Using kld functions in other kld's?

2005-04-05 Thread Mrzh
I'm trying to access one kld's functions from another kld in FreeBSD 5.3. Even though I have non-static functions in my first loaded kld, subsequent kldload of another kld that refers to those symbols gives me "link_elf: symbol blahblahblah undefined". I was able to do this kind of thing in FreeB

Re: My experience with cpufreq in -STABLE

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Behrens
Bruno Ducrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 4 Apr 2005 19:17: > You may start looking at src/usr.sbin/powerd in -current, and improve it > a bit? The actual algorithm used in powerd may need some rework IMHO. Which problems do you see? My comments: 1. If the frequency is raised it should not go do

Re: How the experts do it? (kernel dev)

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:37:22AM +, klowd9 - wrote: > I would like to setup a virtual machine for developing and debugging the > kernel, perhaps with the possibility of debugging from the host os to the > guest system. > Which software would best suite this: vmware, bochs, qemu ? > Keep in

RE: CVSup and Attic files

2005-04-05 Thread John Polstra
On 05-Apr-2005 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse > all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right > all of a sudden. > > My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd > to handle INDEX issues

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Scott Long
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Vladimir Terziev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD? The ICH6R is an Intel MatrixRAID chipset and is fully supported in -CURRENT. DES ICH6R is just like ICH5R in that it's just a dumb ATA/SATA control

CVSup and Attic files

2005-04-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right all of a sudden. My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd to handle INDEX issues, since I can't think of anything else that would ma

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Vladimir Terziev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support > in FreeBSD? The ICH6R is an Intel MatrixRAID chipset and is fully supported in -CURRENT. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ATA security commands, bug in atacontrol

2005-04-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Craig Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, wouldn't setting the password on a system in which the BIOS offers > no ATA security support render the system unbootable? The BIOS would > be unable to read the boot sector without first unlocking the disk... You are assuming that there is only one

Boot0 on boot floppies and 2.88meg drives/controllers

2005-04-05 Thread Alex Burke
Hi, I seem to be haivng an odd issue on a couple of my machines here. This occurs with both 5.3-RELEASE and 4.11-RELEASE. Wasnt sure which list to post to, apologies if I chose badly. I downloaded the boot floppies, but upon putting it in the mahcine the \ symbol swirled maybe once, then a pause

Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-05 Thread ray
I'm doing some tweaking on my kernel tonight (FreeBSD 5.3) and I'm trying to get a better grip on what the following lines do and what impact they could have to the overall performance of a server: options SHMALL= options SHMMAX= options SHMMAXPGS= options SHMMIN= o

Re: Probing Devices

2005-04-05 Thread Alexey Vesnin
Stas Myasnikov wrote: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:55:46 -0700 (PDT), Srinivasa R Yarrakonda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> писал(а): I am trying to install FreeBSD on the second hard disk of my windows PC. I have burned the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso onto a CD. When I restart the computer it reads the boot CDROM and

Re: C programming question

2005-04-05 Thread Dunceor .
Since freebsd-hackers also was included in the cc list in the first mail I guess the port exist in FreeBSD. On Apr 5, 2005 10:45 AM, Alexander von Gernler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-04 20:55]: > > The cdecl command (ports/devel/cutils) is good as decodin

Re: Probing Devices

2005-04-05 Thread Stas Myasnikov
Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:55:46 -0700 (PDT), Srinivasa R Yarrakonda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> писал(а): I am trying to install FreeBSD on the second hard disk of my windows PC. I have burned the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso onto a CD. When I restart the computer it reads the boot CDROM and then reports "Probing

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-05 Thread John Pettitt
Justin Bennett wrote: > All, > > I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a > viable option for creating SANs? > > I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production > FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. > > Any other ideas for a disk to dis

Re: C programming question

2005-04-05 Thread gilles chehade
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:43:21AM -0700, Matt wrote: > I need some help understanding some C code. > > int (*if_ioctl) >(struct ifnet *, int, caddr_t); > > int (*if_watchdog) >(int); > > Can someone break down these declarations (if that's what they are)? Is > this a

Re: C programming question

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I need some help understanding some C code. > > int (*if_ioctl) > (struct ifnet *, int, caddr_t); > > int (*if_watchdog) > (int); > > Can someone break down these declarations (if that's what they are)? Is > thi

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Braniss
> All, > > I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable > option for creating SANs? > refrase question. > I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production > FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. > for one, it depends on how deep are

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi hackers, could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD ? I have plans to buy a machine which motherboard has ICH6 SATA RAID integrated and i want to know whether i will be able to run FreeBSD on it. The hardware part is fu

ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Vladimir Terziev
Hi hackers, could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD ? I have plans to buy a machine which motherboard has ICH6 SATA RAID integrated and i want to know whether i will be able to run FreeBSD on it. Thanks in advance!