NEC 260 CDROM detection under FreeBSD 4.0-RELESE/STABLE

2000-04-17 Thread Alexey N. Dokuchaev
Hello! I've been using FreeBSD 3.4 for quite a while, and my CDROM, being quite old and weird (NEC 260 model) was detected by both BIOS and FreeBSD. Recently, I've decided to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0, and also changed my motherboad, now it is ASUS TXP4, was latest version of award bios, and now it

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-17 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2000, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris Kennaway) writes: > > > > > Can you say "gimmick"? :-) gcc often produces demonstrably broken code for > > > optimisation levels higher than -O. > > > > That -O is s

Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

2000-04-17 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Halstead wrote: > /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../libguile -O >-pipe -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -c qtmds.s > rm -f .libs/qtmds.lo > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../libguile -O -pipe -Wall -Wpointer-arith >-Wmis

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-17 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: > Hi! > > AFAIK, Linux Mandrake has it's kernel and userland highly optimized for > Pentium architecture. However, they have additional gcc optimization > flags turned on by default, including -O3 and -mfast_math. That they care for -mfast-m

Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

2000-04-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Cracauer writes: : In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Halstead wrote: : > /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../libguile -O :-pipe -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -c qtmds.s : > rm -f .libs/qtmds.lo : > cc -DHAVE_CONFIG

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

2000-04-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: j > > I have exactly the same problem hacking squid code under 4.0-CURRENT > > and 5.0-CURRENT. Basically, inside the dns routines a variable > > would be corrupted between a couple of non-relevant lines, and cause > > squid to segfault after trying to

Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

2000-04-17 Thread Charlie Root
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 17 11:07:13 2000 >To: Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port >Cc: James Halstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:24:36 +0200." > <[EMA

Re: Shared /bin and /sbin

2000-04-17 Thread Roger Marquis
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I much prefer the FreeBSD way of doing things. There should be only one >lib -- /usr/lib, and things critical to booting should be compiled static. Agreed, multiple dynamic OS library paths would also violate the KIS principle. >Obviously people with s

Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

2000-04-17 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Charlie Root writes: : I can't remember exactly but i think that the compiler was in the : wait state and not taking any process time. I could be wrong. could : check if sombody wants me too. When I checked into the problem here, cc1plus was eating 100% of the cpu t

Re: Proposed new Bourne shell init files

2000-04-17 Thread Roger Marquis
Christian Weisgerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Commentary on my files. . . Using allexport instead of an explicit >> 'export' for every variable makes the file easier to read, and gives a >> novice user one less thing to worry about. "allexport" se

bad link in 'in the press'?

2000-04-17 Thread Julian Elischer
The article referenced in FreeBSD's "in the press" section for March 29 seems to point to a domain name that returns as unkown for me.. sfbg.com (It's registered, but I can't ping it from anywhere..) is that the corrent reference? -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: bad link in 'in the press'?

2000-04-17 Thread James Housley
Julian Elischer wrote: > > The article referenced in FreeBSD's "in the press" > section for March 29 seems to point to a domain name that returns > as unkown for me.. > > sfbg.com > (It's registered, but I can't ping it from anywhere..) > is that the corrent reference? > Works fine for me. Th

Re: bad link in 'in the press'?

2000-04-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
sfbg is the Bay Guardian... looks like their name server is down- both of them are the same address On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: > The article referenced in FreeBSD's "in the press" > section for March 29 seems to point to a domain name that returns > as unkown for me.. >

Re: bad link in 'in the press'?

2000-04-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
Their ISP's T1 is down. On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: > The article referenced in FreeBSD's "in the press" > section for March 29 seems to point to a domain name that returns > as unkown for me.. > > sfbg.com > (It's registered, but I can't ping it from anywhere..) > is that th

Re: vnode_free_list corruption [patch]

2000-04-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Fri, Apr 14, 2000, Dave Chapeskie wrote: > :> Greetings. > :> > :> I've been seeing a rash of "free vnode isn't" panics lately. Some > :> machines were panicing several times a day. Along with this we saw > :> occasional "object inconsistent