Re: httpfs

2001-03-15 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I'd say it would be an excellent example of how to use portals if nothing else, given that almost nobody understands them. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: httpfs

2001-03-15 Thread Duncan Barclay
Hi A thing to keep in mind about the portal file system is that it designed to provide a means of getting a file handle to an object that could be obtained by a call to open(2). It does not then provide a means of reading/writing etc. to that object. If you take a look at the example portal.conf

Re: Needs some autoconf + pthread + etc. clue

2001-03-15 Thread Panagiotis Astithas
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:39:16PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > The other hack I'm trying to get rid of is in the Makefile: > > post-patch: > @ ${CP} ${WRKSRC}/configure ${WRKSRC}/configure.Patched > @ ${SED} -e 's#-lpthread#-pthread#g' \ > ${WRKSRC}/configure.Patch

Re: httpfs

2001-03-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:38:21AM -, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Hi > > A thing to keep in mind about the portal file system is that it > designed to provide a means of getting a file handle to an object that > could be obtained by a call to open(2). It does not then provide > a means of reading

Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help

2001-03-15 Thread Ekaterina Ivannikova
Hi, I've been following this thread with great interest (many thanks to Matt!), and it reminded me of some rumours of a book being written by Kirk McKusick and some other people on the design of FreeBSD OS. Hopefully this book will cover the subject of VM in great detail. Does anybody know if the

Little confused

2001-03-15 Thread milunovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm reading kernel source,but I don't understand something like this -> example: #define GG(x,y) \ static void * const blabla_##x_blabla_##y = &y; As I see this should make something like this GG(foo,bar) should make static void * const blabla_foo_blabla_ba

MP & FreeBSD

2001-03-15 Thread Dorr H. Clark
Hi- I have some questions about multi-processing and FreeBSD. If I am using the wrong list(s) to ask this, please let me know. All these questions pertain to the x86 variant of FreeBSD. I am interested in booting and running FreeBSD on a two-processor Tyan motherboard. I would like to know t

Re: MP & FreeBSD

2001-03-15 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:25:13AM -0800, Dorr H. Clark wrote: > > Hi- > > I have some questions about multi-processing > and FreeBSD. If I am using the wrong list(s) > to ask this, please let me know. All these > questions pertain to the x86 variant of FreeBSD. > > I am interested in booting

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Re: Little confused

2001-03-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
milunovic wrote: > > I'm reading kernel source,but I don't understand something like this -> > > example: > #define GG(x,y) \ > static void * const blabla_##x_blabla_##y = &y; > > As I see this should make something like this > > GG(foo,bar) should make > static void * const blabla_foo_blabl

bus_space_alloc (formerly bus_space_foo)

2001-03-15 Thread Orion Hodson
Hi I've been writing a driver for the S3 Sonicvibes audio card. The card is PCI, but has 7 io ports. The PCI initialization stops after 5 ports have been mapped out (constants are hardcoded in sys/pci so reasonable to assume this fits with PCI spec). The netbsd version of this driver uses bus

Re: device driver dev. book

2001-03-15 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Jerry Toung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone of you know about a book that would deal specifically > with FreeBSD device drivers dev.? > If yes let me know. Not books, but there are some tutorials/manpages available. See: http://www.FreeBSD.org/tutorials/ and section 9 of the manual

Re: Kernel area libmish stuff (Cordic algorithm)

2001-03-15 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! Peter Jeremy wrote: > For a totally different approach, try Cordic algorithms. Cordic > algorithms let you implement circular and hyperbolic functions > (including exponential, log and sqrt) using add, subtract, shift and > table lookup. (An n-bit result needs an n-entry x n-bit table, 2

Re: device driver dev. book

2001-03-15 Thread Jerry Toung
Some body just told me that williams Paul from Columbia University (Bill Paul @ Freebsd.org) has written that kind of book. But I can't get his exact email address at FreeBSD.org to ask him the reference. Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Jerry Toung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Does anyone of

Request

2001-03-15 Thread Saikat Kanjilal
To Whom It May Concern: I am writing this letter to volunteer my time to the following areas of the freeBSD project Implement Int13 vm86 disk driver. Port existing ISA drivers to new architecture. Move all interrupt-management code to appropriate parts of the bus drivers. Port PCI subsystem

What are 'compatibility shims" ?

2001-03-15 Thread Murray Taylor
When using 4.3-BETA cvsupped 23/mar and config'ed options NETGRAPH and added the sr and sppp drivers for the frame relay link we are establishing. Dmesg gives me this line src0: dirver is using old-style compatibility shims What are these shims? mjt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Request

2001-03-15 Thread Thierry Herbelot
The recommended work for any new developper of FreeBSD (did I say welcome ?) is to search in the PR (problem reports) database on the FreeBSD web site, to take one problem and then give a solution (generally as a patch to the sources of the OS) when you are done, find some committer of FreeBSD an

Netgraph error message

2001-03-15 Thread Murray Taylor
I get the following messages when I fire up ngctl module_register: module netgraph already exists and linker_file_sysinit: "netgraph.ko" failed to register 17 I am using 4.3-BETA as at 13/mar and have options NETGRAPH in my kernel config I am using the ngctl command to configure a frame rela

Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ?

2001-03-15 Thread Dennis
It means that they havent converted the driver to the new "bus" format and are still using 3.x driver types. At 06:09 PM 03/15/2001, you wrote: >When using 4.3-BETA cvsupped 23/mar and >config'ed > >options NETGRAPH > >and added the sr and sppp drivers for the frame relay >link we are establishi

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natd divert injecting clarifications

2001-03-15 Thread Nick Rogness
Just to be sure I have it right. When the kernel diverts the packet to natd, via ipfw: 1) kernel sends packet to natd 2) natd read() the packet 3) natd screws with it (changes dest addr,etc) 4) natd write() the packet 5) kernel reinjects the packet back into the firewall That's what I could ge

Re: status of KSE?

2001-03-15 Thread Julian Elischer
David Xu wrote: > >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. > > -- > Best regards, > David Xu KSE is not into coding yet. we have a basic design an

Re[2]: status of KSE?

2001-03-15 Thread David Xu
Hello Julian, Friday, March 16, 2001, 12:18:15 PM, you wrote: JE> David Xu wrote: >> >>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. >> >> -- >> Best

Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ?

2001-03-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Murray Taylor wrote: > > When using 4.3-BETA cvsupped 23/mar and > config'ed > > options NETGRAPH > > and added the sr and sppp drivers for the frame relay > link we are establishing. > > Dmesg gives me this line > > src0: dirver is using old-style compatibility shims > > What are these shim

Re: What are 'compatibility shims" ?

2001-03-15 Thread John Hay
> When using 4.3-BETA cvsupped 23/mar and > config'ed > > options NETGRAPH > > and added the sr and sppp drivers for the frame relay > link we are establishing. > > Dmesg gives me this line > > src0: dirver is using old-style compatibility shims > > > What are these shims? It is just the

Re: Netgraph error message

2001-03-15 Thread Udo Erdelhoff
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:39:10AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > I get the following messages when I fire up ngctl > > module_register: module netgraph already exists > linker_file_sysinit: "netgraph.ko" failed to register 17 > > I am using 4.3-BETA as at 13/mar > and have options NETGRAPH in my

Re: natd divert injecting clarifications

2001-03-15 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
[Redirected to -net] On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:48:24PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > > Just to be sure I have it right. When the kernel diverts the packet to > natd, via ipfw: > > 1) kernel sends packet to natd > 2) natd read() the packet > 3) natd screws with it (changes dest addr,etc) > 4) n