Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunderNew Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:00:24 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> There is one problem in this method. acquire_timer0() is only implemented >> for i386. We would need to write something equivalent for alpha... dfr> The timer hardware on the alpha is essentially the same but the

Re: Break of today current and patch

1999-07-08 Thread David O'Brien
> todays current breaks in build of libgcc Since libgcc/Makefile hasn't been touched since April, me thinks something else is going on in your environment. > ===> gnu/lib/libgcc > c++ -O2 -mpentium -fpcc-struct-return -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce ... What does adding "-v" to your CLFAGS in

Re: question regarding CMD640 chipsets

1999-07-08 Thread Bruce Evans
>upon booting -current (from 7/6/99) i noticed that the kernel didn't report >that the work around was enabled... so i began searching through the code >looking for where the workaround actually was... i found it in >src/sys/i386/isa/wd.c (line 282), but the wdc_pci() function only sets >static in

Re: userland ppp - startup

1999-07-08 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
>From the keyboard of Boris Staeblow: > >> Why is rc.conf readable by world?! > > > >Why not? > > What about that: > > spppconfig_isp0="authproto=chap myauthname=foo myauthsecret='top secret' > hisauthname=some-gw hisauthsecret='another secret'" I'm not quite satisfied with the way the passwor

Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?

1999-07-08 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:18:35AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > The newest INN does not have this option, MMAP() is a requirement for > it... Sorry, I didn't know that. Too bad, then. > ah, okay, so you are saying that FreeBSD shouldn't be demonstrated using > software that taxes/tweaks bug

Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:At that time, Matt pop'd up and stated that he knew of *at least* 6 MMAP() :related race conditions that he was hoping to be able to get fixed "within :a week"...that would have been two weeks ago. I think I was talking about mmap w/ NFS. Under FreeBSD-current I know of two problems ( t

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Bruce Evans
>dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 >dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire? If so, >dfr> then it sounds very good. The idea of taking 6000+ interrupts/sec made me >dfr> uneasy, even though most would return without doing an

Re: Rewriting pca(4) using finetimer(9) (was: Re: MPU401 now worksunder New Midi Driver Framework with a Fine Timer)

1999-07-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Somebody should study the abilities of the on-cpu APIC for this for pentium ff. machines. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >>dfr> If I understand this correctly, you are suggesting that we program timer0 >>dfr> so that we only take interrupts when a finetimer is due to fire?

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current kernel build temporarily broken

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
Just to head off complaints - we accidently made an incomplete commit last night updating some vfs/bio stuff. I have an email in to Kirk with the pieces that we forgot. CURRENT will not build (or if it does, it will crunch) at the moment.

Re: Stuck in "objtrm" - live kernel test to run

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, I've traced the code down and I think that there is a good chance that the OBJ_DEAD fix that Alan described may solve the problem. What I think is happening is that a process context is holding a PIP count on the object, then deallocating the object and creating an interlo

Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?

1999-07-08 Thread Doug
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > right now, at work, I'm enjoying a 4 way battle. Me, fighting to bring in > FreeBSD to replace some of our Solaris boxes. A friend of mine, fighting > to bring in Linux to replace some of our Solaris boxes. My boss fighting > against both of us to

Re: current kernel build temporarily broken

1999-07-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> it will crunch) at the moment. :> :> -Matt : :Is there anything I can do? : :Cheers, :-Peter (CC'ing to current) Kirk committed the fix -- The sense of a KASSERT() had gotten reversed accidently. Everything is hunky dory - except for

Re: question regarding CMD640 chipsets

1999-07-08 Thread Bradley T. Hughes
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > Rev.1.31 of ide_pci.c put the call in a dubious place (after some early > return statements) in ide_pci_attach(). Try putting it at the beginning > of the function (after `type' is initialized). hmmm if i had looked the code above that switch()... i

Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?

1999-07-08 Thread The Hermit Hacker
I wish to make one thing perfectly clear here, or, rather, a couple of things. None of this thread was started as a 'slam session' against *anyone* out there... To those that have responded privately that "they are experiencing the problem too", without a better way of saying it...that helps ab

MTRR stuff

1999-07-08 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
For some video cards (to wit, the voodoo stuff), the MTRRs should be set up as follows write-combining +--+ +---+ uncacheable i.e. the two regions have the same starting area, but the small chunk for the registers should be un

Re: Break of today current and patch

1999-07-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > todays current breaks in build of libgcc > > Since libgcc/Makefile hasn't been touched since April, me thinks > something else is going on in your environment. > > > ===> gnu/lib/libgcc > > c++ -O2 -mpentium -fpcc-struct-return -ffast-math -fno-stre

Dirty pages & low memory hangs with mmap

1999-07-08 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
I've been seeing an interesting problem when doing a make installworld on a 486 with 16MB of memory. Immediately after installing libc.so.3, it will hang. DDB gives a backtrace to a mmap related call (sorry, the box is at home at the memoment and this email was prompted by something on freebsd-

Re: Dirty pages & low memory hangs with mmap

1999-07-08 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth once wrote: > I've been seeing an interesting problem when doing a make installworld > on a 486 with 16MB of memory. Immediately after installing libc.so.3, > it will hang. Happened to me here today on Pentium 90 with 64Mb of RAM. It wa