Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS

2010-05-25 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 25/05/2010 13:57, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b): >>> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >>> System halted. Remove device and

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 16:16:10 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > If you must kick groff out, why not "port" plan9 troff which > now does unicode, has 27 macro packages including ms, weighs > in at about 10K lines of C code written by Joe Ossanna, Brian > Kernighan, Ken Thompson, Jaap Akkerhuis & ot

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 26 May 2010 01:21:20 +0300 Eitan Adler wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >> On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! > Roff ha

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread James Butler
On 26/05/10 10:21, Eitan Adler wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. A

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 26 May 2010 at 1:21:20 +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: >> On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> BSD has always  been ab;e to produce it's documentation as part of its >>> build >>> >>> Please keep this true. > > This is what mdocml will be for. I never advocated removing the > u

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 24 May 2010 at 22:43:37 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:17:01PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: >>> I welcome this change, but groff is used for much more than manpages. >>> What happens to pic

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 24 May 2010 at 21:17:01 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > >> Is the thinking that groff has only been in base to support manpages? >> If so, this project makes sense. But even so, some clarification of the >> intent is n

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote: > On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. A lot of people use

New GSoC Student .. Mohammed Farrag

2010-05-25 Thread Mohammed Farrag
Hi all, My name is Mohammed Farrag, Student in the faculty of Computers and Information in Menofeya University, Egypt. I am goona work on New FreeBSD Kernel Theme. Tasks Suggested are : 1. Providing a block diagram of the new embedded freebsd. 2. Determine the functionality of these blocks

New GSoC Student .. Mohammed Farrag

2010-05-25 Thread Mohammed Farrag
Hi all, My name is Mohammed Farrag, Student in the faculty of Computers and Information in Menofeya University, Egypt. I am goona work on New FreeBSD Kernel Theme. Tasks Suggested are : 1. Providing a block diagram of the new embedded freebsd. 2. Determine the functionality of these blocks

Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client

2010-05-25 Thread george+freebsd
OS: FreeBSD post 8.0-RELEASE Firefox: 3.6 Distributed.net client: v2.9103 and later When the distributed.net application is not running, Firefox will start up on my box in less than two seconds. But with the distributed.net application running, the firefox startup slows down painfully, taking no

Re: Exposing Zone Sleeps

2010-05-25 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/2010 10:01, jhell wrote: > On 05/24/2010 18:26, Sean Bruno wrote: >> Find attached a patch against -CURRENT. > >> This update exposes a counter that indicates the number of times that we >> sleep when attempting to allocate a slab from the ke

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
On 5/25/2010 9:52 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. A lot of people use tools from that descendancy as production tools. So? If it isn't a very commo

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/25/10 8:33 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. A lot of people use tools from that descendancy as production tools. So? If it isn't a very commonly used tool and isn't necessary for 99% of c

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Re. half baked proposal to delete groff: If you want to play, play with Linux, which has no tradition of what to expect. BSD by contrast is real Unix, those who've been in Unix business a few decades you know what real Unix is. More than just the toolchain to support make world. Look at Bell bl

Re: select/poll for sockets in kernel space

2010-05-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/25/10 5:55 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 5:02:35 am Dmitry Krivenok wrote: Hello Hackers! I'm developing a module for FreeBSD-8 and encountered the problem with polling sockets. [...] Thanks in advance! P.S. I know about kqueue, but I have to use select/poll is this ta

Re: Exposing Zone Sleeps

2010-05-25 Thread Sean Bruno
> Hi Sean, > > Nice work on this. I applied this to stable/8 r208530 and I am in the > process of compiling the kernel right now. Everything else has built & > runs as expected "i386". Attached is the adjusted patch which was one > modification to the line number for uz_sleeps in sys/vm/uma_int.h.

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Eitan Adler
> No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! > Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. > A lot of people use tools from that descendancy as production tools. So? If it isn't a very commonly used tool and isn't necessary for 99% of cases I don't seem the harm of removi

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:06:58PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > The use of (g)roff for anything but man pages is practically non-existent. > > False. Its a production tool used here. > http://berklix.com./associates/ > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/

Re: select/poll for sockets in kernel space

2010-05-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 5:02:35 am Dmitry Krivenok wrote: > Hello Hackers! > > I'm developing a module for FreeBSD-8 and encountered the problem with > polling sockets. > I know that FreeBSD-8 kernel provides 3 interfaces for polling > (kern/sys_generic.c): > 1) kern_select > 2) poll > 3) selsocket

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > The use of (g)roff for anything but man pages is practically non-existent. False. Its a production tool used here. http://berklix.com./associates/ http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/#card ( Try .PS card back X3 size All business letters, bills, busine

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> I'll be working on replacing groff with mdocml (mandoc) in the system base No. Do not remove groff or associated tools from /usr/src ! Roff has been in Unix /usr/src since '77 or earlier. A lot of people use tools from that descendancy as production tools. However if you just mean "I'll

Re: Exposing Zone Sleeps

2010-05-25 Thread jhell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/2010 18:26, Sean Bruno wrote: > Find attached a patch against -CURRENT. > > This update exposes a counter that indicates the number of times that we > sleep when attempting to allocate a slab from the keg. In other words, > the number of tim

Re: Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS

2010-05-25 Thread Rui Paulo
On 22 May 2010, at 13:27, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b): >> 104-Unsupported wireless network device detected. >> System halted. Remove device and restart. >> >> The system boots if I turn

patch for /usr/src/usr.bin/fmt/ (not 8 bit clean) for German & French

2010-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Hackers@ Problem: /usr/src/usr.bin/fmt/fmt.c is not 8 bit clean. (ie French or German etc text with accents in gets broken) Alternate Solutions: Solution 1: Discard "& 0x7f checks. Allow pretty much all 8 bit as a printable. This would need some patching. It might freak out some from

select/poll for sockets in kernel space

2010-05-25 Thread Dmitry Krivenok
Hello Hackers! I'm developing a module for FreeBSD-8 and encountered the problem with polling sockets. I know that FreeBSD-8 kernel provides 3 interfaces for polling (kern/sys_generic.c): 1) kern_select 2) poll 3) selsocket I cannot use first two interfaces because I have an array of sockets (str