removal of kvtop() on i386

2000-07-14 Thread Alexander Langer
Hello! I recently wanted to port the if_ed driver to alpha. FreeBSD/alpha still misses kvtop(), so I implemented it. However, bde told me, that the whole function kvtop() is wrong, since "0" is a legitimate physical address and therefore the panic is misplaced. That means, kvtop() is obsolete.

fsck_ext2fs

2000-07-14 Thread Roman Shterenzon
Hello, I was looking for fsck_ext2fs and found that openbsd has it. So, I tried to compile it on freebsd, and it compiled very easy. I needed just some minor modifications to make it work. I send the tarball which has the modified version together with the patchfile. It seems to work for me. Perha

Re: fsck_ext2fs

2000-07-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Roman Shterenzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000714 04:19] wrote: > Hello, > I was looking for fsck_ext2fs and found that openbsd has it. > So, I tried to compile it on freebsd, and it compiled very easy. > I needed just some minor modifications to make it work. > I send the tarball which has the modif

Where is the syncer kernel process implemented?

2000-07-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I need to replace the update(4) manual page with a syncer(4) manual page. Can someone please point me at the code that implements this process? Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Where is the syncer kernel process implemented?

2000-07-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000714 05:33] wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I need to replace the update(4) manual page with a syncer(4) manual > page. Can someone please point me at the code that implements this > process? It's in src/sys/kern/vfs_sbur.c /* * System filesystem synchronizer

Re: Where is the syncer kernel process implemented?

2000-07-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:38:58 MST, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > /* > * System filesystem synchronizer daemon. > */ > void > sched_sync(void) It seems that the default sync delay, syncer_maxdelay, is no longer controllable via sysctl(8). Are there complex issues restricting the changing of this

Re: Where is the syncer kernel process implemented?

2000-07-14 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:32:11 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I need to replace the update(4) manual page with a syncer(4) manual > page. Can someone please point me at the code that implements this > process? Alfred Perlstein pointed me at the correct code. I used the update(4) manual page as

Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ?

2000-07-14 Thread Ben Smithurst
James Howard wrote: > Now please place answers to the following questions in FAQ? What are > fairings? Why does it matter what color the bikeshed is? What does > non-reflexive? (Can you tell I read the follow question?:) Perhaps if I knew the answers myself, I would. :-) -- Ben Smithurst

Re: why isnt there a ext2fs.ko ?

2000-07-14 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake James Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > day or so and I will update it work with a newer FreeBSD. On this topic, > how would anyone feel about importing NetBSD's GPL-clean ext2fs source? Cool! Is it stable? What is better than w/ our ext2fs stuff? Alex -- cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such

Re: Interrupt Handler?

2000-07-14 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Where/How does one implement a hardware interrupt handler? I haven't done this > sort of thing since the days of DOS. I imagine its a lot different in *nix. :) Yes, you write a kernel device driver. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Pow

Vinum problem

2000-07-14 Thread Josef Grosch
Hello, I am trying to set up a "Raid10" using vinum and it is just not working. If you could point me in the right direction... The config file looks like this drive d1 device /dev/da1e drive d2 device /dev/da2e drive d3 device /dev/da3e drive d4 device /dev/da4e volume d101 plex

Re: Vinum problem

2000-07-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 July 2000 at 15:14:39 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > Greg, > > I am trying to set up a "Raid10" using vinum and it is just not working. If > you could point me in the right direction... > > The config file looks like this > > > 1 volumes: > V d101 State: up

Re: Vinum problem

2000-07-14 Thread Alan Edmonds
You have to issue the "init" command to initialize a RAID setup under vinum. See the man page vinum(8) for details. -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

fbsdboot.exe

2000-07-14 Thread David E. Cross
Yes, I know it is a long dead horse. I was just looking for a copy of the modifications that were made by Carlos Tapang. Could someone point me at them, or know Carlos's current email adress? -- David Cross | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab Director

Possible bug - check me 4.1 7/14 RC

2000-07-14 Thread Brian J. McGovern
When compiling kernels, either by cd'ing to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf, config'ing, and make depending, etc, or by going to /usr/src and saying "make KERNEL=MEC buildkernel", I get: cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -

Re: Possible bug - check me 4.1 7/14 RC

2000-07-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
I've had this happen to me. It turned out to be a bad source tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Possible bug - check me 4.1 7/14 RC

2000-07-14 Thread Brian J. McGovern
> > I've had this happen to me. It turned out to be a bad source tree. > If this is true, then the first 4.1 RC snapshot has a bad source tree. -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Possible bug - check me 4.1 7/14 RC

2000-07-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > > I've had this happen to me. It turned out to be a bad source tree. > > > > If this is true, then the first 4.1 RC snapshot has a bad source tree. Hmm. Minor problem. Ship it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

RE: chapter about using the fixit floppy?

2000-07-14 Thread Gardner Buchanan
On 04:40:42 John Reynolds wrote: > > Is there a chapter of the Handbook that details how to use the "fixit" > floppy? > I just recently had an "interesting" fixit experience as well. Device entries are just part of it. I think a general outline of the "fixit" environment is needed, together w

DEVFS

2000-07-14 Thread Coleman Kane
Who is currently working on the DEVFS? I emailed the last person to commit to the HOWTO and got no response. I'd like to look into finisheing this, and may start hacking if no one tells me otherwise... -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscri

port of MPPE (microsoft VPN encryption) to FreeBSD

2000-07-14 Thread Ben Jackson
I needed MPPE to tunnel into work and found: http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/releases/ppp-2.3.10-openssl-norc4-mppe.patch.gz which applies to ppp-2.3.10 and adds MS CHAP v1 and v2 and MPPE to pppd and the related kernel code. Imagine my surprise when I found that only the CHAP parts were portable

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Coleman Kane writes: >Who is currently working on the DEVFS? I emailed the last person >to commit to the HOWTO and got no response. I'd like to look into >finisheing this, and may start hacking if no one tells me otherwise... bp@ has a non-working prototype, (as h