Driver accessing other drivers/devices ?

2008-08-22 Thread Alex Hornung
Hello, I need to access the hard disk from within a driver that is not a FS. I would also need to get a list of PCI devices connected. Is there a way I can access these devices directly, at least in the first case, issuing directly ATA/IDE commands to the hard disk? In the case of PCI it would be

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Anders Nore
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello hackers, it's been a great summer for me working with the FreeBSD-

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
[Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and >developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v >is a very interesting platform for developers doing

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v is a very interesting platform f

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Nikolay Kalev wrote: I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. Just so everyone is on the same page

sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Nikolay Kalev
I would also like to help as well. As KMacy knows before i asked a lot of questions for T2 types of servers but unfortunately i have no more access to those kind of hardware as well. I;m willing to participate if a team will be formated. ___ freebsd-hacke

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Kris Kennaway wrote: | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v | viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low | level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel and | the sun

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Kevin Downey
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Julian Elischer
Kevin Downey wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Aug 22, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: [Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and developers that unsupported code should not be in CVS. Although sun4v i

usb match() function

2008-08-22 Thread Peter B
Within the usb drivers (/usr/src/sys/dev/usb/u*.c) there's an matching routine where the 'uaa->iface' is supposed to be assigned before the routine is called. However for a new device or class this doesn't seem to work. Instead 'uaa' is set like for an generic device (two interfaces, no "default"

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Marius Strobl
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:44:25PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > >[Replies re-directed to freebsd-sun4v] > > > >On 2008-Aug-21 14:42:55 -0700, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I believe that there is a general expectation by freebsd users and > >>developers that unsuppo

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
> Well, let's see what architecture the upcoming Rock CPUs are; > judging their feature list they appear to be a continuation of > the Fujitsu sun4u line rather than a successor of UST1/2 :) That is not what I've heard. -Kip ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.

request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the wiki for general information: http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is production-ready. There are many known limitations. If you would like to take it for a test drive and repor

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Aug-22 17:04:00 +0200, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v >viable are people with experience with (or intention to learn about) low >level architectural and implementation details of the FreeBSD kernel What documen

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Brad Pitney
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the > wiki for general information: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen > > Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is > production-ready. There a

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Greg Larkin
Kip Macy wrote: > Basic Xen support for 32-bit in PAE mode is in CVS. Please see the > wiki for general information: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen > > Please be forewarned that I am not claiming that this is > production-ready. There are many known limitations. If you would like > to take

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Kip Macy
p >> > Hi Kip, > > Thanks very much for the effort here. I'm looking forward to trying it > out and providing feedback. > > I'm not really familiar with Xen, but perhaps enough to ask this > question: Does this mean that Amazon EC2 will be able to boot FreeBSD > instances? > The last time I spoke

Re: pkg_improved GSoC 2008 finished

2008-08-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 +0200, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Anders Nore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MFC of r180753: ABI problems?

2008-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Hi, : : I'm wondering how to merge r180753 to stable/7 as luoqi@ has indicated that he : doesn't have time to take care of it right now. : : It seems that changing the size of pcicfgregs (aka struct pcicfg) whic

Re: Driver accessing other drivers/devices ?

2008-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Alex Hornung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Hello, : : I need to access the hard disk from within a driver that is not a FS. : I would also need to get a list of PCI devices connected. Is there a : way I can access these devices directly, at least in th

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- : Hash: SHA512 : : Kris Kennaway wrote: : | Just so everyone is on the same page, what is needed to keep sun4v : | viable are people with experience with (or intention to lea