Re: Anyone working on a DOMEX scsi driver ?

2000-01-17 Thread Alex
Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just bought a Mustek SCSI scanner, and it is bundled with a > seemingly very simple SCSI controller built by a DOMEX company (from > Taiwan) > > Does someone know where there could be some info ? (perhaps a driver > under Linux ?) > > TfH >

The encripted passwd files

2000-01-17 Thread Nguyen Manh Tho
Dear Sirs/Madams, I need to read the encripted passwd field in Linux before converting to Free BSD format, and I have some problem here. This is the documents I read from man 5 passwd form Free BSD 2.2.7 BEGIN HERE . The passwd files are files consisting of newline separated reco

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-17 Thread Daniel M. Eischen
> First, I must say that this all concernes quite current > CURRENT (Jan 9 or so). I don't know if the same holds for > older versions. > > I'm kind of puzzled. > > I've a simple sample program (see at the bottom). It creates 10 > threads with start function start_my_thread(), and then runs the

Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines

2000-01-17 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Hummm... I just tried doing a "locate" to see if this library was already > installed on my FreeBSD 3.3 system, and it _did_ find it, but it looks > like it is mixed in with the Linux compatability stuff: > > /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib/libbfd.

PR kern/15656

2000-01-17 Thread Charles Youse
In this PR, regarding IP header checksums, it's stated that a checksum of 0 is specified by the standard to be transmitted as all-1s (0x). (A checksum of all 0s is taken to mean that the transmitting host did not calculate a checksum.) Can anyone find a reference to this in the official doc

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-17 Thread ROGIER MULHUIJZEN
>OK, with everyones help (well, waiting for the right time of day ;-)), I >was able to reproduce this. The initial threads last active time was >not getting initialized to a sane value, causing negative computations >of the threads timeslice depending on what time of day it was. Funny >thing was

Re: ypldap

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher T. Griffiths
Yes, This would very much interest me. Thanks Chris On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Chrisy Luke wrote: > Any interest in a hack of ypserv that effectively gateways > master.passwd, passwd and (shortly, anyway) group maps to > an LDAP DB? If so, I'll make it available. > > Very configurable. :-) Got it

Re: Hackers in space?

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan Dorfman
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 10:30:15PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > irc.core.com died, long live the king. Where did my favorite IRC channel > disappear to? IRC servers are linked together in networks. Just pick another EFnet server -- www.irchelp.org will have a list. > -- > "Where am I

Re: PR kern/15656

2000-01-17 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> > In this PR, regarding IP header checksums, it's stated that a checksum of > 0 is specified by the standard to be transmitted as all-1s (0x). (A > checksum of all 0s is taken to mean that the transmitting host did not > calculate a checksum.) > > Can anyone find a reference to this in th

Re: PR kern/15656

2000-01-17 Thread Charles Youse
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > So, if you implemented as it is described, computing a sum of the > packet contents who's result is 0x would then be complemented to > 0x for inclusion in the packet header. Agreed; however, the PR states that should the checksum be 0xFF

Multiplexers

2000-01-17 Thread Nathan Cohen
I've been interested in becomng a FreeBSD-Hacker for awhile now, and now that I have a pretty good understanding of C, I've been reading Tanenbaum's books on Computer Organization and Operating Systems. However, I've run into a problem on the digital-logic level of things. >From my understandin

PR/15656

2000-01-17 Thread Charles Youse
As it turns out, the submitter of the PR has notified me that this PR was indeed created in error. No bug exists. Thanks for tuning in, Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PR kern/15656

2000-01-17 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> Agreed; however, the PR states that should the checksum be 0x, the > complement of which is 0x, the checksum should still be sent as > 0x. Ok, I looked at the PR, which seems to refer to the TCP header checksum, rather than the checksum in the IP header. So please disregard the sp

Re: Major number for PCDMX driver?

2000-01-17 Thread Mark Davis
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Doug Russell wrote: > > I've written a driver for SoundLight's PCDMX DMX512 boards. (DMX512 > > WooHoo! :) > I was hoping someone would get a DMX512 controller working before I had to > break down and do it myself. :) > > I've never seen a SoundLight board. PCI? Reaso

Re: Hackers in space?

2000-01-17 Thread Pat Lynch
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Re: Anyone working on a DOMEX scsi driver ?

2000-01-17 Thread Doug Russell
> > I've just bought a Mustek SCSI scanner, and it is bundled with a > > seemingly very simple SCSI controller built by a DOMEX company (from > > Taiwan) > > Throw it away. > Throw it as far as you can, then drive over it with you car. :) > > > PS : the board identifier is DMX3191D - the chip

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-17 Thread Brian Beattie
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > One fact that I found out the hard way however... and that ISN'T in the > FAQ... is that if you have a SCSI drive that was low-level formatted > while your SCSI _controller_ was set with ``BIOS address translation'' > either on or off, and if yo

The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Iani Brankov
Hi, after making world of a CURRENT cvsupped yesterday, one of my applications stopped working because of a Segmentation fault. The C procedure where the problem pops has about 64k local variables. here's the assembly output of the procedure's beginning: 0x805bb60 : pushl %ebp 0x805bb61 : mo

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Daniel Eischen
> Hi, > > after making world of a CURRENT cvsupped yesterday, one of my > applications stopped working because of a Segmentation fault. > > The C procedure where the problem pops has about 64k local variables. > here's the assembly output of the procedure's beginning: > > 0x805bb60 : pushl %

Re: Major number for PCDMX driver?

2000-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
> > Hi, > > I've written a driver for SoundLight's PCDMX DMX512 boards. (DMX512 > is a serial protocol used for driving theater and show lighting > systems.) I plan to make it available via SoundLight's web site. > > The potential user base for this is not large enough to warrant > inclusion

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :after making world of a CURRENT cvsupped yesterday, one of my :applications stopped working because of a Segmentation fault. : :The C procedure where the problem pops has about 64k local variables. :here's the assembly output of the procedure's beginning: : :0x805bb60 : pushl %ebp :0x80

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Iani Brankov
Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > after making world of a CURRENT cvsupped yesterday, one of my > > applications stopped working because of a Segmentation fault. > > > > The C procedure where the problem pops has about 64k local variables. > > here's the assembly output of the procedure's b

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Jason Evans
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:36:43AM +0200, Iani Brankov wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > after making world of a CURRENT cvsupped yesterday, one of my > > > applications stopped working because of a Segmentation fault. > > > > > > The C procedure where the problem pops has

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Iani Brankov
Matthew Dillon wrote: [snip] > At your csh prompt type 'limit'. If you are using bash type 'ulimit -a'. > > When I compile and run your program it works fine on my box. I tried > compiling it -O0, -O1, and -O2. > > % cc x.c -o x -O0 > % ./x > % Here's the ~>ulimit

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Iani Brankov
Jason Evans wrote: [snip] > > Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB. libc_r now uses growable stacks > with "guard pages" between stacks to try to catch stack overflow. It looks > like it did you some good. =) > > You will need to specify an alternate stack during thread creation to get

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Jason Evans wrote: : :[snip] : :> :> Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB. libc_r now uses growable stacks :> with "guard pages" between stacks to try to catch stack overflow. It looks :> like it did you some good. =) :> :> You will need to specify an alternate stack during thread creati

Re: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-17 Thread Daniel M. Eischen
Iani Brankov wrote: > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > [snip] > > > At your csh prompt type 'limit'. If you are using bash type 'ulimit -a'. > > > > When I compile and run your program it works fine on my box. I tried > > compiling it -O0, -O1, and -O2. > > > > % cc x.c -o x -O0 >

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-17 Thread Chris Sedore
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Chris Sedore wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > > > 1) Does this seem like a reasonable approach? [It _works_, and well. But > > > it tastes strongly of hack.] > > > > I'm not very fond of this approach to the problem, though it can

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-17 Thread Alexander Litvin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > OK, with everyones help (well, waiting for the right time of day ;-)), I > was able to reproduce this. The initial threads last active time was > not getting initialized to a sane value, causing negative computations > of the threads timeslice dependin

how to allocate an alined address for a device?

2000-01-17 Thread YAMAMOTO Shigeru
I have a question about a resource allocation for a device. In a CardBus system, a start address of status register must be aligned on 4KB boundaries. Such kind of address alignment is required at mapping meory window, expansion ROM and etc. I think we use bus_alloc_resource() to map a memory o