Re: [patch] Adding optimized kernel copying support - Part III

:AFAIR the DFly FPU rework allows to use FPU/XMM instructions in their :kernel without the need to do some manual state preserving (it's done :... : :Bye, :Alexander. That actually isn't quite how it works. If the userland had active FP state then the kernel still has to save it befor

Re: [patch] Adding optimized kernel copying support - Part III

2006/6/6, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: :AFAIR the DFly FPU rework allows to use FPU/XMM instructions in their :kernel without the need to do some manual state preserving (it's done :... : :Bye, :Alexander. That actually isn't quite how it works. If the userland had active FP state

Re: D-Link DSL210 USB in FreeBSD 6.x ?

> Is sat a wireless network USB adapter? If so, then there is no way to run USB > Wi_Fi in FreeBSD nor in Linux, only PCI or PCMCIA adapters are supported for > now as far as I know. Even with Windows native drivers. But no USB... I used NetGear 'WG111' USB successfully (without encryption, thoug

Re: Question about synchronization (nfssvc, vfs_busy)

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:30:45PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:01:36PM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > > 2. > > > > If vfs_busy() is called without LK_NOWAIT flag, then it can sleep > > if a filesystem is being unmounted. At some point unmount() will > If vfs_b

iSCSI/sosend(...), was iSCSI/sendto(...)

> Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Hi, > > on a fairly new 6.1-stable, and probably before, once in a > > blue moon, sendto return error 64 (EHOSTDOWN?). but the packet seems to have > > been received by the target, since i get a response, and further more, > > everything keeps on working. > > > >

Re: Question about synchronization (nfssvc, vfs_busy)

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:25:29AM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:30:45PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:01:36PM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > > > 2. > > > > > > If vfs_busy() is called without LK_NOWAIT flag, then it can sleep > >

Re: freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:44:04PM -0400, sara lidgey wrote: +> Hi All, +> +> I've been running a server using FreeBSD 5.3 and gmirror to mirror two identical IDE hard drives. Its been running great for over a year. But recently everything went down and when I reboot and put a monitor on it

problem with SCSI

Sorry for some offtopic. Experiencing some troubles with SCSI disks on FBSD 4.8 and looking for advice/solution how to fix/diagnose-more... What (maybe not) causes troubles: okey# make clean ===> Cleaning for m4-1.4_1 rm: /usr/ports/devel/m4/work: Directory not empty *** Error code 1 Stop

Re: bus_dmamap_load_uio and uiomove

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:49:22PM +0200, Jimmy Olgeni wrote: +> +> Hello, +> +> Just quick busdma question... +> +> I'm currently upgrading a custom device driver to use bus_dmamap_load_uio rather than uiomove. Everything works fine, but calls to "write" fail unless I set uio->uio_resid +> t

SoC: strange magic with objcopy and module builds

Hi, I am working on SoC linuxolator and I found strange thing I dont know how to cope with: I made a patch which enables module build of linuxolator on amd64 but it refuses to kldload because of missing symbol. I tracked the problem down to the fact that i386 module build works in a way that it b

Re: problem with SCSI

Oleg D. wrote: > > Sorry for some offtopic. > > Experiencing some troubles with SCSI disks on FBSD 4.8 This version is way past its useful life. You should seriously plan to upgrade at the earliest possible moment. > and looking for advice/solution how to fix/diagnose-more... > > What (maybe n

Fwd: misc questions about the device&driver arch

-- Forwarded message -- From: william wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 7, 2006 11:13 AM Subject: Re: misc questions about the device&driver arch To: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> now i amreally in trouble.the cardb