Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Rui Paulo
On 29 Jan 2009, at 17:51, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 29/01/2009 19:17 Rui Paulo said the following: On 29 Jan 2009, at 11:47, Andriy Gapon wrote: INTR_FILTER - what does it do? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt code. INTR_FILTER allows you to skip the

cc -m32 (was Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2009-01-29 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:44:00 +1100 Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2009-Jan-28 11:24:21 -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: > >On a mac, cc -m64 builds 64 bit binaries and cc -m32 builds > >32 bit binaries. The following script makes it as easy to do > >so on a 64 bit FreeBSD -- at least on the few programs

Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Rui Paulo
On 29 Jan 2009, at 11:47, Andriy Gapon wrote: INTR_FILTER - what does it do? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt code. INTR_FILTER allows you to skip the FILTER+ITHREAD headache. See dev/asmc/asmc.c for an example. -- Rui Paulo __

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-28 11:24:21 -0800, Bakul Shah wrote: >On a mac, cc -m64 builds 64 bit binaries and cc -m32 builds >32 bit binaries. The following script makes it as easy to do >so on a 64 bit FreeBSD -- at least on the few programs I >tried. Ideally the right magic needs to be folded in gcc's >built

Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/01/2009 19:17 Rui Paulo said the following: > > On 29 Jan 2009, at 11:47, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> INTR_FILTER - what does it do? >> It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt >> code. > > INTR_FILTER allows you to skip the FILTER+ITHREAD headache. Could you

Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Rui Paulo
On 29 Jan 2009, at 11:47, Andriy Gapon wrote: INTR_FILTER - what does it do? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt code. INTR_FILTER allows you to skip the FILTER+ITHREAD headache. See dev/asmc/asmc.c for an example. -- Rui Paulo __

Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight

2009-01-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ed Schouten (from Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:43:09 +0100): * Daniel Lannstrom wrote: > I'm asking which method will be the best to interface the driver with > userland applications? You might want to make it a character device driver. And write a small userland control program. Sysctl isn't

Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight

2009-01-29 Thread Ed Schouten
* Alexander Leidinger wrote: > So you want that either > - a daemon running as root is written which listens to user >requests to set the backlight via sysctl > or > - a SUID root program is written that sets the backlight >via sysctl > instead of > - a character device with appropriate

Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 29/01/2009 14:55 Ed Schouten said the following: > * Andriy Gapon wrote: >> INTR_FILTER - what does it do? >> It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt >> code. > > Not sure, but I think I was once told that FreeBSD has a `two level' > interrupt handling scheme,

Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Ed Schouten
* Andriy Gapon wrote: > INTR_FILTER - what does it do? > It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt > code. Not sure, but I think I was once told that FreeBSD has a `two level' interrupt handling scheme, where the filter is invoked directly to only figure out whether

INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-29 Thread Andriy Gapon
INTR_FILTER - what does it do? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt code. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any