Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Hmm, the current approach doesn't look all that "right" to me, because we are > :retrying operation even though the upper-layer code that initiated it was > :already notified about the failure (e.g. received EIO), so that it should not > :assume that the data was actually w

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-18 Thread Maxim Sobolev
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:35:54AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> : > :> :There is a very easy way to trigger the problem: insert blank floppy > :> :... > :> > :> Your patch looks slightly incomplete to me, but the concept is reasonable. > :> The BIO_NORETRY test that sets B_INVAL sh

vmware3, any one got even sorta working?

2002-10-18 Thread wolf
I have search the web trying to find info on vmware3 and FreeBSD as the host os. I noticed a post where someone said they got the modules working, but were having problems with the binary part. Any progress? Looking for beta testers? I upgraded my system to a Duron, and now all my guest os's

Re: kernel + mfsroot article review

2002-10-18 Thread David Yeske
MD_ROOT_SIZE is only needed for write_mfs_in_kernel. When write_mfs_in_kernel was removed the code that used it was not though. I don't think it is still being used though. A couple of files still reference it: src/sys/dev/md/md.c has ifdefs for it, src/release/Makefile still compiles it on

Re: kernel + mfsroot article review

2002-10-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:42:01PM -0700, David Yeske wrote: > MD_ROOT_SIZE is only needed for write_mfs_in_kernel. When write_mfs_in_kernel was >removed the ok, sorry for the confusion, i misread the patch. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: kernel + mfsroot article review

2002-10-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
from your patch i am a bit unclear, do you still depend on having MD_ROOT_SIZE or you can get rid of it ? cheers luigi On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:56:11PM -0700, David Yeske wrote: > I am writing an article about a replacement for write_mfs_in_kernel, and I wanted to >get some > f

kernel + mfsroot article review

2002-10-18 Thread David Yeske
I am writing an article about a replacement for write_mfs_in_kernel, and I wanted to get some feedback on the article and the patch... http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~dyeske/freebsd/article.html It would be very helpful if people could download the kernel and boot it and give me feedback. I have

A problem with restoring from Solaris ufsdumps (fwd)

2002-10-18 Thread Tony Finch
Can anyone here answer the implied question about recent BSD dump and restore at the end of Chris's post below? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ FASTNET: NORTHERLY 4 OR 5 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 THEN SOUTHEASTERLY 4 OR 5. SHOWERS. GOOD. --- start of forwarded message --

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> : :> :There is a very easy way to trigger the problem: insert blank floppy :> :... :> :> Your patch looks slightly incomplete to me, but the concept is reasonable. :> The BIO_NORETRY test that sets B_INVAL should probably be done in :> brelse(), not in bufwait(). It is the code in

Re: X11 fonts?

2002-10-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 16 at 15:43, Julian Elischer spoke: > ctwm fails to find any fonts > > however xfontsel CAN find those fonts Maybe you need to recall mkfontdir. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: tracing exec system call

2002-10-18 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:13:24PM -0400, Ramkumar Chinchani wrote: +> +> What would be the best way to *capture* the execv system call at its entry point +> from user space? ptrace()? +> +> What would be a good way to inspect the command line args to execv *after* the +> path, etc., has been res

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-18 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Hi folks, > : > :I noticed that FreeBSD buf/bio subsystem has one very annoying problem > :- once the write request is ejected into it, and write operation > :failed, there seemingly no way valid to tell the layer to drop the > :buffer. Instead, it retries the attempt ov

Re: Sil vs. SiI

2002-10-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 18 at 11:39, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > It seems Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > I have an Enmic installed which reports > > atapci1: port [...] > > > > Is this reported literally by the controller or is it derived from a > > table lookup? > > >From a table, seems I could use better glasses :)

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi folks, : :I noticed that FreeBSD buf/bio subsystem has one very annoying problem :- once the write request is ejected into it, and write operation :failed, there seemingly no way valid to tell the layer to drop the :buffer. Instead, it retries the attempt over and over again, until :reboot, eve

Re: IP resolving

2002-10-18 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:00:26PM -0600, Scott Carmichael wrote: > Can someone help me here? Is there a code change I can make somewhere? > > Please CC me on any replies, as I am not subscribed to -net or -hackers. -net removed. -hackers left (although this might be more of a -questions thread).

Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-18 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi folks, I noticed that FreeBSD buf/bio subsystem has one very annoying problem - once the write request is ejected into it, and write operation failed, there seemingly no way valid to tell the layer to drop the buffer. Instead, it retries the attempt over and over again, until reboot, even thoug

Re: vmware2 and simd instructions

2002-10-18 Thread wolf
Please enlighten us. I would like to have more than ancient stuff running in my vmware2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to lie to vmware2 about the processor installed? or a patch to vmmon to have it lie to the guest os about the processor installed? yes 17.10.2002; 19:32:37 [SorAlx

Re: vmware2 and simd instructions

2002-10-18 Thread wolf
Please enlighten us. I would like to have more than ancient stuff running in my vmware2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyway to lie to vmware2 about the processor installed? or a patch to vmmon to have it lie to the guest os about the processor installed? yes 17.10.2002; 19:32:37 [SorAlx

Re: Netgraph TCP/IP

2002-10-18 Thread Steve Tremblett
+ Archie Cobbs wrote: | Are you intending to have this hook into the normal FreeBSD TCP/IP | stack or be truly standalone? I read your question as the latter but | others seem to read it as the former. I am very much a babe in the woods at this point. I have no plan aside from reading as much

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> The bktr supports the 848 family chipset as I recall. I have used the > Xv extensions made for the GATOS and KATOS projects. They are Linux > projects, but do some work on FreeBSD as well. > > Almost a year ago I had it working with an ATI Wonder which also has an > BT878 chipset. Yes.. I hav

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-18 Thread Peter J. Blok
The bktr supports the 848 family chipset as I recall. I have used the Xv extensions made for the GATOS and KATOS projects. They are Linux projects, but do some work on FreeBSD as well. Almost a year ago I had it working with an ATI Wonder which also has an BT878 chipset. Peter On Friday 18 Oct

Re: Sil vs. SiI

2002-10-18 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Hanspeter Roth wrote: > On Oct 11 at 09:01, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > > > The Sil 680 does support ATAPI DMA, I'll need to dig out the older > > I have an Enmic installed which reports > atapci1: port [...] > > Is this reported literally by the controller or is it derived from a > tabl

Sil vs. SiI

2002-10-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 11 at 09:01, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > The Sil 680 does support ATAPI DMA, I'll need to dig out the older I have an Enmic installed which reports atapci1: port [...] Is this reported literally by the controller or is it derived from a table lookup? It seems to me that on http://www.sili

Re: Sil 0648/0649/0680 supporting DMA for ATAPI?

2002-10-18 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 11 at 12:32, Soeren Schmidt spoke: > Yes, if its a Sil 0680 chip then it'll work, the one I've got > is a Sunix SNX 3700, its a feature of the chip not the card > (unless the maker really screwed up something) An ENMIC ATA133-RAID Controller which also is based on th Sil 0680 chip ha