``Stopping RAM access''

2007-10-30 Thread Jaroszewski Łukasz
Hi, Can anyone give me a clue, how one can ``stop'' system from accessing RAM, and then allow it again? What I want to manage is ``RAM test on demand''. I just need a point where should I start, or rather in general terms how can I freeze system for a while to make that test. I am very new i

``Stopping RAM access''

2007-10-30 Thread Jaroszewski Łukasz
Hi, Can anyone give me a clue, how one can ``stop'' system from accessing RAM, and then allow it again? What I want to manage is ``RAM test on demand''. I just need a point where should I start, or rather in general terms how can I freeze system for a while to make that test. I am very new i

MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Santa Rosa

2007-10-30 Thread Bert JW Regeer
Hey, As I had recently purchased a new MacBook Pro, I have one of the brand new shiny ones with the Santa Rosa chipset. I have been trying to run FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1.5 and 8.0-SURPRISE on it, and everything goes well except the following issues: 1. Sometimes it will hang for ever on the ACP

Re: ``Stopping RAM access''

2007-10-30 Thread Maslan
> Can anyone give me a clue, how one can ``stop'' system from accessing RAM, > and then allow it again? I think this has no aim, RAM tests should be done during booting, but u could try to disable interrupts while in kernel mode 'cli' which will prevent any further context switching, then try to

Re: kernel panic at shutdown with freebsd 7.0 current snapshot (oct-2007)

2007-10-30 Thread Niki Denev
On 10/24/07, Patrick Dung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have ZFS (and snapshot) mounted. > Then shutdown by `shutdown -p now`. > > There is the dump: > > # kgdb /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols vmcore.0 > [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: > /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined sym

Re: MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Santa Rosa

2007-10-30 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:56:13AM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: [...] > > 2. The Marvell Gigbit NIC is not yet supported. I can provide output > from pciconf -lv if need be, let me know. Have not yet tried the > if_myk driver from Marvell themselves. > I'm interested in adding support