Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:13 PM +0100 12/7/03, Blaz Zupan wrote: In the last couple of days I've been fighting with a evaluation IBM BladeCenter. [...] My company would really like to deploy the Bladecenter as it is otherwise a very solid solution for our problem. But 99.9% of our servers are FreeBSD and the above prob

Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Dec 07, Mathew Kanner wrote: > > The way I see it, FreeBSD needs serious hacking to have > > multiple concurrent keyboards support without serious hacking. > > ugh, you know what I mean. With mouse support, we have a layer of indirection

Re: Sharing data between user space and kernel

2003-12-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Anand Subramanian wrote: > A look at the copyin() code in the kernel reveals that all the kernel > needs to do to access the data(address space) of a user process is Note that the copyin/copyout implementat is machine-dependent (MD) and so while this is true on i386, it may n

Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, David Gilbert wrote: DG> While keyboard support on FreeBSD should be fixed, you might want to DG> take a look at ironsystems (ironsystem.com) offerings. They have DG> several different bladeservers from 8 to 16 nodes per chassy. In DG> particular, they have a 16-in-2-U (WOW).

Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread David Gilbert
> "Blaz" == Blaz Zupan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Blaz> In the last couple of days I've been fighting with a evaluation Blaz> IBM BladeCenter. For those that don't know, it's a 7U rackmount Blaz> box with 14 slots that can take one PC each. Blaz> http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/blades/ W

Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Dec 07, Mathew Kanner wrote: > The way I see it, FreeBSD needs serious hacking to have > multiple concurrent keyboards support without serious hacking. ugh, you know what I mean. -- We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are st

Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Dec 07, Blaz Zupan wrote: [ ... snip ...] > > You could stick a kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd2 in rc.local or > > something similiar. Or you could try (warning, wild guess) the > > following in the boot loader > > > > set hint.sc.2.at=isa > > set hint.sc.2.flags=0x200 > > Sure, I'm usin

Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Blaz Zupan
> I'm curious as to the output of lsdev from the loader. Though > I doubt I can help you. I'll mail it to you tomorrow when I'm at the office. > You could stick a kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd2 in rc.local or > something similiar. Or you could try (warning, wild guess) the > following in t

Sharing data between user space and kernel

2003-12-07 Thread Anand Subramanian
A look at the copyin() code in the kernel reveals that all the kernel needs to do to access the data(address space) of a user process is 1. Get the current thread, which I saw is done using the PCPU_GET macro. So I suppose this is always preserved upon a system call. 2. Set the segment regis

Re: Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Mathew Kanner
Hello Blaz, On Dec 07, Blaz Zupan wrote: > 1. No FreeBSD version boots from CD on this box. Tried with 4.x and 5.x. > Both complain that they can't find their own boot device and don't know how to > load the kernel. There are some signs that booting from any USB connected > CDROM on any hardware i

FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.1 Hangs on Install

2003-12-07 Thread Thor Anderson
FreeBSD hangs without errors early in the install process on my computer. I have downloaded and tested the CD ISO files for version 4.9 as well as 4.6.2 (with intent of upgrading) and neither appears to boot. In both cases, my computer completes POST, accesses the CD drive and hangs without an

Does indent(1) have a KNF mode?

2003-12-07 Thread Steve Kargl
Does indent(1) have a KNF mode? If not, does anyone have/know a set of command line switches that best approximates KNF? -- Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Reward for fixing keyboard support in FreeBSD, apply within

2003-12-07 Thread Blaz Zupan
In the last couple of days I've been fighting with a evaluation IBM BladeCenter. For those that don't know, it's a 7U rackmount box with 14 slots that can take one PC each. http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/blades/ All the PC's share a single CD, floppy and the builtin KVM. CD, floppy and the KV

Explicit Congestion Notification

2003-12-07 Thread Mark
Hello, Someone on the freebsd-questions list suggested I ask my question on the hackers list. So here goes. If this is the wrong place, then you have my apologies. I am looking for a way to enable Explicit Congestion Notification for TCP on FreeBSD 4.7R (IPv4). And google is really not very helpf