Re: [Q] Information on fb/vesa mode programming

2001-10-09 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:11:52PM +0100, Jonathan Belson wrote: > Hiya > > > I've been trying to find out some information on programming the > fb/vesa interface, eg. set_video_mode() and friends. > > >From the few examples I've seen, it appears that you have to > muck about with banks rather

Re: Heads up! My interview....

2001-10-09 Thread Marco Molteni
On 2001-10-08, Matt Dillon wrote: > OSNews interviewed me, it's up in today's page! I think it's a really > good interview but, of course, I am biased :-) > > http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=153 Matt, in the interview you talk about > native process and device-level descriptor mi

Debugging hard lockups, take 2.

2001-10-09 Thread Mike Meyer
I apologize for sending this twice, but I found out that my DNS was out all last night, meaning that anyone trying to reply during that period probably got a bounce with "no such domain". If you were such a person, DNS should be working again, so could you please try sending the reply again.

Re: reading files from win

2001-10-09 Thread brian o'shea
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:14:56AM +0200, Martin Vana wrote: > hi, > is there any utility that can read a bsd FS from win/dos? > thank you None that I have heard of. If it's really important that you access the filesystem from Windows and you have a lot of CPU and memory to spare, you could run

Re: Change to ldscript.i386

2001-10-09 Thread Mark Peek
At 9:24 AM -0700 10/8/01, Peter Wemm wrote: >Using the same next address means that you dont have to put padding in the >file itself, and can simply double map the same page when loading >executables. Thanks for the explanation...it now makes sense why this was done (at least for userland execut

Message Passing

2001-10-09 Thread Matt Busigin
Good morning fellow FreeBSDers: That was exciting. I couldn't post because my reverse DNS is buggered, so now I have to resort to using an American shell account for mail. Sloowww! :-) As a first experiment in hacking the FreeBSD kernel, I have written 'most' of a local message passing syste

Re: Message Passing

2001-10-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt Busigin wrote: > For now, after looking at SVSV IPC, I am rewriting it so that the pointers > are in the proc struct, and I am initialising them in kern_exec.c, but I > am wishing/hoping there is a more elegant manner that I can do this > completely in modules. Look at the KNOTE() code that

Re: Message Passing

2001-10-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011009 14:37] wrote: > Matt Busigin wrote: > > For now, after looking at SVSV IPC, I am rewriting it so that the pointers > > are in the proc struct, and I am initialising them in kern_exec.c, but I > > am wishing/hoping there is a more elegant manner that I ca

calendar nit?

2001-10-09 Thread Steve Ames
I was sending an e-mail to someone and wasn't sure what day Thanksgiving was so I typed 'calendar -A 45' and saw the following: Nov 8* Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November) Odd that... -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: calendar nit?

2001-10-09 Thread James Howard
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Steve Ames wrote: > I was sending an e-mail to someone and wasn't sure what day Thanksgiving > was so I typed 'calendar -A 45' and saw the following: > > Nov 8* Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November) > > Odd that... Is this tied to the missing days from 1753? Jamie

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VM question (I hate Intel 810/815 chipsets...)

2001-10-09 Thread Eugene M. Kim
What would be the best way to allocate: 1) a VM page whose physical address falls within a certain boundary, and 2) a VM object whose pages are contiguous in physical address space? Background: The !@*%^*!&#^%*&!#^$!@ Intel 810/815 graphics controller requires its instruction and hardware cursor

nfsd and mountd in the wrong place

2001-10-09 Thread Gordon Tetlow
I posted this to -arch and was met with (mostly) deafening silence. If someone could please take care of this, I would be most grateful. Since it requires a repo-copy, I guess Peter Wemm or JDP will need to be involved. -gordon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:26:

Re: VM question (I hate Intel 810/815 chipsets...)

2001-10-09 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >What would be the best way to allocate: > >1) a VM page whose physical address falls within a certain boundary, and >2) a VM object whose pages are contiguous in physical address space? > >Background: >The !@*%^*!&#^%*&!#^$!@ Intel 810/815 graphics contro

SMC SMC9462TX GigE adapter, what performance should I expect?

2001-10-09 Thread Bob Willcox
Hi All, I just installed a couple of the SMC SMC9462TX adapters in two of my systems here and am playing around with them to see what kind of performance I can get from them (I have ordered a 8-port switch but won't get it for a couple of weeks). Both systems are running FreeBSD 4.4-stable, one i

Re: VM question (I hate Intel 810/815 chipsets...)

2001-10-09 Thread Eugene M. Kim
Thank you for the reply. I also found contigmalloc() shortly after I posted the original question (what an embarrassment ;-p), then met another restriction: Because these memory regions are to be accessed by a userland process (X server), they have to be somehow mapped into the user space. So fa

wont reboot

2001-10-09 Thread george
after compiling a new kernel with only adding firewall support my thinkpad 760xd wont reboot all the way it just syncs disks and then hangs.   someone know the right flags for this? the GENERIC kernel that ships with 4.4 and below seem to all work but a new kernel made with GENERIC dont.   t

Re: VM question (I hate Intel 810/815 chipsets...)

2001-10-09 Thread Jonathan Lemon
It sounds like the right approach to me. I'm assuming that you'll be writing a kernel driver for the memory, which has a mmap entry point in the cdevsw. The driver's mmap routine would just return the address of the contigmalloc region. I believe that the bktr driver has an example of this appr

Re: VM question (I hate Intel 810/815 chipsets...)

2001-10-09 Thread Mike Smith
> What would be the best way to allocate: > > 1) a VM page whose physical address falls within a certain boundary, and > 2) a VM object whose pages are contiguous in physical address space? > > Background: > The !@*%^*!&#^%*&!#^$!@ Intel 810/815 graphics controller requires its > instruction and