On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:51:19PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Well... when you 'gzip -9' something, it just takes longer, it doesn't
> sometimes corrupt your data (afaik).
Hmm. gzip seems to be pretty good about those things. I guess it's one
of the few GNU programs to be that way. :^)
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:19:31AM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> However, even the pgcc web page describes -O2 as safe.
I won't even to there...
> Yes, scanning thru the ML leads me to believe some of these optimizations
> are pretty much untested. Which is kinda funny, since the ia32 bits are
-On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation
>is to publically declare our support for those vendors who *do*
>release documentation under reasonable terms. One way to do this
>is to acknowledge those vendo
Dear All,
In the interest of a unified BSD ports tree, is anyone working to integrate
the diffs for the make from openpackages into the FreeBSD codebase?
Kees Jan
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but you can stay immature all your life.
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On 14 Mar 2001, at 13:23, Koster, K.J. wrote:
> In the interest of a unified BSD ports tree, is anyone working to integrate
> the diffs for the make from openpackages into the FreeBSD codebase?
I think people might be waiting for us go get to the point where our work
is actually usable.
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Hi,
>:Mem: 138M Active, 661M Inact, 114M Wired, 48M Cache, 112M Buf, 44M Free
>:Swap: 1612M Total, 16K Used, 1612M Free
>:
>:Yes I know it has too much memory, but I'm surprised why more isn't used
>:for disk caching
It will use all available memory for disk caching if possible, but it
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Sears wrote:
> THANKS! and compliments on your name. It was a quick and simple
> port to see if people were interested. I've sent it to the
> author/maintainer Dan Hollis but I haven't gotten a response yet.
> He has an email list on Yahoo/Groups and there is occasiona
At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>-On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation
> >is to publically declare our support for those vendors who *do*
> >release documentation under reason
* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 08:14] wrote:
>
> A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions
> (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best products
> could be available for FreeBSD without the adversity of the
> "geek-revolution" that
At 11:32 AM 03/14/2001, you wrote:
>Dennis wrote:
> >
> > At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> > >-On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > >Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation
> > > >is to publically declare our su
At 12:09 PM 03/14/2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 08:14] wrote:
> >
> > A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions
> > (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best products
> > could be available for FreeBSD w
* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 09:21] wrote:
> At 12:09 PM 03/14/2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 08:14] wrote:
> > >
> > > A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions
> > > (who may release source under NDA if they chose) s
:It will use all available memory for disk caching if possible, but it
:only caches things you've accessed at least once so I would say you
:simply haven't accessed more then 650MB or so worth of file data.
:
:Is it correct to say that cached file data (file content)
:is taken into a
greet.
anybody? I end up compilling kde2.1 on 2.2.x with few
strange sigsegv from the aout assembler. I took the hint
and try to repeat the same manner using 4.x and -CURRENT
Seems like it's deal with pic generated code.
( /usr/libexec/aout/as , using gcc-2.95.2 and egcs-1.1.2 )
I already fix it
> You cant strong-arm companies into making their intellectual properly
> rights publicly available. its a losing argument.
Strange, in that it worked for a number of video-card vendors when
XFree86 either dropped support and/or never supported the card in
question.
Nate
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)
ALL the time. Microsoft has given the UC-Davis security and formal
verification lab a multi-year grant to look at this p
* David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 10:47] wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> > rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)
>
> ALL the time. Microsoft has given the UC-Davis secur
-On [20010314 17:38], Dennis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>
>>That's what Soeren and me did. HighPoint was very forthcoming with
>>documentation and as part of that synergy they put the FreeBSD Hardware
>>
Mike (and Paul)
> I'm fixing this so that it doesn't use the 2.x PCI compatibility
> interface; there's a lot of other real ugliness in here, some of which is
> probably worth throwing out.
I'm not exactly sure what you meant here. Do you mean the pci_readcfg calls?
I thought they were low-lev
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:46:16AM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2001, at 13:23, Koster, K.J. wrote:
>
> > In the interest of a unified BSD ports tree, is anyone working to integrate
> > the diffs for the make from openpackages into the FreeBSD codebase?
>
> I think people might be wait
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:37:34AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > ALL the time. Microsoft has given the UC-Davis security and formal
> > verification lab a multi-year grant to look at this problem.
> > (the approach being researched is "model checking")
>
> How does one get the forms for the
Hey not sure this is the right list but here we go:
bladerunner:~ $ftp ftp.freebsd.org
Bad system call (core dumped)
keeps comming with most commands after i used the 4.1-REL -> 4.x-STABLE
upgrade kit - any ideas how to salvage this system ?
Michael Aronsen
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At 02:31 PM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>-On [20010314 17:38], Dennis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> >
> >>That's what Soeren and me did. HighPoint was very forthcoming with
> >>document
At 01:47 PM 03/14/2001, you wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> > rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)
>
>ALL the time. Microsoft has given the UC-Davis security and formal
>verificati
At 02:31 PM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>-On [20010314 17:38], Dennis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> >
> >>That's what Soeren and me did. HighPoint was very forthcoming with
> >>document
* Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 13:36] wrote:
> At 01:47 PM 03/14/2001, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> > > rather than flaws in the core OS? (*)
> >
> >ALL the time. M
I've been working on getting Giganet Clan VI adapters working on
FreeBSD. My driver seems solid, but I have run into some snags with
the connection manager.
Giganet recently hinted that somebody else was working on this as
well. If you're working on Clan support for FreeBSD & you're reading
thi
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> * Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 13:36] wrote:
> > At 01:47 PM 03/14/2001, you wrote:
> > >On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > > how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers
> > > > rather than flaws in t
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:58:40AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> I won't even to there...
Well, the only reason I mentioned it.. was that the pgcc folks don't seem
to be too delusioned about the dangers. -ON (N > 2) is regarded as at
least possibly in danger of generating incorrect code.
> Not
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:41:53PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> With 2000 and above, your system will check for non-digitally signed
> dll's and etc.
Being signed has nothing to do with correctly working.
The project I was speaking about wanted to be able to do something about
you buying that won
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:51:14PM -0500, Dennis wrote:
> Why would they need to do that? Every time you load a program it updates
> the libraries, breaking older programs. Its a philosophical problem. You
> dont need a grant to figure it out.
You JUST DON'T GET IT [academic research]. And any
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:12:41PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> > Not untested -- but you should go grab a graduate text on compiler
> > optimizations and familiarize yourself with the complexity of the problem.
>
> Care to recommend any starting places. You've piqued my interest.
http://www.ama
Hi,
i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't
find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons.
so how do i talk to the parallel port?
Thanks,
Dave Seddon
here's the really simple bit of code i'm trying to use:
#include
#include /* needed for ioperm() */
#inclu
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 16:11] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't
> find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons.
>
> so how do i talk to the parallel port?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Seddon
Generally it's a good idea to use "ma
> Hi,
>
> i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't
> find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons.
>
> so how do i talk to the parallel port?
See /usr/share/examples/ppi, and the ppi(4) manpage.
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Hi Readers,
Does anyone of you know about a book that would deal specifically
with FreeBSD device drivers dev.?
If yes let me know.
Most of the books in the field are written
for Linux and so on.
Thanks.
Jerry.
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>* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010314 16:11] wrote:
>> i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't
>> find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons.
>>
>> so how do i talk to the parallel port?
>Generally i
Chris Dillon wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Sears wrote:
>
> > Yes, I did notice that there was no licensing. I will broach that
> > with him. I can live with GPL since I see this as being a KLD
> > which can be installed from source. But I prefer BSD.
>
> Since not everybody would wa
I wonder status of KSE, I am dreaming rewrite our application
server using kqueue+pthread(KSE), current, we use poll()+pthread
because pthread does not work with kqueue at present.
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I'm trying to reduce the number of patches in one of my ports, but neither
I nor the author of the software knows the solution to this problem. The
patch I'm trying to eliminate is:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/xscreensaver/files/patch-ab?rev=1.7
that refers to -lXmu -lXt and
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 03:15:15AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to
> have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have
> this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs
> works by handing off
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