Re: using beastie.4th to alternate boot i386 / amd64

2005-06-07 Thread Steven Hartland
Thanks for that Joseph, its a quicker option than what I have atm but would still like to get the menu based option to work so if anyone has any ideas please do shout. Steve / K - Original Message - From: "Joseph Koshy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are looking for a way to manage i386/

RE: using beastie.4th to alternate boot i386 / amd64

2005-06-07 Thread Kelly Hall
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:39:54 +0100 > From: "Steven Hartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: using beastie.4th to alternate boot i386 / amd64 > > load /boot/kernel/kernel > load /boot/kernel/acpi.ko > load /boot/kernel/hptmv.ko Try s" load /boot/kernel/kernel" evaluate s" load /boot/k

Use if_ath.c for on the fly transmission power change?

2005-06-07 Thread Sam Pierson
I was curious if there was a way to use the if_ath.c file in order to change transmission power on the fly in the middle of a program. This is in if_ath: ath_hal_setuptxdesc(ah, ds , pktlen/* packet length */ , hdrlen/* header len

Re: Google SoC idea

2005-06-07 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:11:23PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: +> I have an idea that I could implement through Google's "Summer of Code" +> project, but as I have little experience with stuff it involves (kernel +> programming / disks / filesystem optimization), so I expect any answer +> from "It

Re: Google SoC idea

2005-06-07 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:40:05PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > +> Does it make sense to do it this way? Is it worth applying for the SoC? > > Not sure. Basically this is simlar what softupdate does, I think. > From another point of view softupdates are only available for UFS. > You probabl

Re: Google SoC idea

2005-06-07 Thread Scott Long
David Malone wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:40:05PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: +> Does it make sense to do it this way? Is it worth applying for the SoC? Not sure. Basically this is simlar what softupdate does, I think. From another point of view softupdates are only available for UF

Re: Google SoC idea

2005-06-07 Thread David Malone
> The problem with journalling at the block layer is that you pretty much > become forced to journal metadata and data, since the block layer really > doesn't know the distinction, Definitely - I guess I should have stated that explicitly. > Full journalling has many drawbacks from the viewpoin

Re: Google SoC idea

2005-06-07 Thread Richard Coleman
Scott Long wrote: /me jumps up and down and waves his hands The problem with journalling at the block layer is that you pretty much become forced to journal metadata and data, since the block layer really doesn't know the distinction, and definitely not in a filesystem-independent way (yes, U

Re: Use if_ath.c for on the fly transmission power change?

2005-06-07 Thread Sam Leffler
Sam Pierson wrote: I was curious if there was a way to use the if_ath.c file in order to change transmission power on the fly in the middle of a program. This is in if_ath: ath_hal_setuptxdesc(ah, ds , pktlen/* packet length */ , hdrlen