Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:23:00PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote: > > I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to > > permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP > > stack. > > Most likely. No

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Mike Smith had to walk into mine and say: > > > > I am feeling a little dense today, how do you allocate a > > dma channel for a PCI busmaster device with newbus? > > It's a bus master, so you don't. The logical conclusion is that Larry

Re: [Review please] (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath manpath.config)

1999-08-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ruslan Ermilov writes: > How about the following patch. It adds an OPTIONAL_MANPATH directive, > which is equivalent to the MANDATORY_MANPATH, except an absence of the > directory is not considered an error. Sure. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Configuration mechanism of PCI bus

1999-08-16 Thread Stefan Esser
On 1999-08-09 22:08 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Even with "PCI System Architecture, 4th edition" at hand, I still have > some problems understanding the code in isa/pcibus.c. Please point out > any misunderstanding I may have in the following: It has been some time since I write that code, b

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Larry Lile wrote: > > I am feeling a little dense today, how do you allocate a > dma channel for a PCI busmaster device with newbus? You don't. PCI busmastering doesn't use dma channels. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in

Re: shared memory crash

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
don't use shmget if you can. Use mmap'ed files. The SYSV shm interface is incredibly dumb. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

PCCard can't get CIS for 3com card

1999-08-16 Thread M. L. Dodson
rtoren writes: > The card came with the Dell Inspiron and is a 3com 3CCFEM656B. > Unfortunately, I don't think 3.2R is getting enough data to attempt an ID. I > saw an archived query just like my situation in the mail archives from a > year ago, but there was no reply. > Once I get past this,

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going with Li

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The originator claims that his kern

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > > > Gi

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > > > > > Given that they say they're dro

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Brian McGroarty
--- Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > Can you please site a reference for this, other than > wishful > > > thinking by the Linux camp? > > > > Here's one: > > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015908,00.html > > > > But just ab

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I lost track of the quotes. > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add > > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. > > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform, that will

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The ori

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT) >From: Kris Kennaway >I also have prototype code which can store multiple password hashes in the >password file, and retrieves "secondaries" in a new field in struct >passwd. You could conceivably set it up to keep a DES password in sync >with the SRP

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The ori

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > I'm hardly an "expert" with NIS, but it is actually fairly flexible... > as long as changes imposed are on its own terms. :-) Thanks for the information. I noticed some rumblings on the srp-dev mailing list about developing NIS support - I don't thin

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> I lost track of the quotes. > > > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add > > > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. > > > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > > > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform,

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > These paragraphs are contradictory. It implies an end to MIPS. > > > > Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. > > > > It also seems a bit overzealous. > > No argument here. Perhaps they're just trying to float a few trial > baloons in hopes of finding something popular/feasable. That was my take on thi

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becomin

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:19 PM + 8/16/99, Terry Lambert wrote: Begging your pardon, but: | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches | entirely to Intel Corp

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Sorry for not responding to this earlier, I missed it in my inbox. On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote: > > Where do you store the keys, or do you generate them dynamically? The > > latter would take time to verify primality. > > If by "keys" you mean the DH generator and such, they are consta

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Kip Macy
I don't think that this is an appropriate forum but I will put in my two cents nonetheless. At least as of a couple of years age MIPS was the most widely used embedded processor in the world. Thus, MIPS is in no way dependent on IRIX. Not to mention that Linux runs on MIPS.

illegal ATAPI command in wdc probe?

1999-08-16 Thread Charles Randall
The VMWare guest OS page for FreeBSD (http://www.vmware.com/support/technotesfreebsd.html) states, --- One caveat with all versions of FreeBSD is that there is a problem probing for the CD-ROM device wdc1; FreeBSD sends an illegal ATAPI command to the IDE controller and ignores the error status re

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Larry Lile wrote: > I am feeling a little dense today, how do you allocate a > dma channel for a PCI busmaster device with newbus? I don't think PCI devices use the ISA DMA controller. "It just works." (EISA has this advantage too.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z

[Fwd: [URGENT] CVS problems]

1999-08-16 Thread Mark Jaffe
Mark Jaffe wrote: > > Jordan, > > CVS is issuing an "out of memory" message on attempting to checkin a > 12MB file. What can I do? There is 300M of swap on the machine, it is > running FreeBSD 2.2.8, and CVS says: > "Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.9.26 (client/server)" > > I'll post this to

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Nick Sayer
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Are you sure about this? Having constant p, g, x and y for every > telnet client and server surely makes it much easier to attack? In theory > you could probably pregenerate all of the arithmetic. Maybe we're not using the constant names the same way. In SRA the modulu

kernel symbol `gd_curpcb' not found

1999-08-16 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have tried to debug a kernel by simulating a panic without success. I have read the handbook and searched the mailinglist. I even tried not to strip the debug kernel at all. Still I get the above message and I do not know how to go on. The following are the commands that I used: now5# gdb -k

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > For an interesting take on all this visit www.mipsabi.org > Uh, that site is dead, as of the end of this month. See the > first link ("announcement"). Precisely my point ... ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscri

Raw Packet code containing security bits

1999-08-16 Thread FreeBSD mailing lists
I wonder if anyone here could perhaps of be assistance, Im currently playing with implementing certain things in trusted bsd to do with ip security classes and how the system responds to security bits, and implementing certain things the stack etc. However my first piece of test code playing with

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> Actually, i'd expect far fewer problems for the private mounts than for > user mounts which modify the name space for all processes ... The concept of private namespaces does not exist on FreeBSD. It would require a modification of the lookup mechanism, and, potentially, a seperation of credent

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > Cool, another non-exportable system available to US users only. :-) > > Yeah... isn't it time you Yanks got together and stormed that Trade Dept? > I mean, if you can get excited over a few wooden crates containing tea... > > ;-) ;-) Pound for pound (no pun intended), Tea was much more expen

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsystem > > in preparation for an all-out effort to port SGI's XFS filesystem to > > FreeBSD 4.x at such time as SGI gives up the code. Matt Dillon > > has written in hackers- that the VFS subsys

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Christian Kuhtz
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 08:22:02PM +, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is actually the problem at issue in an SMBFS implementation, > and for which the Linux guys punted: the credential in SMB is > per connection, not per user. Per connection creds suck performance wise (=I haven't seen an implemen

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > 2. Advisory locks are hung off private backing objects. > > > > Advisory locks are passed into VOP_ADVLOCK in each FS > > instance, and then each FS applies this by hanging the > > locks off a list on a private backing object. For FFS, > > this is the in core inode. > > > >

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > The concept of private namespaces does not exist on FreeBSD. > It would require a modification of the lookup mechanism, and, > potentially, a seperation of credentials from the process into > a session manager. Yeah but you can fake it pretty well witho

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Mike Smith
> > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The concept of private namespaces does not exist on FreeBSD. > > It would require a modification of the lookup mechanism, and, > > potentially, a seperation of credentials from the process into > > a session manager. > > Yeah but you can fake it p

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > But I can't get anyone interested :-( > Uh, we're all interested; where's the code? v9fs is the first piece. The servers are done. But I'm mostly out of the freebsd hacking business at this point (except for maybe via drivers) so I need some help to get

Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-16 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, To all you low-level kernel and bootloader hackers: what would it take to save and restore a running system image (presumably from dedicated raw partition) so that the system would continue where it left before reboot? It doesn't sound that difficult to me - after all, laptops somehow do it -

Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-16 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi, > > To all you low-level kernel and bootloader hackers: what would it take to > save and restore a running system image (presumably from dedicated raw > partition) so that the system would continue where it left before reboot? > > It doesn't sound that difficult to me - after all, laptops s

vnc on nat-proxy/firewall

1999-08-16 Thread Leif Neland
I need to remote-control an NT behind a unix-box running nat-proxy/firewall/gateway. Would it be possible first to connect from the outside to a vnc-server on gateway, then to run vnc-client on the gateway to connect to a vnc-server on the nt? Or is it possible to have a vnc-proxy on the gateway

Re: Raw Packet code containing security bits

1999-08-16 Thread Bosko Milekic
Hello Andrew, When filling your struct ip *iphead, try replacing: iphead->ip_len = htons(length); with: iphead->ip_len = length; or, for portability reasons, you may want to do something like: #ifdef LINUX || OpenBSD21 #define BO(x) htons(x) #else #def

Re: [Fwd: [URGENT] CVS problems]

1999-08-16 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Mark Jaffe: > > CVS is issuing an "out of memory" message on attempting to checkin a > > 12MB file. What can I do? There is 300M of swap on the machine, it is > > running FreeBSD 2.2.8, and CVS says: > > "Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.9.26 (client/server)" > > > > I'll post this

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 2.Advisory locks are hung off private backing objects. > > I'd vote againsts your implimentation suggestion for VOP_ADVLOCK on an > > efficiency concern. If we actually make a VOP call, that should be the > > end of the story. I.e either add

Re: [Fwd: [URGENT] CVS problems]

1999-08-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
> Mark Jaffe wrote: > > > > CVS is issuing an "out of memory" message on attempting to checkin a > > 12MB file. What can I do? There is 300M of swap on the machine, it is > > running FreeBSD 2.2.8, and CVS says: > > "Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.9.26 (client/server)" > > Anyone help?

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-16 Thread dannyman
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 MST, dannyman wrote: > > > Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? > > Then you probably have a CDROM drive or a network interface, both of > which can be used to get sysinstall onto your machine. :

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-16 Thread Mark Newton
dannyman wrote: > The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but > it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p 1. boot single-user 2. dd if=/some/dir/boot.flp of=/dev/da0s1b 3. reboot 4. When boot1 gives you the 5-second paused baton, press any key 5. enter

Re: vnc on nat-proxy/firewall

1999-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
vnc is cool, but also check out back-orafice (not sure where you get it but the new one can take over NT as well as W95) On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > I need to remote-control an NT behind a unix-box running > nat-proxy/firewall/gateway. > > Would it be possible first to connect fro

Re: vnc on nat-proxy/firewall

1999-08-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Aug-99 Julian Elischer wrote: > vnc is cool, but also check out back-orafice > (not sure where you get it but the new one can take over NT as well as > W95) BO2K does NT (much to MS's chagrin)... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.c

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > > > 2. Advisory locks are hung off private backing objects. > > > > > > I'd vote againsts your implimentation suggestion for VOP_ADVLOCK on an > > > efficiency concern. If we actually make a VOP call, that should be the > > > end of the story. I.e either add a vnode flag to indicate pas/f

How much memory (max) will FreeBSD use?

1999-08-16 Thread Stephen J. Roznowski
I've looked at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ51.html, but the answer seems to be lacking... On a stock system (3.2 and 4.0), how much RAM will a system be able to use? Will a stock system use all 4GB? Thanks, -- Stephen J. Roznowski(s...@home.net) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@fr

Kerberos 5 integration.

1999-08-16 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
Who were the parties that were heading up the Kerberos 5 integration? I have questions. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | win...@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL| ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | I

Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:48:22 MST, dannyman wrote: > The point of it is, it's easy enough to download the floppies, but > it's really hard to boot a system off an .flp image. :p Presumably you saw the posted trick about dd'ing the floppy image to your swap partition and booting off _that_? :-)

Re: How much memory (max) will FreeBSD use?

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:45:28 -0400, "Stephen J. Roznowski" wrote: > On a stock system (3.2 and 4.0), how much RAM will a system be able to > use? Will a stock system use all 4GB? I expect that someone else will answer your question. I just want to clear up a possible misunderstanding that could

Re: Kerberos 5 integration.

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:51:27 -0400, "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > Who were the parties that were heading up the Kerberos 5 integration? > > I have questions. Seek Ye first the kingdom of Mark. (markm) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990816164048.28824.rocketm...@web1001.mail.yahoo.com> Brian McGroarty writes: : So do the old and new Playstation models. The MIPS core is being : manufactured by several companies: IDT alone has something like : a dozen variants available with and without MMU, FP, 5000 vs : 1 co

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message Narvi writes: : > Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. : > : : Which doesn't matter all that much. MIPS cpus for nintendo could be made : by say MISP, not SGI (and SGI sold/is trying to sell MIPS). Acutally, the Nintendo 64 uses the Vr4300 series of chips from NEC. I think the new Nintendo will

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 12:23:00PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote: > > I heard somewhere that Linux was released under a slightly modified GPL to > > permit the inclusion of BSD code. I assumed they did this to steal the IP > > stack. > > Most likely. N

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Mike Smith had to walk into mine and say: > > > > I am feeling a little dense today, how do you allocate a > > dma channel for a PCI busmaster device with newbus? > > It's a bus master, so you don't. The logical conclusion is that Larr

Re: [Review please] (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath manpath.config)

1999-08-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Ruslan Ermilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about the following patch. It adds an OPTIONAL_MANPATH directive, > which is equivalent to the MANDATORY_MANPATH, except an absence of the > directory is not considered an error. Sure. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscr

Re: Configuration mechanism of PCI bus

1999-08-16 Thread Stefan Esser
On 1999-08-09 22:08 -0400, Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even with "PCI System Architecture, 4th edition" at hand, I still have > some problems understanding the code in isa/pcibus.c. Please point out > any misunderstanding I may have in the following: It has been some time since

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Larry Lile wrote: > > I am feeling a little dense today, how do you allocate a > dma channel for a PCI busmaster device with newbus? You don't. PCI busmastering doesn't use dma channels. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

Re: shared memory crash

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
don't use shmget if you can. Use mmap'ed files. The SYSV shm interface is incredibly dumb. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

PCCard can't get CIS for 3com card

1999-08-16 Thread M. L. Dodson
rtoren writes: > The card came with the Dell Inspiron and is a 3com 3CCFEM656B. > Unfortunately, I don't think 3.2R is getting enough data to attempt an ID. I > saw an archived query just like my situation in the mail archives from a > year ago, but there was no reply. > Once I get past this

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going with L

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The originator claims that his ker

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > > > G

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? > > > > > > Given that they say they're dr

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becomin

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Brian McGroarty
--- Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > Can you please site a reference for this, other than > wishful > > > thinking by the Linux camp? > > > > Here's one: > > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015908,00.html

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I lost track of the quotes. > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add > > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. > > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform, that will

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The or

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:35:34 -0700 (PDT) >From: Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I also have prototype code which can store multiple password hashes in the >password file, and retrieves "secondaries" in a new field in struct >passwd. You could conceivably set it up to keep a DES password in

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-16 Thread Lofthouse Andrew 2Lt WRALC/TIECT
I didn't see any pointers other than pilot error raised in the recent thread with subject line: Subject: Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ? Perhaps those of you who're in support of the pilot error notion could have a look at PR 13174 and comment? The or

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > I'm hardly an "expert" with NIS, but it is actually fairly flexible... > as long as changes imposed are on its own terms. :-) Thanks for the information. I noticed some rumblings on the srp-dev mailing list about developing NIS support - I don't thi

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> I lost track of the quotes. > > > > | --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add > > > | key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. > > > | Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches > > > | entirely to Intel Corp.'s IA/64 platform

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > These paragraphs are contradictory. It implies an end to MIPS. > > > > Nintendo 64 uses MIPS. > > > > It also seems a bit overzealous. > > No argument here. Perhaps they're just trying to float a few trial > baloons in hopes of finding something popular/feasable. That was my take on th

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becomi

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:19 PM + 8/16/99, Terry Lambert wrote: >Begging your pardon, but: > > >| --- With the help of Veritas Software Corp., SGI will work to add >| key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. >| Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches >| entirely to Inte

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Sorry for not responding to this earlier, I missed it in my inbox. On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote: > > Where do you store the keys, or do you generate them dynamically? The > > latter would take time to verify primality. > > If by "keys" you mean the DH generator and such, they are const

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Kip Macy
I don't think that this is an appropriate forum but I will put in my two cents nonetheless. At least as of a couple of years age MIPS was the most widely used embedded processor in the world. Thus, MIPS is in no way dependent on IRIX. Not to mention that Linux runs on MIPS.

illegal ATAPI command in wdc probe?

1999-08-16 Thread Charles Randall
The VMWare guest OS page for FreeBSD (http://www.vmware.com/support/technotesfreebsd.html) states, --- One caveat with all versions of FreeBSD is that there is a problem probing for the CD-ROM device wdc1; FreeBSD sends an illegal ATAPI command to the IDE controller and ignores the error status r

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Larry Lile wrote: > I am feeling a little dense today, how do you allocate a > dma channel for a PCI busmaster device with newbus? I don't think PCI devices use the ISA DMA controller. "It just works." (EISA has this advantage too.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Nick Sayer
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Are you sure about this? Having constant p, g, x and y for every > telnet client and server surely makes it much easier to attack? In theory > you could probably pregenerate all of the arithmetic. Maybe we're not using the constant names the same way. In SRA the modul

kernel symbol `gd_curpcb' not found

1999-08-16 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have tried to debug a kernel by simulating a panic without success. I have read the handbook and searched the mailinglist. I even tried not to strip the debug kernel at all. Still I get the above message and I do not know how to go on. The following are the commands that I used: now5# gdb -

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > For an interesting take on all this visit www.mipsabi.org > Uh, that site is dead, as of the end of this month. See the > first link ("announcement"). Precisely my point ... ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Raw Packet code containing security bits

1999-08-16 Thread FreeBSD mailing lists
I wonder if anyone here could perhaps of be assistance, Im currently playing with implementing certain things in trusted bsd to do with ip security classes and how the system responds to security bits, and implementing certain things the stack etc. However my first piece of test code playing with

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> Actually, i'd expect far fewer problems for the private mounts than for > user mounts which modify the name space for all processes ... The concept of private namespaces does not exist on FreeBSD. It would require a modification of the lookup mechanism, and, potentially, a seperation of creden

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > Cool, another non-exportable system available to US users only. :-) > > Yeah... isn't it time you Yanks got together and stormed that Trade Dept? > I mean, if you can get excited over a few wooden crates containing tea... > > ;-) ;-) Pound for pound (no pun intended), Tea was much more expe

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Studenmund
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsystem > > in preparation for an all-out effort to port SGI's XFS filesystem to > > FreeBSD 4.x at such time as SGI gives up the code. Matt Dillon > > has written in hackers- that the VFS subsy

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Christian Kuhtz
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 08:22:02PM +, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is actually the problem at issue in an SMBFS implementation, > and for which the Linux guys punted: the credential in SMB is > per connection, not per user. Per connection creds suck performance wise (=I haven't seen an impleme

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
> > 2. Advisory locks are hung off private backing objects. > > > > Advisory locks are passed into VOP_ADVLOCK in each FS > > instance, and then each FS applies this by hanging the > > locks off a list on a private backing object. For FFS, > > this is the in core inode. > > > >

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > The concept of private namespaces does not exist on FreeBSD. > It would require a modification of the lookup mechanism, and, > potentially, a seperation of credentials from the process into > a session manager. Yeah but you can fake it pretty well with

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Mike Smith
> > On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The concept of private namespaces does not exist on FreeBSD. > > It would require a modification of the lookup mechanism, and, > > potentially, a seperation of credentials from the process into > > a session manager. > > Yeah but you can fake it

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > But I can't get anyone interested :-( > Uh, we're all interested; where's the code? v9fs is the first piece. The servers are done. But I'm mostly out of the freebsd hacking business at this point (except for maybe via drivers) so I need some help to ge

Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-16 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, To all you low-level kernel and bootloader hackers: what would it take to save and restore a running system image (presumably from dedicated raw partition) so that the system would continue where it left before reboot? It doesn't sound that difficult to me - after all, laptops somehow do it

Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-16 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi, > > To all you low-level kernel and bootloader hackers: what would it take to > save and restore a running system image (presumably from dedicated raw > partition) so that the system would continue where it left before reboot? > > It doesn't sound that difficult to me - after all, laptops

vnc on nat-proxy/firewall

1999-08-16 Thread Leif Neland
I need to remote-control an NT behind a unix-box running nat-proxy/firewall/gateway. Would it be possible first to connect from the outside to a vnc-server on gateway, then to run vnc-client on the gateway to connect to a vnc-server on the nt? Or is it possible to have a vnc-proxy on the gateway

Re: Raw Packet code containing security bits

1999-08-16 Thread Bosko Milekic
Hello Andrew, When filling your struct ip *iphead, try replacing: iphead->ip_len = htons(length); with: iphead->ip_len = length; or, for portability reasons, you may want to do something like: #ifdef LINUX || OpenBSD21 #define BO(x) htons(x) #else #de

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