Great FICL Hacks

2000-01-22 Thread Michael Kennett
I've been playing around with the boot loader(8), which seems to be a very powerful piece of software. However I'm really only using the 'load', 'unload', and 'boot' functions. I'd be interested in hearing about more powerful uses of this software. Are there any great hacks of FICL that people ha

Re: Use of newbus in sys/pci/pci.c

2000-01-15 Thread Michael Kennett
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Michael Kennett wrote: > > I don't understand the line that extracts the ivars from the child > > device. Isn't it the case that the ivars are a property of the bus > > device (dev)? > > No since the parent may not be a PCI device

Use of newbus in sys/pci/pci.c

2000-01-15 Thread Michael Kennett
Hello All, I have a question on the sys/pci/pci.c code, and its use of the newbus architecture. An example of the code in question is: static struct resource * pci_alloc_resource(device_t dev, device_t child, int type, int *rid, u_long start, u_long end, u_long count, u_int fl

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

1999-12-16 Thread Michael Kennett
Hi Warner, Thanks for your detailed writeup of the direction that you want to go in. > > What can you do to help? > Well, firstly I'd like to get the xe driver under FreeBSD. But before I even get to that stage, I'll have to learn about the pccard subsystem, and more about the FreeBSD kernel

Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go?

1999-12-15 Thread Michael Kennett
Warner wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Kennett writes: > : I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 > : titled: > : Massive pccard disruptions to continue > : > : So, have these disruptions continued? And wh

pccard disruptions : how did it go?

1999-12-15 Thread Michael Kennett
Hello All, I've just scoured the archives, and found a thread from late October 1999 titled: Massive pccard disruptions to continue So, have these disruptions continued? And what is the current status with pccard support in the kernel? I've noticed that a few files still contain the PCCARD_

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Kennett
Hi Jeoren, > I am already going to do this kind of stuff for the Dutch (Free)BSD User > Group, so I imagine I could as well start work on this one as well. > > I even have a list of interesting FAQs on my homepage which I really > need to expand. > > Joy! More work ;) > > Feel free to e-mail m

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Kennett
On a slight tangent, I've just gone back and reread Greg Lehey's 'How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions'. It's a great document, covering a lot of the etiquette for the freebsd-questions mailing list. It can be found at: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html However, the document does

Passing descriptors over local domain sockets

1999-09-29 Thread Michael Kennett
Hello All, I have a program that passes descriptors over local domain sockets. It works fantastically on FreeBSD, but I've got to port the program over to Linux (sigh). Unfortunately, the program doesn't work on Linux -- is this because of problems with the Linux implementation of passing file de

Re: keeping termcap up to date

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Kennett
> I just wonder why don't we just import termcap database from > the master site: http://www.tuxedo.org/terminfo, rather than > maintaining our own copy? Minor correction: the URL is http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/terminfo. Mike Kennett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Kennett
Hi Shigio, As the owner/author of a piece of software, you can distribute the source code under any license that you like (GNU/BSD/Artistic etc...). Indeed, there is no reason to choose just a single license under which you distribute your code -- it should be possible for you to distribute the co

Re: GNU GLOBAL

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Kennett
Hi Shigio, As the owner/author of a piece of software, you can distribute the source code under any license that you like (GNU/BSD/Artistic etc...). Indeed, there is no reason to choose just a single license under which you distribute your code -- it should be possible for you to distribute the c

Crossing building alpha world fails

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Kennett
r building the cross? The source code tree is from freebsd-current, taken as of today. The build failed with yesterdays -current as well. Any help is appreciated. Michael Kennett (m...@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&

Crossing building alpha world fails

1999-09-03 Thread Michael Kennett
to use for building the cross? The source code tree is from freebsd-current, taken as of today. The build failed with yesterdays -current as well. Any help is appreciated. Michael Kennett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"