Question on timecounter hardware / What cpu flag is constant_tsc

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Saad
All I am looking into an issue with timecounter hardware on a number of HP DL165 G7's They all run FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and all have the same CPU and firmware. However they report strange results when you probe kern.timecounter.choice and kern.timecounter.hardware Take this example ssh

Re: Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-18 Thread Roman Kurakin
Jan Mikkelsen wrote: On 15/01/2012, at 6:00 PM, Roman Kurakin wrote: Hi, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, I'm looking to upgrade a system running frame relay over a Sangoma A101 card and WANPIPE. Sangoma do not support FreeBSD anymore, so I'm looking for alternatives. What har

Re: Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-18 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
On 15/01/2012, at 6:00 PM, Roman Kurakin wrote: > Hi, > > Jan Mikkelsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking to upgrade a system running frame relay over a Sangoma A101 card >> and WANPIPE. >> >> Sangoma do not support FreeBSD anymore, so I

Re: Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-18 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
so I'm looking for alternatives. >> >> What hardware does ng_frame_relay support now that ar(4) and sr(4) are not >> in FreeBSD 9? >> >> Specifically, will ng_frame_relay work with a Digium TE121 and >> ports/dahdi-kmod? >> >> Any sugges

Re: Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-15 Thread Roman Kurakin
Hi, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, I'm looking to upgrade a system running frame relay over a Sangoma A101 card and WANPIPE. Sangoma do not support FreeBSD anymore, so I'm looking for alternatives. What hardware does ng_frame_relay support now that ar(4) and sr(4) are not in

Re: Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/13/12 11:00 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, I'm looking to upgrade a system running frame relay over a Sangoma A101 card and WANPIPE. Sangoma do not support FreeBSD anymore, so I'm looking for alternatives. What hardware does ng_frame_relay support now that ar(4) and sr(4)

Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-13 Thread Jan Mikkelsen
Hi, I'm looking to upgrade a system running frame relay over a Sangoma A101 card and WANPIPE. Sangoma do not support FreeBSD anymore, so I'm looking for alternatives. What hardware does ng_frame_relay support now that ar(4) and sr(4) are not in FreeBSD 9? Specifically, will ng_f

Re: Searching for supported Hardware listing

2010-11-03 Thread Harald Servat
You mean something like this? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html Regards. 2010/11/3 Bob Brower > While searching the Archives I saw a reference to a txt > filecontaining a listing of driver supported hardware. Is this listing > available >

Searching for supported Hardware listing

2010-11-03 Thread Bob Brower
            While searching the Archives I saw a reference to a txt filecontaining a listing of driver supported hardware. Is this listing available via forums?     thnx ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-04-15 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06/04/2010 15:47 Andriy Gapon said the following: > on 30/03/2010 19:43 Andriy Gapon said the following: >> do you think that periodic saving of system clock to hardware and making >> resettodr >> asynchronous are dependent issues? Or are they orthogonal and c

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-04-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 30/03/2010 19:43 Andriy Gapon said the following: > > do you think that periodic saving of system clock to hardware and making > resettodr > asynchronous are dependent issues? Or are they orthogonal and can be > implemented > independently? A new version

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-30 Thread Andriy Gapon
e a callout > schedule a task for taskqueue_thread). Guys, do you think that periodic saving of system clock to hardware and making resettodr asynchronous are dependent issues? Or are they orthogonal and can be implemented independently? -- Andriy Gapon

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 28 March 2010 7:45:25 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Peter Jeremy writes: > > A new kthread which sleeps on channel "update_rtc". When woken, it > > checks to see if it's within (say) 50msec of a second boundary and so, > > it does a trylock on the (new) RTC mutex. If it grabs the mut

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy writes: > Traditionally, the (PC) RTC is on the ISA bus (though it's possible it > might use I2C on other architectures or LPC on current PCs). AFAIK, it's usually on I2C on non-i386 platforms. I2C RTC chips are dirt cheap and easy to integrate, especially if you already have I2C te

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Mar-27 01:38:36 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Peter Jeremy writes: >> It's not especially important how regularly the RTC is updated, just >> that it _is_ updated. This suggests that an alternative approach >> would be for adjtime() / ntp_adjtime() to directly call resettodr() if >>

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy writes: > It's not especially important how regularly the RTC is updated, just > that it _is_ updated. This suggests that an alternative approach > would be for adjtime() / ntp_adjtime() to directly call resettodr() if > it's more than P minutes since resettodr() was last called. It

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Peter Jeremy writes: > At least some versions of Linux also save a RTC drift approximation > and "last set" timestamp whenever the RTC is updated. This allows the > kernel to better set the system clock from the RTC at boot (ie, our > inittodr()). The downside is that this needs to store 8-16 by

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Mar-26 17:30:14 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Andriy Gapon writes: >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: >> > Andriy Gapon writes: >> > > Also, I am aware that the period should be configurable (sysctl). >> > Why? >> Because there would always be someone who would want a different value :

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Andriy Gapon writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > > Andriy Gapon writes: > > > Also, I am aware that the period should be configurable (sysctl). > > Why? > Because there would always be someone who would want a different value :) > > Although I can see an argument for a sysctl to turn it on o

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/03/2010 17:44 Dag-Erling Smørgrav said the following: > Andriy Gapon writes: >> What do you think about the following patch or something similar? > > I've wondered for years why we didn't already do this. > >> Also, I am aware that the period should be configurable (sysctl). > > Why? Bec

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Andriy Gapon writes: > What do you think about the following patch or something similar? I've wondered for years why we didn't already do this. > Also, I am aware that the period should be configurable (sysctl). Why? Although I can see an argument for a sysctl to turn it on or off. IIRC, Linu

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/03/2010 17:12 Ed Schouten said the following: > * Andriy Gapon wrote: >> +timeout(periodic_resettodr, NULL, 1800 * hz); > > By the way, wouldn't it be a little nicer to use callout(9)? I don't know :-) I see that timeout is deprecated and is unsafe in some respects, but using callout

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Ed Schouten
* Andriy Gapon wrote: > + timeout(periodic_resettodr, NULL, 1800 * hz); By the way, wouldn't it be a little nicer to use callout(9)? -- Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ pgpz0oTdiuq2Z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Ed Schouten
* Andriy Gapon wrote: > What do you think about the following patch or something similar? Yes, please. :-) I had an Intel motherboard which had a clock drift. A couple of seconds a day. When I had to reboot after upgrading/etc, it was not a serious problem, but say, the system locked up and rebo

periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
What do you think about the following patch or something similar? Just in case, I am already aware about missing empty lines before the code in the new functions. Also, I am aware that the period should be configurable (sysctl). Reference: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware

GA-MA780G-UD3H hardware monitoring

2009-08-25 Thread Andriy Gapon
Does anybody know if Gigabyte provides special ACPI interfaces for HWM on their motherboards? Maybe something like ASUS does (acpi_aiboost)? Or do they access HWM chip directly? They have this EasyTune software, so they must be doing something. DSDT of GA-MA780G-UD3H doesn't even provide TZ. Thi

Hardware random number generator

2009-06-11 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Hello, There are two ways to managed a RNG in FreeBSD, I'm asking which is the best: - feed the random subsystem via random_harvest(9) - add the RNG to random(4) as the Nehemiah RNG (VIA padlock) In fact, i do not understand why the Nehemiah RNG is not managed by padlock(4). Thanks, regards. __

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-12-09 Thread ancelgray
er each driver reload. Let me know how it goes. Andrew -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-support-for-AMD-Geode-CS5536-audio--tp15002428p20920300.html Sent from the freebsd-hackers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
manufacturers of hardware. More recently there were times when anybody from because managers/bosses concentrate on majority, not minority of users. manufacturers did not notice Linux. However now it is possible to find a few given out "put normal OS - their list is at us on a site and

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-12-01 Thread ancelgray
this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-support-for-AMD-Geode-CS5536-audio--tp15002428p20786956.html Sent from the freebsd-hackers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-12-01 Thread ancelgray
ase tell me if there's anything else I can provide to help you. > > [1] http://www.fit-pc.com/new/fit-pc-1-0-specifications.html > > Cheers, > -- > Lionel Flandrin > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://l

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-30 Thread Lionel Flandrin
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:30:41PM -0800, ancelgray wrote: > > To AMD CS5536 users: > > This is Andrew Gray. I have finished the audio driver for the AMD CS5536 > companion > chip. It is working on a PC Engines Alix 1C low power board under FreeBSD > 7.0. > It can be found at: > > http://mod

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-29 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Cyrix). The driver was part of an effort to "undo" drivers that had been put into the Geode's "hypervisor" (sort of an extended ACPI that provided device emulators ("device models"); it turned out that was considered reverse engineering hardware and so was a

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-28 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:30 AM, ancelgray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To AMD CS5536 users: > > This is Andrew Gray. I have finished the audio driver for the AMD CS5536 > companion > chip. It is working on a PC Engines Alix 1C low power board under FreeBSD > 7.0. > It can be found at: > > http

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-28 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
initions are not copyrightable if they are dictated by external > factors, such as compatibility with existing software or hardware. > > There are even cases in which actual code is not copyrightable, > specifically if the algorithm it implements is so simple that no > reasonable progr

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
dictated by external factors, such as compatibility with existing software or hardware. There are even cases in which actual code is not copyrightable, specifically if the algorithm it implements is so simple that no reasonable programmer would have implemented it in any other way. (SCO tried to

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-27 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
it's free and better documented. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/arch/i386/pci/auglx.c I don't have the hardware to test. My 0,02 euros. Regards. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-26 Thread ancelgray
ancelgray AT y a h o o DOT com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hardware-support-for-AMD-Geode-CS5536-audio--tp15002428p20713056.html Sent from the freebsd-hackers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-10-02 Thread Alec Kloss
On 2008-10-02 05:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To All, > > I finally have a working CS5536 audio driver for FreeBSD 6.2. The filename > is snd_amd5536.ko and I will be making it available shortly. I have been > using an ALIX-1C motherboard for my testing. Anyone have othe

Re: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-10-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
hardware that they want to test it on? Another question. How does one get the FreeBSD people to put this driver into their OS? You have to generate a patch for 8-current and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for review. There may be some improvement suggestions or bug reports then. Fix the

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-10-02 Thread Joel Dahl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Another question. How does one get the FreeBSD people to put this > driver into their OS? Make the source code available somewhere and hopefully someone (usually ariff@ or mav@) with knowledge about the sound subsystem will review it. Just make sure that you follow

Re: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-10-01 Thread ancelgray
To All, I finally have a working CS5536 audio driver for FreeBSD 6.2. The filename is snd_amd5536.ko and I will be making it available shortly. I have been using an ALIX-1C motherboard for my testing. Anyone have other hardware that they want to test it on? Another question. How does one

Re: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-10-01 Thread ancelgray
To All, I finally have a working CS5536 audio driver for FreeBSD 6.2. The filename is snd_amd5536.ko and I will be making it available shortly. I have been using an ALIX-1C motherboard for my testing. Anyone have other hardware that they want to test it on? Another question. How does one

Free Hardware available: HD-5500 PCHDTV Card.

2008-07-16 Thread Fritz Katz
Hello FreeBSD-Hackers, I have 3 cards to be given away, $129 value. There is a catch -- you need to volunteer to port the card to FreeBSD and make your modifications publically available. Join and contribute to an open source effort to enable Video4Linux drivers to run on BSD here: http://vide

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-07-14 Thread ancelgray
OK, After doing a little more reading, I see that a DOS test program is impossible because the MSR registers for the audio controller are accessed in protected mode only. There actually are opcoded assembler instructions to access the MSR's: RDMSR WRMSR This is a show stopper in DOS. This i

Re: Re: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-07-13 Thread Bruce R. Montague
d 4.6 drivers still work on freebsd 6.2 and 7.0? Not sure, I haven't had relevant Geode hardware up for awhile... I'd be rather surprised if even for the CS5530 something hadn't changed or needed tweaking, but I don't know. > > Are you working on this CS5536 driver? Do y

Re: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-07-12 Thread ancelgray
compact flash in its bay, and just use it as a flash HD. This works fine: http://www.mini-box.com/Alix-1C-Board-1-LAN-1-MINI-PCI?sc=8&category=754 A question for you? Do Freebsd 4.6 drivers still work on freebsd 6.2 and 7.0? Are you working on this CS5536 driver? Do you have hardware yet?

Re: Any interest in unused hardware being made available for remote developer use?

2008-02-09 Thread Wayne Sierke
Following up with some corrections/additional info: On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 01:04 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: > I have a Compaq ML370 Proliant server here which is likely to remain > unused for the foreseeable future. Some of its key specs are: > > - Dual 800MHz PIII/133MHz/256MB CPU Of course, t

Any interest in unused hardware being made available for remote developer use?

2008-02-06 Thread Wayne Sierke
I have a Compaq ML370 Proliant server here which is likely to remain unused for the foreseeable future. Some of its key specs are: - Dual 800MHz PIII/133MHz/256MB CPU - 1.25GB ECC Memory - 2 x 9G 10k SCSI-UW2 - 1 x 18G 10k SCSI-UW2 - 2 x Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet I've been contempl

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-24 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Bruce R. Montague, who wrote on Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:06:51PM -0800 .. > > Hi, re: > > > I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out with the audio is > > the Geode CS5536. > > Those AMD Geode systems with the CS5536 look almost > cheap enough to afford one for each hand. I'll

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-23 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, re: > I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out with the audio is > the Geode CS5536. Those AMD Geode systems with the CS5536 look almost cheap enough to afford one for each hand. I'll look into upgrading the 5530 audio driver for the 5536, but it will take sometime. If someone

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Bruce R. Montague wrote: I would try to fix/upgrade this driver if I had any hardware with a CS5536, but I don't. That said, can anyone recomend a cheap system that includes the CS5536, is generally available, doesn't cost very much and can be used as a minimal dev platform? (Sure

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-23 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 23.01.2008 um 12:09 schrieb Alec Kloss: On 2008-01-22 22:34, Bruce R. Montague wrote: I would try to fix/upgrade this driver if I had any hardware with a CS5536, but I don't. The specific device I'm targeting is a "koolu", http://www.koolu.com. Or take a look at h

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-23 Thread Rink Springer
ple claiming he might... > I would try to fix/upgrade this driver if I had any > hardware with a CS5536, but I don't. That said, can > anyone recomend a cheap system that includes the > CS5536, is generally available, doesn't cost very > much and can be used as a minimal dev

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-23 Thread Alec Kloss
bsd.org/soundsystem My googling may be mistaken about a thread last February. > I would try to fix/upgrade this driver if I had any > hardware with a CS5536, but I don't. That said, can > anyone recomend a cheap system that includes the > CS5536, is generally available, doesn't

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-22 Thread Bruce R. Montague
le of pings along the line of the above. I honestly hadn't realized anybody was using it (I guess that's the problem with it working). If there was a thread last february, I must have missed it. I dont think I've ever seen the soundsystem wiki. I would try to fix/upgrade this driver if

Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-01-21 Thread Alec Kloss
://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_9864^13054,00.html I'd be happy to try whatever people suggest, or even provide access to a RELENG_7 or -current machine running this hardware. Remote debugging options are limited because there are no serial po

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-12-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33AM +0100 I heard the voice of Søren Schmidt, and lo! it spake thus: > > I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it > fixes the problem or not. Behind the curve, as usual, I just upgraded one of my systems that's had the problem in the past to

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
Joao Barros wrote: On 11/20/07, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a écrit : I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with 7.0 betas before, but with this patch things run as well as they did on 6.x. Ari S. Hello, Ha

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-20 Thread Ari Suutari
Hi, On man, nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Hi All! I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-20 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a écrit : > I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with 7.0 betas > before, but with this patch things run as well as they did > on 6.x. > > Ari S. Hello, Has anyone an idea why the Promise controllers seemed to work correctly under 6.x, then

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-20 Thread Joao Barros
On 11/20/07, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Tuesday 20 November 2007, Ari Suutari a écrit : > > > I have Promise TX2 (PDC20575). It didn't work with 7.0 betas > > before, but with this patch things run as well as they did > > on 6.x. > > > > Ari S. > > Hello, > > Has anyone a

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
Le Monday 19 November 2007, Søren Schmidt a écrit : > Hi All! > > I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes > the problem or not. > > Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) > > > -Søren Hello SoS, From what I read, it seems that the las

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Ulf Lilleengen
On man, nov 19, 2007 at 09:02:33 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Hi All! > > I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes > the problem or not. > > Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) > > Hi! I'm sorry I wasn't able to test this earli

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-19 Thread Søren Schmidt
Hi All! I'd like to get the final verdict of the attached patch and if it fixes the problem or not. Please test and report, its a bit urgent if it need to get into R7 :) -Søren ? promise-fix2 ? promise-fix3 Index: ata-chipset.c

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-16 Thread Søren Schmidt
Ulf Lilleengen wrote: I tried the patch, but I end up with the partition table being incorrectly read (probably) on the drives connected to my TX4 card. Normally, there's one partition on the drive, but when I apply the patch, the drive provider (ad6) is all that shows up in /dev. When I rever

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-16 Thread Ulf Lilleengen
On fre, nov 02, 2007 at 01:34:51 +0300, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: > Hello. > > I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data > corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. > > Bug description: > SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-09 Thread Roman Kurakin
By the way, is there any chance to get RAID5 working with this controller? rik Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: Arno J. Klaassen wrote: Rather than the marginal HW part, it seems, for me, closely related to MB/BIOS (as well (Alexander apperently has about the same setup as I have for this test)

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-09 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Roman Kurakin wrote: By the way, is there any chance to get RAID5 working with this controller? Software only. -- ./lxnt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-03 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > Rather than the marginal HW part, it seems, for me, closely related to > MB/BIOS (as well (Alexander apperently has about the same setup as I > have for this test)): > [...] > > I vaguely remember from another PR that the Promise card does > something with PCI-bursti

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-03 Thread Ender
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: Hello, Alexander Sabourenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello. I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. Bug description: SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Hello, > [ ... ] > > I will test again with "#define PDC_MAXLASTSGSIZE 32*4" (just to see > > if that makes a difference) > > > One thing to try is to loose any geom raid, if raid needed use ataraid > instead. Nope : i did a "newfs ad6" (the disk at the Promise TX4) and then an rsync on it panic

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: definitely an improvement, but not sufficient (for my setup ) : amd64-releng_6 on an ASUS A8V UP (box ran rock-stable for years i386-releng_5 with same hardware apart TX4 and drives) from dmesg : atapci0: port 0xe000-0xe07f,0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfbb0-0xfbb00fff

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Alexander Sabourenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > definitely an improvement, but not sufficient (for my setup ) : > > > > amd64-releng_6 on an ASUS A8V UP (box ran rock-stable > > for years i386-releng_5 with same hardware apart

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > definitely an improvement, but not sufficient (for my setup ) : > > amd64-releng_6 on an ASUS A8V UP (box ran rock-stable > for years i386-releng_5 with same hardware apart TX4 and > drives) > > from dmesg : > Setup is identical to mine, exc

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Hello, Alexander Sabourenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data > corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. > > Bug description: > SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Søren Schmidt wrote: Søren Schmidt wrote: Good catch! However from my quick glimpse at the Promise sources the limit seems to be 32 Dwords ie 32*4 = 128bytes. Please see driver named 4_sataii150-300_linux2.6-src_x86-64_v1.01.0.23 I'll investigate further and ask Promise for the gory details

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Søren Schmidt wrote: Good catch! However from my quick glimpse at the Promise sources the limit seems to be 32 Dwords ie 32*4 = 128bytes. I'll investigate further and ask Promise for the gory details, stay tuned... I dont think the PRD count limitation is a real problem, I've newer seen that

Re: Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
Alexander Sabourenkov wrote: Hello. I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. Bug description: SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in a dma transfer) is larger than 164 bytes. This was found while

Patch RFC: Promise SATA300 TX4 hardware bug workaround.

2007-11-01 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Hello. I have ported the workaround for the hardware bug that causes data corruption on Promise SATA300 TX4 cards to RELENG_7. Bug description: SATA300 TX4 hardware chokes if last PRD entry (in a dma transfer) is larger than 164 bytes. This was found while analysing vendor-supplied linux driver

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-07 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:40, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Peter Jeremy wrote: > Daniel Rudy wrote: > > None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1. I can't > > even find dmidump anywhere on the system or in ports either. > > Please elaborate. kenv(8) states that it first appeared in 4.1.1 and > I don't recall seeing any reference

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-02 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 2/1/2007 11:33 PM, Danny Braniss stated the following: >> --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Content-Disposition: inline >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> >> On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote: >>> None of this

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread Danny Braniss
> > --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote: > >None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1. I can't > >even find dmidump

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2007-Feb-01 21:49:43 -0800, Daniel Rudy wrote: >None of this stuff appears on my system and I'm running 6.1. I can't >even find dmidump anywhere on the system or in ports either. Please elaborate. kenv(8) states that it first appeared in 4.1.1 and I don't recall seeing any reference to '

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 2/1/2007 11:40 AM, M. Warner Losh stated the following: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Peter Jere

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wro

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:38:51AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wrote: > : >If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ > : >UUID [1]

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-02-01 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wrote: : >If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ : >UUID [1] available. This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the : >smbios.sy

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-01-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2007-Jan-28 10:39:36 -0600, Jon Passki wrote: >If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ >UUID [1] available. This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the >smbios.system.uuid field. You can also get it via kenv(8) without needing any ports: # kenv smbios.sy

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-01-28 Thread Jon Passki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 27, 2007, at 23:35 , Daniel Rudy wrote: At about the time of 12/19/2006 7:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell stated the following: 2006/12/19, Koen Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi All, I was wondering, if something like a uniq

Re: unique hardware identification

2007-01-27 Thread Daniel Rudy
At about the time of 12/19/2006 7:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell stated the following: > 2006/12/19, Koen Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi All, >> >> I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification >> would be possible on FreeBSD. >> >&

Re: unique hardware identification

2006-12-20 Thread Danny Braniss
> > > I'm thinking of something like combining serial numbers from > > CPU/disks for example, but there does not seem to be a clear way to > > obtain these (not all cpu's even have a serial number in there). > > the simplest thing that comes to my mind is parsing `dmidump` for > serial numbers, h

Re: unique hardware identification

2006-12-19 Thread soralx
> I'm thinking of something like combining serial numbers from > CPU/disks for example, but there does not seem to be a clear way to > obtain these (not all cpu's even have a serial number in there). the simplest thing that comes to my mind is parsing `dmidump` for serial numbers, hoping there ar

Re: unique hardware identification

2006-12-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Devon H. O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2006/12/19, Koen Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All, > > > > I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification > > would be possible on FreeBSD. > > > >

Re: unique hardware identification

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Koen Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hi All, > > I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification > would be possible on FreeBSD. > > I'd like a machine to authenticate to a server, for which it will > need a

Re: unique hardware identification

2006-12-19 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2006/12/19, Koen Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi All, I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification would be possible on FreeBSD. I'd like a machine to authenticate to a server, for which it will need a unique identification. Problem is, it should b

unique hardware identification

2006-12-19 Thread Koen Martens
Hi All, I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification would be possible on FreeBSD. I'd like a machine to authenticate to a server, for which it will need a unique identification. Problem is, it should be generated automatically and not easy to fake / detect without al

Re: FW: FreeBSD: driver for ssl hardware accelerator board based on broadcom bcm5825, bcm5862 chips

2006-12-19 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
ROTECTED]'; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: FreeBSD: driver for ssl hardware accelerator board based on > broadcom bcm5825, bcm5862 chips > > > Hello, > I am working on FreeBSD driver for bcm5825 (5862) based board. > Would you please help me. > > First o

FW: FreeBSD: driver for ssl hardware accelerator board based on broadcom bcm5825, bcm5862 chips

2006-12-17 Thread Alex Aronson
-Original Message- From: Alex Aronson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:48 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FreeBSD: driver for ssl hardware acc

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