Re: I need reply in Embedded FreeBSD Kernel Theme

2010-06-23 Thread Mohammed Farrag
hi sorry for being late in reply but I had some problems in the last week. I hope u still remeber what I was talking about :) @chargen Thanx for ur reply. Embedded computer systems permeate all aspects of our daily lives. Alarm clocks, coffee makers, digital watches, cell phones, and automobiles ar

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 (solved)

2010-06-23 Thread Ted Faber
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 08:45:31AM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:03:45AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > > I have to admit that I'm more than a little surprised that this > > problem does not affect modules that in src, but maybe that's because > > I don't know all that much about

Re: Avoiding sysctl at program startup using ELF aux vector (was: concurrent sysctl implementation)

2010-06-23 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Kostik, This patch seems to have faded out from memory. Is it possible to go forward and commit it? Thanks, Regards. On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:29:16AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > Below is the prototype that seems to work for me both with patched and > old rtld on i386. Patch also contai

Re: loader prompt: list / on other device

2010-06-23 Thread Domagoj S.
2010/6/23 Eugene Grosbein : > On 23.06.2010 23:03, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: >> I've escaped to loader prompt: >> Current device is disk0s3a, from which this loader is running. >> >> My USB stick is device1 and device1s2a is UFS /, on which I would like to >> reach some file or simply list direc

Re: loader prompt: list / on other device

2010-06-23 Thread mdf
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM, wrote: > I've escaped to loader prompt: > Current device is disk0s3a, from which this loader is running. > > My USB stick is device1 and device1s2a is UFS /, on which I would like to > reach some file or simply list directory. IIRC, there is no way to do this (bu

RE: loader prompt: list / on other device

2010-06-23 Thread Andrew Duane
You *should* be able to use device1s2a:/ as a syntax, but I noticed a bug in our old loader code that parses devicenames like that where it wouldn't work correctly with unit numbers. I don't know if that bug is still around, but setting currdev did work around it. /Andrew > -Original

Re: loader prompt: list / on other device

2010-06-23 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On 23.06.2010 23:03, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > I've escaped to loader prompt: > Current device is disk0s3a, from which this loader is running. > > My USB stick is device1 and device1s2a is UFS /, on which I would like to > reach some file or simply list directory. > > Syntax? I guess, you

loader prompt: list / on other device

2010-06-23 Thread rank1seeker
I've escaped to loader prompt: Current device is disk0s3a, from which this loader is running. My USB stick is device1 and device1s2a is UFS /, on which I would like to reach some file or simply list directory. Syntax? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org m

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Ted Faber
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:03:45AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > I have to admit that I'm more than a little surprised that this > problem does not affect modules that in src, but maybe that's because > I don't know all that much about FreeBSD's build infrastructure. Are > the src modules being linke

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/06/2010 18:03 Ryan Stone said the following: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> Which also brings the question - what arch(s) is affected? >> I tested on amd64. > > This should explain it. It looks to me like i386 uses kern/link_elf.c > as its linker, while amd64 use

Re: Are POSIX mqueues supposed to be functional on FreeBSD?

2010-06-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 06/21/10 02:25, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> For whatever reason my source tree wasn't prebuilt, so I reran >> buildkernel and everything was fine once again. > > So, do the tests pass now? :) Not 100%, but that might be a problem with the tes

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Ryan Stone
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Which also brings the question - what arch(s) is affected? > I tested on amd64. This should explain it. It looks to me like i386 uses kern/link_elf.c as its linker, while amd64 uses kern/link_elf_obj.c. link_elf.c can only find the sectio

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Ted Faber
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:10:59AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 23/06/2010 10:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: > > I don't dispute that it is found broken in particular environments, I just > > think > > that the analysis could be incorrect. > > Which also brings the question - what arch(s)

Re: Are POSIX mqueues supposed to be functional on FreeBSD?

2010-06-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/21/10 02:25, Garrett Cooper wrote: > For whatever reason my source tree wasn't prebuilt, so I reran > buildkernel and everything was fine once again. So, do the tests pass now? :) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Help with some makefile hackery

2010-06-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Patrick Mahan writes: > My issue is that if there is a build failure at any point, the > status does not seem to be propagated upward. For example, if > the kernel fails to build due to incorrect code, the script > -kernel64.sh stops (verifable by examining the logfile), > however, the make will

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:10:59 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 23/06/2010 10:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: > > I don't dispute that it is found broken in particular environments, I > > just think that the analysis could be incorrect. Ok. > > Which also brings the question - what arch(s) is af

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/06/2010 10:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: > I don't dispute that it is found broken in particular environments, I just > think > that the analysis could be incorrect. Which also brings the question - what arch(s) is affected? I tested on amd64. -- Andriy Gapon ___

Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1

2010-06-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/06/2010 09:52 Hans Petter Selasky said the following: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 08:47:52 Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 23/06/2010 03:38 Hans Petter Selasky said the following: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm creating a new thread on this issue. >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:39:17PM -0400, Ryan Stone w