System Crash - please help me figure it out...

2003-06-09 Thread bsd
Dear Hackers, I have experienced a system crash for the first time in 10 months (last year in august I had a vinum issue which has been resolved with your help). Fortunately I still have a kernel with debugging enabled running, and the gdbmods script, so I can submit some useful data with thi

Re: System Crash - please help me figure it out...

2003-06-09 Thread bsd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Hackers, I have experienced a system crash for the first time in 10 months (last year in august I had a vinum issue which has been resolved with your help). Fortunately I still have a kernel with debugging enabled running, and the gdbmods script, so I can s

Re: Mapping Physical Memory without a Device?

2003-06-09 Thread cd_freebsd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >> You may also want to consider pmap_map. It depends on what your >>requirements are? while Bruce M Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >>It's quite evil and not machine independent..avoid. -Who is right? (I like Juli's answer and she has FreeBSD.org in her name :) ) -W

RE: Mapping Physical Memory without a Device?

2003-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 07-Jun-2003 cd_freebsd wrote: > After sending my first note, I found pmap_mapdev. Anything wrong with using that? /* * Map a set of physical memory pages into the kernel virtual * address space. Return a pointer to where it is mapped. This * routine is intended to be used for mapping device

RE: kvm questions

2003-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 08-Jun-2003 Vlad GALU wrote: > > Hello. I am trying to write a monitoring program > which makes use of the kvm interface. My problem here > is that I couldn't find a detailed description of the > kinfo_proc structure anywhere in the system sources or > Google. I have special interests to

RE: Mapping Physical Memory without a Device?

2003-06-09 Thread cd_freebsd
John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The problem is that the RAM could be used out from under you. You need to reserve >> it in the VM somehow. I'm not sure how you would accomplish that. The areas I said I would map would not be used by the OS for virtual memory pages. BIOS, UMB, Video

Re: Mapping Physical Memory without a Device?

2003-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Jun-2003 cd_freebsd wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes > >>> You may also want to consider pmap_map. It depends on what your >>requirements >>> are? > > while Bruce M Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes > >>>It's quite evil and not machine independent..avoid. > > -Who is right? (I like Jul

Re: Mapping Physical Memory without a Device?

2003-06-09 Thread cd_freebsd
John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The first 1 meg of memory is 1:1 mapped at KERNBASE. IOW, you can get to the BIOS >> at KERNBASE + 0xc. That should cover these first two items. Even on non-i386 machines? I guess it really doesn't matter since I am reading the BIOS area to dete

Re: kvm questions

2003-06-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Vlad GALU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. I am trying to write a monitoring program > which makes use of the kvm interface. procfs is significantly less evil, if you can get the information you require from it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
Hi all. Per the subject, how much work will it be? For giggles, I grabbed the earliest burncd from CVS that supports VCD, saved off my /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd, then: # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd # make all The build puked on a few CDR* definitions, and a bunch of other stuff. Later versions

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > Hi all. > > Per the subject, how much work will it be? > > For giggles, I grabbed the earliest burncd from CVS that supports VCD, > saved off my /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd, then: > # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd > # make all > The build puked on a few CDR* definit

Re: Mapping Physical Memory without a Device?

2003-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On 09-Jun-2003 cd_freebsd wrote: > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The first 1 meg of memory is 1:1 mapped at KERNBASE. IOW, you can get to the BIOS >>> at KERNBASE >>> + 0xc. That should cover these first two items. > > Even on non-i386 machines? No, other machines don't

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jun 09, at 04:43 PM, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Per the subject, how much work will it be? > > > > For giggles, I grabbed the earliest burncd from CVS that supports VCD, > > saved off my /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd, then: > > # cd /usr/src/usr.s

ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread romero3000
(sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better) I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on ramfs. I've looked for howto's online but haven't found anything. any suggestions???

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Doing a backport to 4.5 will include changes to the ATA driver in the > > kernel as well as to burncd, and is not a trivial matter... > > I feared as much. Would this be the ATAPICAM (?) stuff done for 4.6? > OTOH, I backported the ICH sound support to 4.3; I'm no

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread The Anarcat
On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 07:24:32PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Lemme ask you this, then: Given a FBSD 4.5 system, is the CAM xpt > > module patch (T. Quinot) and cdrecord a [more] viable option? Or am > > I basically SOOL? > > I have no idea, others might have t

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Jun 09, at 01:45 PM, The Anarcat wrote: > > On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 07:24:32PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > Lemme ask you this, then: Given a FBSD 4.5 system, is the CAM xpt > > > module patch (T. Quinot) and cdrecord a [more] viable option? Or am > > > I

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Ted Faber
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better) > > I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so > that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on > ramfs.

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better) > > > > I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var a

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Juli Mallett
* Joshua Oreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-06-09 ] [ w.r.t. Re: ramdisk?? ] > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Ted Faber
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:11:32AM -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better)

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Ted Faber
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Juli Mallett wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write: > > I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you want) with: > > Or if you don't need a disklabel and all that, you could just > look at using

Re: kvm questions

2003-06-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Vlad GALU wrote: > Hello. I am trying to write a monitoring program > which makes use of the kvm interface. My problem here > is that I couldn't find a detailed description of the > kinfo_proc structure anywhere in the system sources or > Google. I have special interests towards the kp_proc

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread The Anarcat
On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 12:52:09PM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > On Jun 09, at 01:45 PM, The Anarcat wrote: > > > > On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 07:24:32PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > > Lemme ask you this, then: Given a FBSD 4.5 system, is the CAM xpt > > > > mo

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Juli Mallett
* Ted Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Date: 2003-06-09 ] [ w.r.t. Re: ramdisk?? ] > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Juli Mallett wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:04:52AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ted Faber seemed to write: > > > I mount a swap backed fs (which I what I suspect you wa

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better) > > I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so > that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on > ramfs. I've looked for howto's

Re: Multimedia Keyboard (extra keys) on console

2003-06-09 Thread JacobRhoden
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:50 am, king ferrex wrote: > no it wont, thats the problem ;) as mr.rachinsky, i need to patch my kernel > and add the raw scancodes to produce keycodes, will do that later. > thanks for the help. I would very much like to be able to use the multimedia keys on my keyboard as

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (sorry about cross-posting this question. not sure which list is better) > > I want to to know how to create a ram file system for /var and /tmp so > that i can boot from flash memory and mount those two file systems on > ramfs.