Re: SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Joseph Koshy
jk> You may need a regular i386 or amd64 PC to run FreeBSD on 'bare metal'. mp> pmc: Unknown Intel CPU. mp> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (hwpmc, 0xc05b0114, 0xc3662094) error 78 mp> It seems, the module can't achieve initalization.. please help ! When the time comes for hooking up your GUI to

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Mike, good day. Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:43:07AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I believe this should be $0x4, as you want to *set* the values, not > get them. Right. > You also need to open the file "/dev/io". I believe that leaving this > file open for anything more than a handful of instructions

boot0 vs XP

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I recently reinstalled Windows XP on my laptop (I barely use it but occasionally it comes in handy :) and when I did the install it made the base drive E (no idea why, and I couldn't see how to change it). Everything proceeds as usual and then I boot a CD to then jump start my system and run bo

Re: can we use disk device for iscsi-target port?

2007-05-30 Thread Mark Foster
Patrick Dung wrote: > It would be great if disk device can be used directly. > > BTW, I have not yet test netbsd with raw disk. > seems someone test on openbsd and it seems working: > http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43960 > Whole disk or slice? I don't think either works at

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Bakul Shah wrote: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex Mk/*.mk what is is ne

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

2007-05-30 Thread Bakul Shah
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long > >felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex > >Mk/*.mk what is is needed is a ports server and a thin C

can we use disk device for iscsi-target port?

2007-05-30 Thread Patrick Dung
Hi This port is from netbsd. I have test it, It is great. I found it seems iscsi-target has to take a file instead of disk devicek (eg. /dev/da1) as the target. Below is my test result: Starting iscsi_target. Reading configuration from `/usr/local/etc/iscsi/targets' target0:rw:0.0.0.0/0 e

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
Open "/dev/io" and you should be able to do what you want. How you do this in assembler, I'll leave to others. Warner ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > >And I have to ask. The hardware has changed a lot since the days of > >DoS, and things that worked then may cause strange results on modern > >hardware. Do you know modern hardware, or are you still using dos-era > >hardware? > > > yes i am aware

Re: SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Arne Schwabe
Mathieu Prevot schrieb: > 2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you >> may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware >> correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a >> regular i386 or amd64 PC to run FreeBSD on 'bare m

Re: SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Harald Servat
2007/5/30, Mathieu Prevot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you > may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware > correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a > regular i386 or amd64 PC to ru

SoC / PMC

2007-05-30 Thread Mathieu Prevot
2007/5/25, Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Do you intend to run FreeBSD under Parallels? If so you may need to check if Parallels emulates PMC hardware correctly. The other emulators do not. You may need a regular i386 or amd64 PC to run FreeBSD on 'bare metal'. I compiled a SMP (seems not

Re: Setting up development environment

2007-05-30 Thread Luiz Otavio Souza
Daniel Molina Wegener escreveu: Hello, Is there any official way to setup a development environment for FreeBSD. I mean, I want to contribute with FreeBSD development. All I know that there is a Developer's Handbook, but what about setting a development environment for FreeBSD-CURRENT and -ST

Re: direct I/O access

2007-05-30 Thread rmgls
>> i am trying to port my old assembler soft for Dos to FreeBSD. > >You have my sympathy. > Thanks, i need it, because its a big deal for me! >> i need to write and read directly to the midi and scsi device. >> when i try something like this i receive a sigbus error >> >> SORRY, i am NOT nor a C