Re: nForce MCP network driver - working

2003-09-30 Thread Peter Wemm
Q wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the final stages of porting the NVidia Linux nForce MCP network > driver to FreeBSD-5.1 and am after some experienced users/developers > with access to this hardware to do some testing to find out what breaks, > and what doesn't work. My driver makes use of the Linux nvn

Re: kern/50216: kernel panic on 5.0-current when use ipfw2 with dynamic rules

2003-09-30 Thread Kang Liu
I reproduced it on the latest 5.1current. Here is the backtrace: # GNU gdb 5.2.1 (FreeBSD) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Ty

Custom installworld

2003-09-30 Thread James Howard
It's sometimes necessary to have a set of custom scripts run as part of the installation routine (possibly security changes, possibly local customizations). Is there a hook in the makefiles which would allow local functions to be run? What about generalizing this to work for most common (buildwor

IPFW

2003-09-30 Thread LiFeHosting Internet
hello there, I was thinking you have to add some thing about the limiting rules some more control about the way it makes the dynamic rules like in allow tcp from any to any 21,22,80 limit dst-port 50 this would make a dynamic rules to limit each port to 50 but what if I want to control this to l

Re: USB2.0 external hub and ehci question

2003-09-30 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:26:33AM +0200, Barry Bouwsma wrote: > [Drop hostname part of IPv6-only address above to obtain IPv4-capable e-mail, > or just drop me from the recipients and I'll catch up from the archives] > > > Hallo Hackers, I suppose I should post this to -current as the code in >

Re: user malloc from kernel

2003-09-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:04:05PM -0700, Brian O'Shea wrote: > --- Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [actually, Pawel wrote this:] > > > Here you got sample kernel module which do this: > > > > > > http://garage.freebsd.pl/usmalloc.tgz > > > http://garage.freebsd.pl/usmalloc.README [a

Re: user malloc from kernel

2003-09-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:56:13PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > +> I mean, won't the application's memory manager attempt to allocate the > +> next chunk of memory right over the region that you have stolen with > +> this brk(2) invocation? Thus, when the application

Re: user malloc from kernel

2003-09-30 Thread Terry Lambert
earthman wrote: > how to allocate some memory chunk > in user space memory from kernel code? > how to do it correctly? If your intent is to allocate a chunk of memory which is shared between your kernel and a single process in user space, the normal way of doing this is to allocate the memory to a

Re: has anyone installed 5.1 from a SCSI CD?

2003-09-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:14:25PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > >BTW, I have another related issue too: since at least 4.7 > >all the disk device nodes have charcater device entries in /dev. > > 'block' vs 'character' has nothing to do with random or sequential > access and