Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexander Best To: rank1see...@gmail.com Cc: hack...@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 + Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot On Fri M

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: > > On May 27, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > > > On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: > >> These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: > >> > >> # > >> +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifiers. Also instruct

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

On 28 May 2011 10:04, "Julian Elischer" wrote: > > On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> - Original Message - >>> From: Alexander Best >>> To: rank1see...@gmail.com >>> Cc: hack...@freebsd.org >>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

And how about this: # boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot. Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1 Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this won't work on a remote server. This requires: a) physicall acces

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

Alexander Best writes: > On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: >> On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: >> > These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: >> > >> > # >> > +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifiers. Also instruct >> > gcc to >> > +# enable so

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

On 5/28/11 6:06 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: And how about this: # boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot. Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1 Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this won't work on

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

On 5/28/11 4:06 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 May 2011 10:04, "Julian Elischer" > wrote: > > On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> - Original Message - >>

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

On 5/28/11 11:10 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/28/11 4:06 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 May 2011 10:04, "Julian Elischer" > wrote: > > On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com w

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

On Sat May 28 11, Pan Tsu wrote: > Alexander Best writes: > > > On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: > >> On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: > >> > These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: > >> > > >> > # > >> > +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifi

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

On Sat May 28 11, Alexander Best wrote: > On Sat May 28 11, Pan Tsu wrote: > > Alexander Best writes: > > > > > On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote: > > >> On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote: > > >> > These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on: > > >> > > > >> > # > > >>

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +, Alexander Best wrote: > > well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on amd64 > compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged the same way as one with > -O? if that is the case: sure...-O2 is fine. ;) > > however i've often r

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

On Sat May 28 11, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on amd64 > > compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged the same way as one with > > -O? if that is the case: su

Re: [rfc] a few kern.mk and bsd.sys.mk related changes

On Sat May 28 11, Alexander Best wrote: > On Sat May 28 11, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +, Alexander Best wrote: > > > > > > well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on > > > amd64 > > > compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged

Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

Hi, I would like to suggest to try 8.2. It is my experience that the different version behave very different on the same hardware. It does not mean that the newer version is the better. As an example, I have a machine here on 7.x as 8.0 did not support the USB hardware found. After a machine w