Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-10 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 08.05.2012 21:35, Eric McCorkle wrote: > I'd also like to start a discussion on the matter, since it seems > there are several ways that this could be done. Also, I know Rui > Paulo was working on this a while back. If anyone knows the approach > he was taking, that would be helpful. The way

Re: bootargs.h

2012-05-10 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 09/05/2012 14:28 John Baldwin said the following: > On 5/9/12 5:32 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> Here is a subversion diff to make use of the new bootargs.h header in pc98 >> cdboot and loader, and i386 cdboot and pxeldr: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/bootargs.diff >> Could you please review

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-10 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On May 8, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Eric McCorkle wrote: > Here are some specific points to be decided: > > * An EFI boot service could potentially function similarly to > [zfs]loader. Alternatively, it could function like gpt[zfs]boot, > though this might require modifying loader(8) since EFI boot ser

Re: NFS - slow

2012-05-10 Thread Rick Macklem
David Brodbeck wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > > i tried nfsv4, tested under FreeBSD over localhost and it is roughly > > the > > same. am i doing something wrong? > > I found NFSv4 to be much *slower* than NFSv3 on FreeBSD, when I > benchmarked it a year or

Re: How does loader(8) decide where to load the kernel?

2012-05-10 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On May 8, 2012, at 1:32 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >>> On i386, amd64, powerpc, and arm, loadimage subtracts >>> the dest value from the address declared in the actual ELF >>> headers so that the kernel always gets loaded into low memory. >>> (there's some intermediate bit-twiddling I'm glossing ove

Re: PCEngines alix.6 with dual SIM

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 5/10/2012 2:00 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi all, > I removed the line I added to urg.c, then kldloaded u3g, and voila: > ugen0.2: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST > spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON > > Mike, which minipci cards do you recomend? > thanks all, > danny > ps: now the fun begins - coding

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
Quick update: I have received word last night that this crash has been consistently happening to someone on FreeBSD 9 and they're looking for more ideas. I changed the following 41 days ago: - Video memory to "auto" if it wasn't already - SCSI controller changed from LSI Logic Parallel to L

Re: bootargs.h

2012-05-10 Thread TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro
In article <4fab8d31.8050...@freebsd.org> Andriy Gapon writes: >>> MFi386 of BTX changes for support of KARGS_FLAGS_EXTARG is pending. >>> Do you think that it should be done? >> >> You mean to pc98's btxldr? I think so, in general we should keep the >> pc98 BTX bits as close to i386 as possibl

Re: bootargs.h

2012-05-10 Thread John Baldwin
On 5/10/12 5:41 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 09/05/2012 14:28 John Baldwin said the following: >> On 5/9/12 5:32 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> >>> Here is a subversion diff to make use of the new bootargs.h header in pc98 >>> cdboot and loader, and i386 cdboot and pxeldr: >>> http://people.freebsd.or

Re: csh builtin command problems

2012-05-10 Thread Dieter BSD
Robert writes: > I want this: > > # echo test\ttest > test > # cat test > test    test I have given up on using echo for anything the least bit fancy, in favor of printf(1) which gives much better control. printf "test\ttest\n" ___ freebsd-hackers@freeb

Re: csh builtin command problems

2012-05-10 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: > Robert writes: >> I want this: >> >> # echo test\ttest > test >> # cat test >> test    test > > I have given up on using echo for anything the least bit fancy, > in favor of printf(1) which gives much better control. > > printf "test\ttest\n" I

Heimdal 1.5.2 problem

2012-05-10 Thread Robert Simmons
I've just installed the new version of Heimdal, 1.5.2 from ports, and I'm having a problem. As in the past, BerkeleyDB needs to be enabled with make config so that there is a backend. However, I'm still getting the error as if BerkeleyDB was not enabled, and there is no backend support. I've fol