Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you are >> booting yoiur machine (you kno

Re: How would I make this work in RELENG_7

2007-12-21 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I have a PDA smart phone that I would like to use as a wireless modem > on my laptop > > someone from OpenBSD helped me get it committed to OpenBSD 's Tree > > would someone help me with a similar patch for FreeBSD I don't have any commit bit, but you can try [1] locally

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2007-12-21 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:11:24AM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:40:34PM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote: > > >The default setting of the x87 floating point control word on the i386 > > >port is 0x127F. Among other things, this value se

How would I make this work in RELENG_7

2007-12-21 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
I have a PDA smart phone that I would like to use as a wireless modem on my laptop someone from OpenBSD helped me get it committed to OpenBSD 's Tree would someone help me with a similar patch for FreeBSD here is an old post that I made http://www.nabble.com/Alltel-PPC6700-Wireless-Modem-td1249

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2007-12-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Carl Shapiro wrote: On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe this is an oversight. See the thread beginning http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html Thanks for the pointer into the -stable mailing list. The incorrect precision control

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2007-12-21 Thread Bakul Shah
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:40:34PM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote: > >The default setting of the x87 floating point control word on the i386 > >port is 0x127F. Among other things, this value sets the precision > >control to double precision. The default settin

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2007-12-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Carl Shapiro wrote: > On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe this is an oversight. See the thread beginning > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html > > Thanks for the pointer into the -st

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2007-12-21 Thread Carl Shapiro
On 12/20/07, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe this is an oversight. See the thread beginning > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/037947.html Thanks for the pointer into the -stable mailing list. The incorrect precision control bits is a serious qu

diskless and the 21st. century

2007-12-21 Thread Danny Braniss
Hi, Being a great fan of diskless/dataless hosts, I'm always looking for ways to reduce the administration 'overhead'. One issue is the number of different /(root) needed - one for each platform/os-version at least. Another issue is the particular configuration of a host, most of it can be