Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > You set a 'low' priority for the ide match as -100. I suggest we use a > much lower value for that: -1. With USB we have 15 levels already, > spaced ten apart (welcome back BASIC :) makes 150. > > Has anyone come up with a decent set of levels yet,

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Nick Hibma
> > #define PRIORITY_FAIL -1 > > > > It sounds like we can loads of haggling about the names there... The > > last one is to take out the dependency on errno being greater than > > zero. > > I would actually quite like to keep the possibility of returning an errno. > It gives

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > #define PRIORITY_FAIL-1 > > > > > > It sounds like we can loads of haggling about the names there... The > > > last one is to take out the dependency on errno being greater than > > > zero. > > > > I would actually quite like to kee

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Bruce Evans
>> How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert >> somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL? > >They just are positive and have always been positive :-) > >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't >even want to think about it.

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert > >> somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL? > > > >They just are positive and have always been positive :-) > > > >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so mu

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Bruce Evans
>> >They just are positive and have always been positive :-) >> > >> >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't >> >even want to think about it. >> >> >From errno.h: >> >> #ifdef KERNEL >> /* pseudo-errors returned inside kernel to modify return to process */ >> #def

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> >They just are positive and have always been positive :-) > >> > > >> >Changing that (making errnos negative) would break so much code I don't > >> >even want to think about it. > >> > >> >From errno.h: > >> > >> #ifdef KERNEL > >> /* pseudo-errors re

Re: MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

1999-05-21 Thread Brian Feldman
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > > > > > Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I > > > want > > > to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) > > > > It's being worked on. The K6 is a problematic device, as it

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-21 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
In article <199905210435.oaa11...@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you wrote: >>> I'm not sure why it happens like this; try putting a DELAY() just >>> before we actually set the root device and see if you can put it off. >> >>Why not just spl() protect that printf call so that its output is >>dumped contigu

Re: priorities

1999-05-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > How do you guarantuee that the errno is positive? Add an assert > somewhere, like checking whether ENXIO >= PRIORITY_FAIL? No, we simply define it to be so. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / T

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-21 Thread Mike Smith
> > > The loader won't help you because you are booting from under DOS, but > > the loader will boot the kernel just fine off a DOS filesystem. > > I'd like to understand this aspect of the loader better. This mode > might be useful for booting from (for example) a DOS flash filesystem? Typica

4.0-current install problem(s)

1999-05-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I build a 4.0-current SNAP each evenning, and thought I'd give a new install a try since the dev_t issue appears to have been resolved.. Unfortunately, booting from either a CD or boot floppies, after probing the ppi0(or maybe plip0) device, the system spontaniously reboots (and I can't

commercial products for computer telephony development (*BSD and/ or Linux)

1999-05-21 Thread Gong Wei
Hi all, Is there any commercial products for computer telephony development on *BSD and/or Linux exists today? Basically we are looking for quite standard features like interactive voice response, voice messaging, text to speech, fax, notification systems, etc. I am in fact trying one product

Re: -current deadlocks within 5 mins, over NFS

1999-05-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matt, I told you about this before, but completely forgot about it. After :doing considerable testing on my test servers, i thought -current was safe :enough to try on our production shell servers. I installed -current on one :of my servers, and to my dismay, it hung. :) : :Within 5 minutes of r

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-21 Thread Bruce Evans
>Perhaps I should use the log facility instead of printf in the announce >code? This would just duplicate boot-time output, since log() echoes everything using printf() if the log device is not open. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in

Re: 4.0-current install problem(s)(cannot mount root)

1999-05-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Following up on my own mail... I applied the patch below from John Birrell, and the boot process got farther, but still fails. Chasing the problem alittle farther I found the following in ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c: rootdev = makedev(255, mfs_minor++); printf(

Re: 4.0-current install problem(s)(error mounting root)

1999-05-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following patch and John Birrell's patch posted earlier appear to fix the problem when booting a 4.0-current install floppy(kern.flp). The DEVT_FASCIST macro is incorrect and does the wrong thing when the device id 'x' passed into makedev is 255. Thanks, John Index: kern_conf.c =