because it's good alternative of fixit.flp), but it seems that > GENERIC kernel doesn't understand where is root filesystem. > > What I did are: >

cp -d dir patch for review

2001-04-19 Thread John W. De Boskey
Hi, I have added a -d dir option to cp. This allows the target directory to be specified at the head of the command line instead of the tail. This makes cp work much more nicely with tools like xargs... (allowing for major performance improvements over inline shell loops). The patch is at:

RE: Breakage in today's -CURRENT

2001-04-19 Thread John Baldwin
On 19-Apr-01 Greg Lehey wrote: > I've just built a couple of worlds from -CURRENT cvsupped at 2030 UTC > on the 18th, and at 0600 UTC on the 19th. In each case, I have > massive problems, apparently with the synchronization. Here's some > log file output: > > Apr 19 18:11:34 zaphod /boot/kerne

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:47:20 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > :> set that default in stone and prevent us from being able to change > :> it with a new kernel rev. This being a *kernel* specific feature, > :> we need to have control over the default in the kernel itself. > : > :What abo

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Matt Dillon
:> set that default in stone and prevent us from being able to change :> it with a new kernel rev. This being a *kernel* specific feature, :> we need to have control over the default in the kernel itself. : :What about simple check in the kernel: if total memory is above 64Mb, then :e

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:39:58 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > :But we already have sysctl.conf and appropriate rc.sysctl, haven't we? What's > :wrong with putting some useful payload into it? > : > :-Maxim > > Let me explain a little more. If it's commented out, it's fine. But > if you a

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Matt Dillon
:But we already have sysctl.conf and appropriate rc.sysctl, haven't we? What's :wrong with putting some useful payload into it? : :-Maxim Let me explain a little more. If it's commented out, it's fine. But if you are actually setting a value in there you will override whatever is se

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Matt Dillon
:But we already have sysctl.conf and appropriate rc.sysctl, haven't we? What's :wrong with putting some useful payload into it? : :-Maxim If it's commented out, it's fine. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: LINT and NOTES

2001-04-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:23:54PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:23:02AM -0700, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > > I just wanted to close http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25030 > > by frobbing NOTES. While 4.2-R LINT has option USER_LDT, NOTES doesn't > > have it anym

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 16:03:01 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Wont work, it needs to be in the (IIRC) 0xd0 - 0xe0 range for the > > HW to DTRT with the ninth bit on VGA HW. > > It works for years, just making small vertical black line sometimes > appearse in the cursor. BTW, default varia

Re: LINT and NOTES

2001-04-19 Thread Will Andrews
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:23:02AM -0700, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > I just wanted to close http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25030 > by frobbing NOTES. While 4.2-R LINT has option USER_LDT, NOTES doesn't > have it anymore. Can anybody clue me in why it disappeared? Can I simply > resurre

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Matt Dillon wrote: > : > :What do you think about attached patch? > : > :-Maxim > > mmm.. I think it would just confuse the issue and prevent us from > being able to change the kernel default trivially. 99.5% of the > FreeBSD boxes out there are just going to want it to be on by defa

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Matt Dillon
: :What do you think about attached patch? : :-Maxim mmm.. I think it would just confuse the issue and prevent us from being able to change the kernel default trivially. 99.5% of the FreeBSD boxes out there are just going to want it to be on by default. We could provide a comment

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Doug Barton wrote: > Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > > > What do you think about attached patch? > > Definitely the right idea, however I'm waiting on input from a couple > people on some additional suggestions, so if you'd hold off I'd appreciate > it. Unfortunately I've already cvs ci it. :

core(5) implementation using perl(1)

2001-04-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, Attached script forces perl(1) to dump core, which isn't a good behaviour IMO (tested on 5-CURRENT and 4.3-RC). -Maxim #!/bin/sh perl -pi -e "s|make|\$\{MAKE\}|g ; s|^INCPATH=.*|INCPATH=-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL11 -D_REENTRANT| ;

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Doug Barton
Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > What do you think about attached patch? Definitely the right idea, however I'm waiting on input from a couple people on some additional suggestions, so if you'd hold off I'd appreciate it. -- "One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is

Atomic install(1) by default (was: Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld")

2001-04-19 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:53:53PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:12:24PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > [...] > > > IIRC, it is assumed that "make -jX install (where X > 1)" _doesn't_ work. > > > I've heard why, but I've forgotten :-) > > > > Right. One case where it doe

Re: make -jN bug (was: Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld")

2001-04-19 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:38:49PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Attached is the Makefile that demonstrates the problem. Run it like this: > > > > make obj; make all > > > > Then try: > > > > make install > > > > And then try: > > > >

Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-19 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:12:24PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: [...] > > IIRC, it is assumed that "make -jX install (where X > 1)" _doesn't_ work. > > I've heard why, but I've forgotten :-) > > Right. One case where it doesn't work is installing /bin/sh with the > default install flags. /bin/sh ge

Re: make -jN bug (was: Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld")

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Attached is the Makefile that demonstrates the problem. Run it like this: > > make obj; make all > > Then try: > > make install > > And then try: > > make -j2 install > > Note the difference. This fixes the problem: > > --- M

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Alex Kapranoff
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:46:39PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > What do you think about attached patch? > > -Maxim > > Index: Makefile > === > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.248 > diff -d -u -r1

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Julian Elischer
"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, Sřren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > > > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > > > 0x03-0

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010419 06:20] wrote: > > OOPS, I see. See updated patch. Looks ok. > Index: Makefile > === > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.248 > diff -d -u -r1.248 Makefile > -

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010419 05:48] wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > > > I'm figuring the only time when it may be a problem is on machines > > > > with a small amount of memory. Since memory is cheap, I plan on >

Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > ru> I always thought that ``obj'', ``all'' and ``install'' should be > ru> executed in sequence, not together. Hey, this even does not work > ru> for bin/cat: `obj' must normally be built before everything else. Otherwise, make(1) will start by c

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:29 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > > You might want to specify in the comment what the arguments should look > like, like an example. > > +mousechar_start="NO"# if 0xd0-0xd4 default range occuped in the font code > > + # table, specify alternative r

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010419 05:48] wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > I'm figuring the only time when it may be a problem is on machines > > > with a small amount of memory. Since memory is cheap, I plan on > > > turning it on within the next coup

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Nick Hibma
You might want to specify in the comment what the arguments should look like, like an example. Nick On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 21:23:57 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > > > Maybe we should automatically add `-M 3' to flags for vidcontrol > > in rc.

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 21:23:57 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > Maybe we should automatically add `-M 3' to flags for vidcontrol > in rc.conf for those languages... > Please review this patch: --- defaults/rc.conf.oldTue Apr 10 05:34:17 2001 +++ defaults/rc.confThu Apr 19 16:46:

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Doug Barton wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > I'm figuring the only time when it may be a problem is on machines > > with a small amount of memory. Since memory is cheap, I plan on > > turning it on within the next couple of days unless a stability > > issue comes up. > > > > I'll leave it

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 16:03:01 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > The has been beaten to death several times before, check the archives... > > We just add yet one conflicting language - Ukrainian. How many you want > to change this decision? Breaking letters is more important than black > l

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, S ren Schmidt wrote: >> It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: >> > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict >> > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to >> > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefin

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it t

Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it to any range as currently > present. This way minimizes arcane informa

Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal

2001-04-19 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it to any range as currently present. This way minimizes arcane information needed for user to setup its language

make -jN bug (was: Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld")

2001-04-19 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:18:41PM +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > ru> I always thought that ``obj'', ``all'' and ``install'' should be > ru> executed in sequence, not together. Hey, this even does not work > ru> for bin/cat: > > IIRC, it is assumed that "make -jX install (where X > 1)" _do

Breakage in today's -CURRENT

2001-04-19 Thread Greg Lehey
I've just built a couple of worlds from -CURRENT cvsupped at 2030 UTC on the 18th, and at 0600 UTC on the 19th. In each case, I have massive problems, apparently with the synchronization. Here's some log file output: Apr 19 18:11:34 zaphod /boot/kernel/kernel: fforrwwarardd__hsatradtcclloocckk:

Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-19 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
ru> I always thought that ``obj'', ``all'' and ``install'' should be ru> executed in sequence, not together. Hey, this even does not work ru> for bin/cat: IIRC, it is assumed that "make -jX install (where X > 1)" _doesn't_ work. I've heard why, but I've forgotten :-) -- - Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHI

Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-19 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! I always thought that ``obj'', ``all'' and ``install'' should be executed in sequence, not together. Hey, this even does not work for bin/cat: $ uname -a FreeBSD dev.lan.Awfulhak.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #7: Wed Apr 18 14:07:56 BST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys