Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
On 1/20/2011 3:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: > Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that > GPT is not supported on every (even modern) computer ? GPT is fully compatible with the universe of PC/AT BIOS-compatible computers, which is essentially all "PCs" going back to th

Re: RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld)

2011-01-20 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:17:40 +0100 > Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Currently our buildworld relies on groff(1) and vgrind(1) being >> present in the host system. I have a patch ready that at least makes >> sure these are built

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/20/11 17:21, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/20/2011 14:47, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 01/20/11 16:44, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/20/2011 14:15, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: [ ... ] Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GP

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/20/11 17:44, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: On 14/01/2011 19:26, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: As those of you who have been reading freebsd-sysinstall and freebsd-arch know, I have been working for a few weeks on a lightweight new installer named

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: > On 14/01/2011 19:26, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> >> As those of you who have been reading freebsd-sysinstall and >> freebsd-arch know, I have been working for a few weeks on a lightweight >> new installer named 'bsdinstall'. This is designed

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/20/2011 14:47, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 01/20/11 16:44, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/20/2011 14:15, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: [ ... ] Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GPT is not supported on every (even moder

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/20/11 16:44, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/20/2011 14:15, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: [ ... ] Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GPT is not supported on every (even modern) computer ? Sure. Legacy PC/BIOS platform

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/20/2011 14:15, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: [ ... ] Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GPT is not supported on every (even modern) computer ? Sure. Legacy PC/BIOS platforms can work with a hybrid GPT which inc

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Olivier Smedts
2011/1/20 Chuck Swiger : > On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: > [ ... ] >> Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GPT is >> not supported on every (even modern) computer ? > > Sure.  Legacy PC/BIOS platforms can work with a hybrid GPT which includes t

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: [ ... ] > Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GPT is > not supported on every (even modern) computer ? Sure. Legacy PC/BIOS platforms can work with a hybrid GPT which includes the legacy or "protective" MBR use

Re: RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld)

2011-01-20 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 20.01.2011 at 15:31:03 -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:17:40 +0100 > Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Currently our buildworld relies on groff(1) and vgrind(1) being > > present in the host system. I have a patch ready that at least makes > > sure these

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread David Demelier
On 14/01/2011 19:26, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: As those of you who have been reading freebsd-sysinstall and freebsd-arch know, I have been working for a few weeks on a lightweight new installer named 'bsdinstall'. This is designed to replace sysinstall for the 9.0 release. After two weeks of testi

Re: RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld)

2011-01-20 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:17:40 +0100 Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Hello, > > Currently our buildworld relies on groff(1) and vgrind(1) being > present in the host system. I have a patch ready that at least makes > sure these are built during bootstrap-tools and completes the > WITHOUT_GROFF flag. > >

RFC vgrind in base (and buildworld)

2011-01-20 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Hello, Currently our buildworld relies on groff(1) and vgrind(1) being present in the host system. I have a patch ready that at least makes sure these are built during bootstrap-tools and completes the WITHOUT_GROFF flag. vgrind(1) is only used for two papers under share/doc and we could easily e

Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD

2011-01-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:58:33AM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 19:31 , Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > >> The final architecture on which we use sysinstall, ia64, is currently > >> unsupported, because I don't know how

Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-01-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/20/2011 9:30 AM, Matthew Fleming wrote: > As far as I can tell this is another cvsup / tinderbox bug. Both > sysctl.h and tsc.c were modified in r217616 but somehow tsc.c is > seeing the old version of sysctl.h. This happened on another of my > commits a few weeks ago. Sometimes it takes a

Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Fleming
As far as I can tell this is another cvsup / tinderbox bug. Both sysctl.h and tsc.c were modified in r217616 but somehow tsc.c is seeing the old version of sysctl.h. This happened on another of my commits a few weeks ago. Hmm, does bumping __FreeBSD_version have anything to do with this? I bela

[head tinderbox] failure on powerpc64/powerpc

2011-01-20 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-01-20 11:35:10 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-01-20 11:35:10 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for powerpc64/powerpc TB --- 2011-01-20 11:35:10 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:35:24 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:35:24 - /u

[head tinderbox] failure on powerpc/powerpc

2011-01-20 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-01-20 11:22:12 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-01-20 11:22:12 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for powerpc/powerpc TB --- 2011-01-20 11:22:12 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:22:25 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:22:25 - /usr

[head tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sun4v

2011-01-20 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-01-20 11:50:46 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-01-20 11:50:46 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for sparc64/sun4v TB --- 2011-01-20 11:50:46 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:50:55 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:50:55 - /usr/b

[head tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2011-01-20 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-01-20 11:38:04 - tinderbox 2.6 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-01-20 11:38:04 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2011-01-20 11:38:04 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:38:15 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-01-20 11:38:15 - /usr

Re: More if_ath churn coming your way!

2011-01-20 Thread Maciej Milewski
Dnia czwartek, 20 stycznia 2011 o 10:44:27 Max Khon napisał(a): > Adrian, > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Adrian Chadd > wrote: > > I'm in the process of merging in the non-intrusive changes to the > > > if_ath code into -HEAD. > > > > I'd appreciate some testing just to ensure I haven't

Re: More if_ath churn coming your way!

2011-01-20 Thread Max Khon
Adrian, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: I'm in the process of merging in the non-intrusive changes to the > if_ath code into -HEAD. > > I'd appreciate some testing just to ensure I haven't broken anything > terribly obvious. > Any chances for proper support for Atheros 802.

Re: More if_ath churn coming your way!

2011-01-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 20 January 2011 17:44, Max Khon wrote: > Any chances for proper support for Atheros 802.11n cards? > Should not we just port ath9k (Linux) or athn (OpenBSD) drivers? *grin* I have the beginnings of functioning 802.11n support. This stuff is just structural precursors to that. I'm just tidyin