Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Alexander Motin
On 01/23/12 20:06, Devin Teske wrote: I have a Parallels virtual machine and it runs FreeBSD 4 through 8 just swimmingly. However, in RELENG_9 I notice something different. My once "ad0" is now showing up as "ada0". However, something even stranger is that devfs is providing both ad0 family devi

RE: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: Alexander Motin [mailto:mav...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexander > Motin > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 3:52 PM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9 > > On 01/23/12 20:06, D

Speeding up the loader(8).

2012-01-23 Thread Edward Tomasz Napierała
Some time ago I've spent some time on trying to speed up loading modules by the loader(8). Result can be found at: http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/fast-loader-3.diff This patch solves three issues: 1. As it is now, the code in biosdisk.c tries very hard to split reasonably sized (up to 64k

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Ed Maste wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:32:59AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>     It's better to be methodical and delete all of the partitions and >> create the table from scratch. I've run into reproducible cases in the >> past where just doing gpart de

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:32:59AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > It's better to be methodical and delete all of the partitions and > create the table from scratch. I've run into reproducible cases in the > past where just doing gpart destroy -F for instance [on 9.0-BETA1+ > media] didn't work

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 10:15 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Devin Teske >> wrote: >> > I have a Parallels virtual machine and it runs FreeBSD 4 through 8 just >> > swimmingly. >> > >> > However, in RELENG_9 I

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 10:15 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Devin Teske > wrote: > > I have a Parallels virtual machine and it runs FreeBSD 4 through 8 just > > swimmingly. > > > > However, in RELENG_9 I notice something different. My once "ad0" is now > > showin

RE: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: Ian Lepore [mailto:free...@damnhippie.dyndns.org] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:17 AM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9 > > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 10:06 -0800, Devin

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:yaneg...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:16 AM >> To: Devin Teske >> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in R

RE: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Devin Teske
> -Original Message- > From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:yaneg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:16 AM > To: Devin Teske > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9 > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Devin Teske

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 10:06 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: > I have a Parallels virtual machine and it runs FreeBSD 4 through 8 just > swimmingly. > > However, in RELENG_9 I notice something different. My once "ad0" is now > showing > up as "ada0". However, something even stranger is that devfs is pro

Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Devin Teske wrote: > I have a Parallels virtual machine and it runs FreeBSD 4 through 8 just > swimmingly. > > However, in RELENG_9 I notice something different. My once "ad0" is now > showing > up as "ada0". However, something even stranger is that devfs is prov

Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9

2012-01-23 Thread Devin Teske
I have a Parallels virtual machine and it runs FreeBSD 4 through 8 just swimmingly. However, in RELENG_9 I notice something different. My once "ad0" is now showing up as "ada0". However, something even stranger is that devfs is providing both ad0 family devices AND ada0 family devices. What's wor

Re: Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition

2012-01-23 Thread Andrey Fesenko
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Andrey Fesenko wrote: >> >> System install for manual http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot >> only + freebsd-ufs (ada0p2) >>> >>> uname -a >> >> FreeBSD beastie.mydomain.local 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 >> r229812: Mon

Re: Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition

2012-01-23 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Andrey Fesenko wrote: System install for manual http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot only + freebsd-ufs (ada0p2) uname -a FreeBSD beastie.mydomain.local 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r229812: Mon Jan 9 19:08:10 MSK 2012 andrey@beastie.mydomain.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/W_BOOK

Root on ZFS & GPT and boot to ufs partition

2012-01-23 Thread Andrey Fesenko
System install for manual http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot only + freebsd-ufs (ada0p2) > uname -a FreeBSD beastie.mydomain.local 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r229812: Mon Jan 9 19:08:10 MSK 2012 andrey@beastie.mydomain.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/W_BOOK amd64 > gpart show =>

Re[2]: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-23 Thread geoffrey levand
No, no hard reset but graceful shutdown/reboot. regards 23 января 2012, 06:31 от Julian Elischer : > On 1/22/12 2:19 AM, geoffrey levand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how would i reboot/halt the system from a kernel module ? > > the answer is "that depends".. > > do you want to sync the disks first?

Re[2]: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-23 Thread geoffrey levand
I'm implementing power button functionality on PS3. I want FreeBSD to shutdown when i press the button like on Linux. regards 23 января 2012, 07:26 от Andrew Davis : > >do you want to sync the disks first? of just hard reset? > > Why would anyone ever want to do that, you're a kernel mod, if yo

Re[2]: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-23 Thread geoffrey levand
Thanks for the example. regards 23 января 2012, 09:41 от "Daniel O'Connor" : > > On 23/01/2012, at 13:33, Andrew Davis wrote: > > >> do you want to sync the disks first? of just hard reset? > > > > Why would anyone ever want to do that, you're a kernel mod, if you want to > > do that just trip

HotPar '12 Submission Deadline Approaching

2012-01-23 Thread Lionel Garth Jones
I'm writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '12) is approaching. Paper registration (abstract submission) is due Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PST. Full paper submission is due Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 11:59 p.m.