Re: [HEADSUP] FYI: patch to ports that do not build with clang has been committed

2012-10-12 Thread matt
On 10/12/12 00:54, Claude Buisson wrote: On 10/12/2012 05:00, matt wrote: I have made changes to ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk that allow the addition of "USE_GCC=any" to a port's Makefile, and then committed that change to various ports. In most (but not all!) cases this will tell the port "build wit

Re: boot2/loader: serial port handling

2012-10-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Xin Li wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 ... > Ah I wish I am not this far behind my email backlog. Yes I think > these (241300 and 241301) will solve the problem. Yeah -- forgot about the other one. There's another enhancement that

Re: boot2/loader: serial port handling

2012-10-12 Thread Xin Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/12/12 17:04, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Xin Li > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have some rather hacky quick hack at $WORK that addresses a >> problem we have found with boot2/loader and wants to share it and >> see if w

Re: boot2/loader: serial port handling

2012-10-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Xin Li wrote: > Hi, > > We have some rather hacky quick hack at $WORK that addresses a problem > we have found with boot2/loader and wants to share it and see if we can > have more neat solution. > > Here is the problem: the current boot2 and loader have various pl

boot2/loader: serial port handling

2012-10-12 Thread Xin Li
Hi, We have some rather hacky quick hack at $WORK that addresses a problem we have found with boot2/loader and wants to share it and see if we can have more neat solution. Here is the problem: the current boot2 and loader have various places where it considers serial port to exist. When the port

Re: new DragonFly-3.2 scheduler and PostgreSQL comparision with FreeBSD 9.1-RC1

2012-10-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 October 2012 11:10, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > I don't like comparing Release Candidates without any details about config, > but the fact that DF 3.2 is much better than DF 3.0 is interesting. And they > are very close to performance of Scientific Linux 6.2. Hey cool! And F

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:51:06 +0200 Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > For longevity, I'd have a bit more confidence if this was an IvyBridge > system ... Now that FreeBSD somewhat supports the Intel HD graphics, I > might even slap on XBMC. And yes, living room + low noise is key, aka > Wife Acceptance Fac

[head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2012-10-12 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-10-12 14:20:00 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-10-12 14:20:00 - FreeBSD freebsd-current.sentex.ca 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 26 13:54:12 EDT 2012 d...@freebsd-current.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 TB --- 2012-

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Asen Varsanov
On 10/11/2012 04:54 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Hey guys, > > I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my > router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The > replacement should have: > > - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) > - 2x GigE (igress, e

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, I have a Supermicros X7SPA-HF-D525 running as a fileserver. Six SATA connectors on board and runs flawlessly with eight GiB Mem. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 From: Ulrich Spörlein To: curr...@freebsd.org Subject: Buying recommendation fo

Re: [head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2012-10-12 Thread Bryan Venteicher
Hi, - Original Message - > From: "FreeBSD Tinderbox" > To: "FreeBSD Tinderbox" , curr...@freebsd.org, > i...@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 6:11:27 AM > Subject: [head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386 > > TB --- 2012-10-12 04:50:01 - tinderbox 2.9 running on > freebsd-curre

Re: Bull Mountain (IvyBridge +) random number generator

2012-10-12 Thread Konstantin Belousov
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:50:55AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > schrieb Konstantin Belousov am 02.09.2012 12:34 (localtime): > > It is relatively well known that Ivy Bridge CPUs (Core iX 3XXX) have > > built-in hardware random number generator, which is claimed to be both > > very fast and

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Adam McDougall
I did not, but I put it on my list to try to accomplish. On 10/11/12 13:41, Adrian Chadd wrote: Did you ever file a PR for the slow SATA behaviour? Adrian On 11 October 2012 09:52, Adam McDougall wrote: On 10/11/12 12:05, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulri

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 13:03:23 +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: > On 12.10.2012 11:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 17:05:46 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 > >> schrieb Ulrich Spörlein : > >> > >>> Hey guys, > >>> > >>> I need to replace an a

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:03:10 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein : > Interesting one, with only one GigE port though, both PCIe slots would > need to be populated to get a second Ethernet and a Wifi port ... As said, it would be better to use a 2nd system (ALIX only uses 5-10W or so) for WIFI (and eve

[head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2012-10-12 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2012-10-12 04:50:01 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2012-10-12 04:50:01 - FreeBSD freebsd-current.sentex.ca 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Mar 26 13:54:12 EDT 2012 d...@freebsd-current.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 TB --- 2012-

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
On 12.10.2012 11:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 17:05:46 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 >> schrieb Ulrich Spörlein : >> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as >>> my router, access point, fi

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Btw, eSATA is supposed to simply show up as another SATA port in > FreeBSD, right? No special driver supported needed for that one? Yep, I have an eSATA hard drive dock, drop the drive in and it is instantly recognised. The eSATA port in

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 10:48:22 +0300, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 11.10.2012 17:54, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my > > router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The > > replacement shou

Re: Bull Mountain (IvyBridge +) random number generator

2012-10-12 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" ... I guess using RDRAND in an hypervisor environment should make no difference but please correct me if I'm wrong. Try compiling your kernel with:- no options PADLOCK_RNG no options IVY_RNG Or commenting the relevant lines out of you

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 17:05:46 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 > schrieb Ulrich Spörlein : > > > Hey guys, > > > > I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as > > my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time > > now

Re: Bull Mountain (IvyBridge +) random number generator

2012-10-12 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
schrieb Konstantin Belousov am 02.09.2012 12:34 (localtime): > It is relatively well known that Ivy Bridge CPUs (Core iX 3XXX) have > built-in hardware random number generator, which is claimed to be both > very fast and high quality. Generator is accessible using non-privileged > RDRAND instructi

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
11.10.2012 17:54, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces) -

Re: [HEADSUP] FYI: patch to ports that do not build with clang has been committed

2012-10-12 Thread Claude Buisson
On 10/12/2012 05:00, matt wrote: I have made changes to ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk that allow the addition of "USE_GCC=any" to a port's Makefile, and then committed that change to various ports. In most (but not all!) cases this will tell the port "build with gcc instead of clang" (*) . Why not U