Re: buffer cache question

2000-06-27 Thread Assar Westerlund
Marius Bendiksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the following code, from /sys/kern/vfs_bio.c : bread(), it appears to > me that it is possible for a null pointer to be deferenced? > > struct buf *bp; > > bp = getblk(vp, blkno, size, 0, 0); > *bpp = bp; > > /* i

mbuf re-write(s): v 0.2: request-for-comments

2000-06-27 Thread Bosko Milekic
Hello, I just added a MEXTADD() routine to the [now getting bigger] mbuf re-write patch, as well as fixed and changed a few little things here and there (once again). Thus, so-called "version 2" of the diff is again available: http://www.technokratis.com/code/mbuf/ This

Re: Tigon firmware...

2000-06-27 Thread Shih-Nan Huang
Hi Joy, Current Tigon firmware utilizes a feature provided by the DMA write engine to update the receive buffer consumer automatically. If the TG_DMA_STATE_UPDATE_RX_BUF_CONS bit (b19) is set in the DMA write state register for a DMA operation, the DMA write engine will update the receive buffer

buffer cache question

2000-06-27 Thread Marius Bendiksen
In the following code, from /sys/kern/vfs_bio.c : bread(), it appears to me that it is possible for a null pointer to be deferenced? struct buf *bp; bp = getblk(vp, blkno, size, 0, 0); *bpp = bp; /* if not found in cache, do some I/O */ if ((bp->b_flags &

Re: ieee1394 driver

2000-06-27 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> > Someone asked at the USENIX BOF about the status of ieee1394 driver > for FreeBSD. For those who want to play with DV cameras, a set of > tools to transmit DV streasms over IP is available from > http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/ > > It includes the ieee1394 driver presented at the last year

Tigon firmware...

2000-06-27 Thread Joy Ganguly
hi all, I have been looking into the Tigon firmware code and i am totalyy puzzled about this: there is no place in the code where trp->local_mem_conf.rx_buf_consumer is incremented. (except in h_mac_rx_comp_nohost() which is not called) The tigon documentation says that it should be incremented b

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-27 Thread David Scheidt
On 26 Jun 2000, Chris Shenton wrote: :I was considering this for a project I developed: web up/download of :lots of large files. I was using MySQL and some of the folks on that :list recommended not storing large files in the DB: even though the :disk consumption is the same, if it's in a DB you

Re: Default (x86) floating point precision

2000-06-27 Thread Steve Kargl
Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Oddly, this causes problems with GNAT (Ada is a high level language) > because it wants/expects 64-bit extended precision. It seems as if > GNAT for linux-i386 also uses 64-bit extended precision. The only > other GNAT i386 platform that doesn't use 64-bit precision is

Re: Default (x86) floating point precision

2000-06-27 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Steve Kargl wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > Oddly, this causes problems with GNAT (Ada is a high level language) > > because it wants/expects 64-bit extended precision. It seems as if > > GNAT for linux-i386 also uses 64-bit extended precision. The only > > other GNA

Re: PCI Specification !!!

2000-06-27 Thread Mark Tinguely
> is the PCI Specification avaialable on the web? i tried a couple of search > engines, couldn't find it. The PCI Specification is published by the PCI Special Interest Group. The PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.0 cost about $20-25 a few years ago, and I see from the web order page:

Re: cvs update failed

2000-06-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > John Polstra wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > the problem I have, is that, when I run "cvs -t update -r RELENG_4", > > > > I g

Default (x86) floating point precision

2000-06-27 Thread Daniel Eischen
I've noticed that we change the default setting for floating point precision from extended precision (64-bit) to double precision (53-bit). The comment in npx.h says: /* * The hardware default control word for i387's and later coprocessors is * 0x37F, giving: * *round to nearest

PCI Specification !!!

2000-06-27 Thread Mohana Krishna Penumetcha
hi, is the PCI Specification avaialable on the web? i tried a couple of search engines, couldn't find it. --mohan Telecom R&D , FAC-D, SAS ph:- 5281461 x3078 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

ieee1394 driver

2000-06-27 Thread Kenjiro Cho
Someone asked at the USENIX BOF about the status of ieee1394 driver for FreeBSD. For those who want to play with DV cameras, a set of tools to transmit DV streasms over IP is available from http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/ It includes the ieee1394 driver presented at the last year's freenix. -