Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

it be legal to include in standard CVSUP configs rules which prevent loss of the links if installed? o I may be wrong, but I think I loose them when I refresh if some rules are present. -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 40

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

cool. endit. -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310| Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311| http://www.dstc.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon

. cheers -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310| Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311| http://www.dstc.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current&qu

namei() costs for symlink farms and big dirs

Can I pick some FreeBSD experts brains off-list please? anybody who can comment on the cost(s) of running large flat directories of symlinks (eg using GNU stow for /usr/local/bin) especially over NFS? cheers -George To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe free

SIO "lost interrupt" status in current?

I've done a quick scan of the lists and GNATS db, and see some evidence that in the last 1-2 years there has been a thread of people who see bad sio performance, coupled to any of X, Audio and APM (including bios APM setting). The PRs most relevant (but only marginally IMHO) are: http://www.fr

Re: SIO "lost interrupt" status in current?

tance, would swapping the sio used for mouse and modem make sense? or do they use common paths in the motherboard such that a fault in serial is going to kill both of them..) I would *love* this to turn out to be hardware! cheers -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pt

Re: SIO "lost interrupt" status in current?

I wasn't using the DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 flags on wdc. Added that. still got the drops.. I removed the ed0 ISA card from the kernel, seemed to reduce freq. still dropped. I then tried harder to look for a correlation. doing virtual desktop pans caused every drop every time. small increme

Re: Mounting one FS on more than one system

reduce the complexity? eg /usr mounted read-mostly for a bunch of tightly coupled boxes. If some other protocol is used for interlock, does this make mmap shares across clusters faster? -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

abuse seems to be a concept vanishing from the language... cheers -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310| Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311| http://www.dstc.edu.au To Unsubscribe:

heimdal/kerberosV pam module?

there doesn't appear to be recent mail in the searchable archives discussing the status of Heimdal, Kerberos V or pam. can somebody clueful give me some pointers please? cheers -George To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: heimdal/kerberosV pam module?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, George Michaelson wrote: > there doesn't appear to be recent mail in the searchable archives > discussing the status of Heimdal, Kerberos V or pam. > > can somebody clueful give me some pointers please? Pointers on? Pointers on the

Now softupdates are BSD licenced can they go in smoothly?

>From Daemon news: Kirk McKusick announced this morning at the USENIX keynote that the softupdates code will now be available under a BSD license. Details to follow. So does this mean the whole shebang of find/read/link/recompile can finally end? NetBSD got rid of this ages ago. -George T

what turns on YP in getpwent()

At line 67 in getpwent.c under libc/gen there is a block of code which is #ifdef YP. I know its a dumb question but what turns this #ifdef on? I ask, because I truss'd my login process after enabling yp via ypinit and while I can ypcat my maps, I can't see login do diddly squat into them under pa

Re: what turns on YP in getpwent()

To answer my own question: src/lib/libc/Makefile.inc has .if !defined(NO_YP_LIBC) CFLAGS+= -DYP .include "${.CURDIR}/../libc/yp/Makefile.inc" .endif a find down the src tree does not reveal this being defined. I'm going to have to look elsewhere for Y

Re: what turns on YP in getpwent()

RTFM. you cannot use +:* as the NIS catchall in FreeBSD. Its documented. (sigh) sorry. -George To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

topsy: you can't add trustable randomness by taking skewed input sources. People like Bruce Schneier, Steve Bellovin, they are not unapproachable. Could somebody mail them for comments on whats considered acceptable sources of random bits? Please? -George -- George Michaelson | D

Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

Where for instance do these ideas fit into the models proposed in draft-eastlake-randomness2-00.txt or the proceeding RFC? -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310| Australia Fax: +61 7

IPSEC in current: any success stories?

If anybody else in current-land is able to discuss making ipsec work correctly, using the codebase cross-ported from OpenBSD, I'd love some hints. This isn't something I'd expect anybody wants discussed in current itself, I'm just hunting the right people! cheers -George (I have it comp

Re: SOFTUPDATES?

In all fairness, since the SOFTUPDATES comments in LINT point you to read the README, and this ask you to (paraphrased) "edit /etc/rc and disable update" I suggest that following the guidelines closely will prove challenging :-) Also, some commentary on the advisability of enabling so

newbus, sio performance and 'the worst interrupt culprit'

I too have current (as of last week), newbus, and sio as well as pcm0 I see heaps of lost interrupts. The mail archive has one message saying "newbus broke fast interrupts' but no (not much?) followup to clarify (a) if its still true and (b) what exactly it implies for finding which driver is s

ACPI documentation?

I've scanned the email list archive but I can't see any overview or example/suggested ACPI interactions. Is there a brief document somewhere which summarizes how to interact with an ACPI enabled kernel? Which clarifies what to do with stub apm_ references in configs? (upgrading from 4.5. So far

Re: ACPI documentation?

warned|told which are 'safe' and what happens if you enable apm and acpi simultaneously. cheers -George -- George Michaelson | APNIC Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| PO Box 2131 Milton QLD 4064 Phone: +61 7 3858 3100 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 | http://www.apnic

Re: CFT: FreeBSD Package Base

The current state of this looks logical: its the bare minimum to represent the .tgz which we recognized from install menu choices, which minimises any real SAT solver dependency load, because these are not cross-dependant in any strong sense. The goal surely would be to prove this works and test.

Re: Seeking an idiot's guide to etcupdate/mergemaster

I am probably alone in this but I find the CVS style markers in the update diffs intensely confusing. Given many merges are large blocks, its almost impossible to keep context flitting about in vi to find the old/new insertions. The odd thing is that post edit, the view you get afterward i

Re: Speed improvements in ZFS

Not wanting to hijack threads I am interested if any of this can translate back up tree and make Linux ZFS faster. And, if there are simple sysctl tuning worth trying in large (tb) memory model pre 14 FreeBSD systems with slow zfs. Older freebsd alas.

Re: Removing fdisk and bsdlabel (legacy partition tools)

I would agree personally, to moving to ports (eg ports/sysutils) with a DEPRECATED in the DESCR or something, or better yet a Make invokation event to say "superceded, here is how to proceed against advice") or something. -G On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:30 AM Warner Losh wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24,

debug a BCM43224 bwn WiFi in a Lenovo laptop, ALPHA3

I have a Lenovo E420 with the BCM43224. FreeBSD-13-ALPHA3, locally compiled kernel. (I have built the requisite WIFI kernel with the PHY_N and DEBUG options) and now, I can see a bwn0 instance with a blob loaded. But when I configure it into rc.conf as the wlan0 instance and do wpa_supplicant.con

DRM and higher screen resolutions on older hardware for current/13-ALPHA3

I have a Lenovo Edge 420 with the ATI/Radeon graphics card. The "this .ko, that blob" thing is really confusing if you've been out of the loop for a while, and with older hardwar (its 8+ year old laptop) its not impossible its fallen off the curve of available .ko drivers. Anyone have any practic

Re: DRM and higher screen resolutions on older hardware for current/13-ALPHA3

Thanks. That's most helpful! compiling now "lets see what happens" -G On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 5:06 PM Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > > On Feb 5, 2021, at 6:09 AM, George Michaelson wrote: > > > > I have a Lenovo Edge 420 with the ATI/Radeon graphics card.

Re: zpool import: "The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data" but zpool status -x: "all pools are healthy" and zpool destroy: "no such pool"

GPT has a back-of-disk structure. Is the problem here that wiping GPT only at front, leaves emergency state at back which is detected, before the ZFS initialisation system can decide you don't want to use that?