i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

2009-07-19 Thread Steven Hartland
I'm trying to convert some audio streams and the only app which seems to be capable of this mplayer with the w32codecs Unfortunately the machine is 7.1 amd64. I've compiled the binaries up on an old i386 box but when running said bins on the amd64 box it errors with: Opening audio decoder: [dmo]

Re: i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

2009-07-19 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:00:00PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > I'm trying to convert some audio streams and the only app > which seems to be capable of this mplayer with the w32codecs > > Unfortunately the machine is 7.1 amd64. I've compiled the > binaries up on an old i386 box but when runnin

Re: i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

2009-07-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Kostik Belousov" http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=233316+0+archive/2008/freebsd-amd64/20081214.freebsd-amd64 The latest version I can find is: http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/misc/amd64_ldt-pre.4.patch Anyone info appreciated. The patches were co

Re: i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

2009-07-19 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 03:29:51PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Kostik Belousov" > >>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=233316+0+archive/2008/freebsd-amd64/20081214.freebsd-amd64 > >> > >>The latest version I can find is: > >>http://people.freebs

Re: i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

2009-07-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Kostik Belousov" Thanks for the confirmation Kostik. Do you believe there is any reason to stop that patch working on 7.X if manually applied? Is the patch above the final version that went into HEAD? No and no, but I think that back-porting is not that triv

Re: i386_set_ldt on FreeBSD 7.x amd64

2009-07-19 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi Steven, * Steven Hartland wrote: > When you say HEAD would that require an upgrade to 7-STABLE or 8-CURRENT? Right now HEAD (or head/ in SVN) is 8-CURRENT. RELENG_7 (or stable/7) is 7-STABLE. -- Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ ___ freebsd-hac

add missing content to locking.9 ?

2009-07-19 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi all, In trying to track down an unrelated issue, I happened to note that locking.9 needed a bit of help. They easy changes went into docs/136918, but I am less confident about my reading of the posix semaphore code. Would anyone care to comment on the following?: --- locking.9 2009-07-20 00

Re: mmap/munmap with zero length

2009-07-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:39:09 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 13 July 2009 3:33:51 pm Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Monday 13 July 2009 20:28:08 John Baldwin wrote: >> > On Sunday 05 July 2009 3:32:25 am Alexander Best wrote: >> >> so mmap differs from the POSIX recommendation right. the mallo