USB key && can't mount /root during boot

2010-10-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have now again the same problem (see Subject) again with a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 and neither of the two values in loader.conf: kern.cam.boot_delay="1" kern.cam.scsi_delay="1" seems to help. The 10 sec delay is not even visible during the boot, the message to enter m

Re[2]: sysconf -- a sysctl(8)-like utility for managing /etc/rc.conf et. al.

2010-10-23 Thread Anthony Pankov
Greetings. Just for note. Some time ago i thought about the same problem. I started something then had delayed it forever in favour of fast wrong way. So, the aim was: --- NAME modcfg - modify configuration SYNOPSIS modcfg -f config_file -t config_type {-s param=val | -u param} modcfg -l

Re: Tested wanted: BSD-licensed libgcc replacement, libcompiler_rt

2010-10-23 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi all, * Ed Schouten , 20101022 16:30: > At EuroBSDCon I was talking with some committers active in the area of > Clang (brooks, kwm, others) about replacing our libgcc shipped with GCC > 4.2.1 with a BSD-licensed version. The LLVM folks have a BSD licensed > implementation called libcompiler_rt.

Re: Radeon DRI/3D status

2010-10-23 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <20101019204409.ga5...@logik.internal.network> you write: >Hello. Hi! > >What's the current status of DRI/3D support with the 4xxx range of ATI >cards? > >I'm on 8.0-RELEASE and have just installed a (borrowed) 4870 card. I >get working dual monitor support but only software rasterizatio

fix pnpinfo on arch=amd64

2010-10-23 Thread Alexander Best
this tiny patch will fix pnpinfo so it doesn't core dump (bus error) any longer on arch=amd64. cheers. alex -- a13x diff --git a/contrib/pnpinfo/pnpinfo.c b/contrib/pnpinfo/pnpinfo.c index 790cfd8..c09f4ef 100644 --- a/contrib/pnpinfo/pnpinfo.c +++ b/contrib/pnpinfo/pnpinfo.c @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@

Re: addition of sysctl nodes after compile time

2010-10-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 21 10, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Alexander Best wrote: > > >does this limitation still exist? > > Sysctls can be added dynamically using the sysctl_add_oid(9) KPI, which has > existed (as far as I'm aware) at least since FreeBSD 4.x. It could be that > this KPI

Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

2010-10-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 21 10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Alexander Best writes: > > no need to get upset. you asked where i found the information regarding the > > wear impact of spinning down disks and i gave you the answer. > > I am upset by your claim that "doing spin downs upon reboot might be > even w

Re: fix pnpinfo on arch=amd64

2010-10-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > this tiny patch will fix pnpinfo so it doesn't core dump (bus error) any > longer on arch=amd64. 1. I had to modify the Makefile to get it to work. 2. FWIW, I don't there's really much point in adding a check for only x86 architectures, if

Re: Why is TUNABLE_INT discouraged?

2010-10-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
2010/10/18 Dag-Erling Smørgrav : > Garrett Cooper writes: >> PS I added uquad_t for consistency in the APIs, even though quad_t was >> deprecated, but I didn't bump __FreeBSD_version__ -- wasn't sure if I >> should have done that). > > You should bump __FreeBSD_version__ anyway so third-party or s

Re: Why is TUNABLE_INT discouraged?

2010-10-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
2010/10/23 Garrett Cooper : > 2010/10/18 Dag-Erling Smørgrav : >> Garrett Cooper writes: >>> PS I added uquad_t for consistency in the APIs, even though quad_t was >>> deprecated, but I didn't bump __FreeBSD_version__ -- wasn't sure if I >>> should have done that). >> >> You should bump __FreeBSD_

[PATCH] Add SF_ARCHIVED to EPERM in chflags(2) ERROR section

2010-10-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
The SF_ARCHIVED flag isn't noted in the chflags(2) ERROR section. The attached patch adds the entry. If no one has any objections, could someone help me commit this? Thanks! -Garrett Index: lib/libc/sys/chflags.2 === --- lib/libc/s

Re: USB key && can't mount /root during boot

2010-10-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, October 23, 2010 a las 10:49:56AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > I have now again the same problem (see Subject) again with a new laptop > Acer Aspire One D250 and neither of the two values in loader.conf: > > > kern.cam.boot_delay="1" > > kern.cam.scsi_delay="1" >

Broadcom BCM4310 / bwi(4) and interface bwi0 is not showing up

2010-10-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I have a new laptop Acer Aspire One D250 and I want to install a 8-CURRENT as of CVS from May 2009 (as I use this on all my laptops). The laptop comes with as Wifi chip: no...@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0xe01b105b chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Broadcom Cor