Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Mon, 14 May 2012, Eric McCorkle wrote: ... If I understand things correctly, boot2 handles the switch to protected mode (as well as enabling A20), both loader(8) and the kernel begin their execution in a protected mode environment. Can I get an absolute confirmation on this? Obviously if thi

Re: diagonising a overheating problem

2012-05-15 Thread rank1seeker
- Original Message - From: Aryeh Friedman There is something special about laptops, which distincts them from desktop and server hardware. Requirement for cooling maintaince! > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 94.0C This pretty much says it all. Fix starts when you turn OFF your laptop

Re: diagonising a overheating problem

2012-05-15 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:05:27PM +0200, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Aryeh Friedman > > There is something special about laptops, which distincts them from desktop > and server hardware. > Requirement for cooling maintaince! > > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.tem

Re: Calling tsleep(9) with interrupts disabled

2012-05-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:07:12 pm Ian Lepore wrote: > I just realized that I've accidentally coded a sequence similar to this > in a driver: > >s = intr_disable(); >// do stuff here >tsleep(sc, 0, "twird", hz / 4); >// more stuff >intr_restore(s); > > Much to my surpise thi

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

2012-05-15 Thread Rafal Jaworowski
On 2012-05-13, at 09:17, Tim Kientzle wrote: > On May 12, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> >> On May 10, 2012, at 5:32 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> >>> On May 8, 2012, at 1:32 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: On the AM3358, the DRAM starts at 0x8000 on boot, so I'm trying

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:00:44 am Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012, Eric McCorkle wrote: > ... > > If I understand things correctly, boot2 handles the switch to > > protected mode (as well as enabling A20), both loader(8) and the > > kernel begin their execution in a protected mo

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, May 14, 2012 5:39:17 pm Eric McCorkle wrote: > On 05/10/12 07:45, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > 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]loade

GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

2012-05-15 Thread tzabal
Hello Community, I have the project "Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System" for this GSoC and I would like to discuss my plans about it before starting the coding on May 21. I have created a page in the FreeBSD Wiki (http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/AutomatedKernelCrashReporting

Re: gnome start error?help me.

2012-05-15 Thread cz li
FreeBSD9.0 support for the ATI HD2300 or ATI x2300 graphics card? 2012/5/14 Wojciech Puchar : >>   I installed FreeBSD9.0 to IBM R51.Gnome startup black screen, >> only to restart.My graphics card is "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics >> Device".Is there any solution?Can you give me a detailed ste

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

2012-05-15 Thread Tim Kientzle
On May 15, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Rafal Jaworowski wrote: >> >> Should I overwrite the FDT in the kernel with the >> edited FDT? That doesn't feel quite right, but it's >> essentially what the FDT code here was trying to >> do before. > > A given DTB (loaded dynamically or statically embedded in the

Re: GSoC Project: EFI on amd64/i386

2012-05-15 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 15.05.2012 19:44, John Baldwin wrote: >> It seems having the EFI boot service load the kernel directly is the >> way to go, based on Andrey's reply, the existing code, and my own >> intuition. I just wanted to ask, in case there was some compelling >> reason to have the EFI boot service load lo

Re: diagonising a overheating problem

2012-05-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
diagonising? means diagnosing agonising? good word :) that for some reason the FreeBSD CPU/bus speed controls and such are not working based on the following item I found in my dmesg's: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (-273.2C) seems like superfluid helium produced in that temperature

Re: NFS - slow

2012-05-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
same. am i doing something wrong? I found NFSv4 to be much *slower* than NFSv3 on FreeBSD, when I benchmarked it a year or so ago. both are just right in you read (NFSv4 taking a bit more CPU), and both are awful at writes. for me now the only way to get NFS working well is to use unfsd wi

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
great idea! On Sat, 5 May 2012, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Find some mailing lists that have nothing to do with FreeBSD, and barrage them with spam promoting FreeBSD. :-) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Today, FreeBSD works on some of the most powerful equipment in the world. Equipment where price is hardly an issue. We have a great many to thank for that. and works on low end hardware. The same FreeBSD and it can be tuned well for both cases. ___

Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

2012-05-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sorry if off topic but is today Google needed to do anything and must supervise everything? Cannot people just write a code as they always did? I have created a page in the FreeBSD Wiki (http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/AutomatedKernelCrashReportingSystem) where I describe in details the

Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

2012-05-15 Thread Ilya Bakulin
On 15.05.12 23:30, tza...@it.teithe.gr wrote: > Hello Community, > > I have the project "Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System" for this > GSoC and I would like to discuss my plans about it before starting the > coding on May 21. > * Can you recommend a secure way of sending a report from a Free

Re: GSoC Project: Automated Kernel Crash Reporting System - Discussion

2012-05-15 Thread Ilya Bakulin
On 15.05.12 23:30, tza...@it.teithe.gr wrote: > * The implementation of the kcrashreporter is planned to be done in > two shell scripts. Are you really going to name your program "kcrashreporter"? I'd suggest using a different name since everything matching "^k" is automatically associated with KDE