Re: Seat-belt for source upgrades from stable to current

2003-01-31 Thread Chris BeHanna
k space, mirroring the entire repo > infeasible...] > > Transferring the entire source tree over the network via anoncvs is > suboptimal when all I really want is a few kilobytes of 'CVS' > subdirectories. But I guess it will have to do for now. It'

Cross-build ports from stable box?

2003-02-07 Thread Chris BeHanna
home office workhorse (fileserver, SAMBA, print spooler, mail server, and firewall). Is there any way that I can build ports on the fast -STABLE box using a -CURRENT cross-environment? Thanks, -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com Principal Consultant Penn

Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

2003-02-13 Thread Chris BeHanna
t; about application-layer benchmarks for other protocols, such as SMTP, > > POP3, or IMAP? > > > > Just curious. Thanks! > > This can quickly turn into a bikeshed, but suggest ones. We're looking for > good benchmarks. lmbench, rawio, and bonniee are rather &q

Local repo: Perforce/CVS integration

2003-02-16 Thread Chris BeHanna
, rather than roll my own. Thanks, -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com Principal Consultant PennaSoft Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree

2003-03-02 Thread Chris BeHanna
better code than gcc does, even than gcc -O3 (and all > known optimizations on). Is someone working on such a port? Will a "bootstrap" port to build it with GCC be part of the work? -- Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com Principal Consultant

Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-24 Thread Chris BeHanna
hors. Of course, the "no warranty" aspects of > > open source drivers turns a blind eye to liability, but would things really > > come back to Broadcom? > > The logic is simple. the FCC hold the manufacturer responsible for > improper RF from any product. The Br

Re: policy on GPL'd drivers?

2003-05-27 Thread Chris BeHanna
r since I am sure "patching" it won't be enough to map the > linux innards to freebsd's. Get someone to pair with you and do a clean-room implementation. One of you studies the GPL'd driver and writes a specification. The other writes a BSD-lic

NFS Locking Problems (Was: Re: I'm impressed, but ...)

2002-12-08 Thread Chris BeHanna
hat have been acquired by processes on host A. I have not tried these tests on current. To be fair, I only recently read (here) that rpc.lockd has to run on the client side as well as on the server side, and I have not yet repeated my tests. That's on my List of Things to Do RSN. -- Ch

Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE not easily scalable to large servers ... ?

2002-04-23 Thread Chris BeHanna
ed for some kind of overall architectural document, as well as the difficulty of keeping it up-to-date, but it would be of tremendous help to everyone working on the project. *If* developers can get used to updating the in-comment documentation whenever they make changes, then this reference would automatica