Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Danny Braniss
> Danny Braniss wrote: > >> Danny Braniss wrote: > >>> it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) > >>> it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: > >>> 189100 ok > >>> 189150 fails > >>> I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. > >>> > >>> > >> 189150 is in the middle of a big

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of related commits. Try upda

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of rela

Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'

2009-03-29 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 20:37 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: > > > I haven't seen any activity on the above email, and I am curious if: > > 1) It was missed (and this really does affect people) > > 2) Nobody cross-compiles using the mingw32-* ports (it is really very

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Mar-27 14:19:16 -0400, Alexander Sack wrote: >On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <49cd0405.1060...@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >> >>>I've been talking about this for years.  All I need is help with the VM >>>magic to create the page on fork.  I als

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Mar-29 08:35:45 +0800, David Xu wrote: >Julian Elischer wrote: >> interestingly it is even feasible to have a per-thread page.. >> it requires that the scheduler change a page table entry tough. > >I will knock his door at midnight if he added such a heavy weight >task in the scheduler, TL

ping6 and traceroute6 trouble

2009-03-29 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
Hi Current and Hackers, I have only seen this recently and was wondering if anyone else can confirm this as a bug or perhaps a setup problem on my end. I think it started to appear with 8-Current from about the 25th of march. Any time I do a ping6 or traceroute6 I receive an e

Re: ping6 and traceroute6 trouble

2009-03-29 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, > On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:26:04 + > Pegasus Mc Cleaft said: ken>I have only seen this recently and was wondering if anyone else can confirm ken> this as a bug or perhaps a setup problem on my end. I think it started to ken> appear with 8-Current from about the 25th of march

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Alexander Sack
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Mar-27 14:19:16 -0400, Alexander Sack wrote: >>I'm assuming folks are still in love with the TSC because it still the >>cheapest as oppose ACPI-fast or HPET to even contemplate this? > > That is its major advantage.  It might be feasi

the web site

2009-03-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just had to see if I could locate if there was a gnome project page by looking at the FreeBSD web pages. Why don't you try that yourself? I'll tell you, it's really FAR from being obvious. I'm just saying, even if folks don't want to change the we

Re: ping6 and traceroute6 trouble

2009-03-29 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
Hi Hajimu, > ken> Any time I do a ping6 or traceroute6 I receive an error stating > "Invalid ken> value for hints." However, I am able to do all other > functions (telnet, ssh, ken> etc.) > > ken> feathers# ping6 ipv6.google.com > ken> ping6: Invalid value for hints > > ken> feathers# traceroute

Shared Disk/Transactional/Distributed file system (GSoC Proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Aram Havarneanu
I have been giving some thought lately on some ideas I would like to do for Google Summer of Code. I haven't posted my application yet, as I hope to get some feedback first. I want to make an OpenVMS inspired file system. The key elements would be record oriented I/O, transaction processing and as

Re: Shared Disk/Transactional/Distributed file system (GSoC Proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Tim Kientzle
Aram Havarneanu wrote: I have been giving some thought lately on some ideas I would like to do for Google Summer of Code. I haven't posted my application yet, as I hope to get some feedback first. An interesting idea, but it sounds much too ambitious for a six-week summer project. I suggest yo

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread David Xu
Julian Elischer wrote: depends on the hardware. anyhow I was only saying it was possible, not necessarily good or even useful. I had done some works for thread private page shared by kernel and userland when I was doing userland spinlock, if userland asks a page, kernel will allocate it and

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread David Xu
David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: depends on the hardware. anyhow I was only saying it was possible, not necessarily good or even useful. I had done some works for thread private page shared by kernel and userland when I was doing userland spinlock, if userland asks a page, kernel will

Re: the web site

2009-03-29 Thread RW
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:40:30 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: > I just had to see if I could locate if there was a gnome project page > by looking at the FreeBSD web pages. Why don't you try that > yourself? I'll tell you, it's really FAR from being obvious. I'm > just saying, even if folks don't want

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Julian Elischer
David Xu wrote: David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: depends on the hardware. anyhow I was only saying it was possible, not necessarily good or even useful. I had done some works for thread private page shared by kernel and userland when I was doing userland spinlock, if userland asks a

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread David Xu
Julian Elischer wrote: David Xu wrote: David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: depends on the hardware. anyhow I was only saying it was possible, not necessarily good or even useful. I had done some works for thread private page shared by kernel and userland when I was doing userland spinl

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Julian Elischer
David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: David Xu wrote: David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: depends on the hardware. anyhow I was only saying it was possible, not necessarily good or even useful. I had done some works for thread private page shared by kernel and userland when I was doi

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread David Xu
Julian Elischer wrote: David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: David Xu wrote: David Xu wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: depends on the hardware. anyhow I was only saying it was possible, not necessarily good or even useful. I had done some works for thread private page shared by kernel and

Re: the web site

2009-03-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
RW wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:40:30 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote: I just had to see if I could locate if there was a gnome project page by looking at the FreeBSD web pages. Why don't you try that yourself? I'll tell you, it's really FAR from being obvious. I'm just saying, even if folks don't