Re: FYI: WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD= problem for some files?

2021-05-04 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 11:52, Mark Millard wrote: > > > As far as the utf-8 issues go, diffoscope requires a utf-8 locale and > > I suspect that is the issue. If you don't have LANG set already, try > > setting LANG=C.UTF-8 in your environment. > > That is not the issue for the UnicodeDecodeError:

Re: FYI: WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD= problem for some files?

2021-05-04 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 3 May 2021 at 22:26, Mark Millard wrote: > > But I'll note that I've built and stalled py37-diffoscope > (new to me). A basic quick test showed that it reports: > > W: diffoscope.main: Fuzzy-matching is currently disabled as the "tlsh" module > is unavailable. I just looked up tlsh - its

Re: FYI: WITH_REPRODUCIBLE_BUILD= problem for some files?

2021-05-03 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 02:50, Mark Millard via freebsd-current wrote: > > Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/sbin/ping and > /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/sbin/ping differ > Files /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-chroot/sbin/ping6 and > /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/13_0R-CA7-poud/sbin/ping6 differ > Fi

Re: Portsnap no updates since 3/31/2021 ?

2021-04-06 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 06:49, Robert Blayzor via freebsd-stable wrote: > > I have several servers running 11.4 and 12.2 that do nightly portsnap > updates and the last time they've seen anything new is 3/31/2021, since > then, nothing. > > This seems highly unusual since seems like there was always

Re: Deprecating base system ftpd?

2021-04-05 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 16:39, Ed Maste wrote: > > I propose deprecating the ftpd currently included in the base system > before FreeBSD 14, and opened review D26447 > (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447) to add a notice to the man page. I posted this as a proposal for community f

Deprecating base system ftpd?

2021-04-03 Thread Ed Maste
I propose deprecating the ftpd currently included in the base system before FreeBSD 14, and opened review D26447 (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26447) to add a notice to the man page. I had originally planned to try to do this before 13.0, but it dropped off my list. FTP is not nearly as relevant no

Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-03-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 15:09, Chris wrote: > > I can only state that I use it only occasionally, and that when I do. I > have had no problems with it. I'm glad that it's there when I need it. Thanks for the reply. Can you comment on your use cases - in particular, did you use mirror, stripe, or r

Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-03-25 Thread Ed Maste
Vinum is a Logical Volume Manager that was introduced in FreeBSD 3.0, and for FreeBSD 5 was ported to geom(4) as gvinum. gvinum has had no specific development at least as far back as 2010 and it is not clear how well it works today. There are open PRs with reports of panics upon removing disks, et

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 12:10, Helge Oldach wrote: > > A shallow tree is about 1.6G. If you want to patch source (say, from > a SA or EN) you certainly also need space for an object tree which is > about 4.5G. The total is >6G. > > I'd say relative to the total required to build, the 1.1G "savings"

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 15:58, Warner Losh wrote: > > The problem, though, can happen when you run a shallow clone or gitup to > get the sources and build from that. In that case the v number is bogus > (hmmm, we should omit it when we have a shallow clone maybe). I want to clarify one point here

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 16:57, Karl Denninger wrote: > > The time (and present items) on a given machine to know whether it is > covered by a given advisory under the "svn view of the world" is one > command, and no sources. That is, if the advisory says "r123456" has > the fix, then if I do a "un

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-25 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 02:42, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Thanks, Ed, but where do I find this? uname -a" gives me stable/13-007101f87. > For a while I was seeing a hyphenated number prefixed with a 'c' and I had > assumed that that number was the sequence. It is (was) - we changed from 'c' to avo

Re: How do I know if my 13-stable has security patches?

2021-02-24 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 12:35, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > In the svn days, I could just look at my svn revision to check on whether a > security patch was required. Now I have a git hash. I have no idea how to > tell if my system running 13-STABLE of a few days ago has the patch. Thanks for posting

Re: stable/12 git -> svn mirror delayed

2021-02-23 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 15:29, Ed Maste wrote: > > The git-svn stable/12 mirror is currently stuck. It encountered an > issue with the OpenSSL 1.1.1j import (e3a8c0df593b) and hasn't been > able to make progress past it. It's under investigation and will > hopefully be

stable/12 git -> svn mirror delayed

2021-02-18 Thread Ed Maste
The git-svn stable/12 mirror is currently stuck. It encountered an issue with the OpenSSL 1.1.1j import (e3a8c0df593b) and hasn't been able to make progress past it. It's under investigation and will hopefully be resolved soon. (I think the git-svn converter is trying to cherry-pick each of the ve

Re: where to upgrade 12-stable now, svn still, or git?

2021-02-17 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 23:11, tech-lists wrote: > > I saw on cgit that stable/12 was there. These older systems weekly > update their sources via svn till now, in a cron job. At the time I wrote > my message, I saw that svn still works, so was wondering which to use, > which has the latest updates

Re: where to upgrade 12-stable now, svn still, or git?

2021-02-17 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 01:04, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > > Is there a timeline when svn for stable-12 /usr/src disappears? stable/11 and stable/12 will exist in svn for at least as long as the branches are supported - stable/12 expected EOL is June 30,2024. If you're tracking stable you don't need

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

2020-12-31 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 at 02:50, Helge Oldach wrote: > > The only sensible way out is to retire mergemaster and switch to > etcupdate. This would affect any stable/1? users building from source. stable/11 and stable/12 users can continue to update via svn and have $FreeBSD$ expanded, for the life of

Deprecating userland a.out support

2020-12-04 Thread Ed Maste
FreeBSD has used ELF binaries/libraries for decades, but still has support for legacy a.out binaries. Portions of this have been retired over time, and I propose removing the remaining pieces before FreeBSD 13. I'm not proposing making any change to kernel a.out support, but users needing userland

Re: Removing obsolete GDB 6.1.1 for FreeBSD 13

2020-12-04 Thread Ed Maste
Adding the FreeBSD-stable list to CC for more visibility. On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 12:43, Ed Maste wrote: > > I would like to remove GDB 6.1.1 before FreeBSD 13, and propose to > switch the GDB knob to default to NO in the near future. If the > crashinfo utility and related man pages do

Re: after latest patches i386 not fully patched

2020-09-21 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 10:04, Ed Maste wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 03:42, Walter von Entferndt > wrote: > > > > At Sonntag, 20. September 2020, 14:00:00 CEST, Ed Maste > > wrote: > > > Until pkgbase is in place the most straightforward way to address t

Re: after latest patches i386 not fully patched

2020-09-21 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 03:42, Walter von Entferndt wrote: > > At Sonntag, 20. September 2020, 14:00:00 CEST, Ed Maste > wrote: > > Until pkgbase is in place the most straightforward way to address this > > issue will probably be for us to ship a new kernel even if not &

Re: after latest patches i386 not fully patched

2020-09-19 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 18:45, Dan Langille wrote: > > I understand why this occurs. I have reported it before: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245878 Until pkgbase is in place the most straightforward way to address this issue will probably be for us to ship a new kernel eve

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:14.linuxkpi

2020-07-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 17:08, FreeBSD Errata Notices wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > = > FreeBSD-EN-20:14.linuxkpi Errata Notice >

Re: vt [was: Re: [Bug 235564] INDEX.keymaps for vt contains "from-" keymaps but the files are missing]

2020-03-11 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 19:15, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Is it just a matter of putting "syscons=[sc|vt]" in loader.conf > to select whatever driver? Have a look at sc(4) and vt(4) - in loader.conf: kern.vty=sc or kern.vty=vt And sysctl kern.vty will let you know which you're using.

Re: vt [was: Re: [Bug 235564] INDEX.keymaps for vt contains "from-" keymaps but the files are missing]

2020-03-10 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:15, Andy Farkas wrote: > > On 2020-03-10 01:04, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > Take a look at r334530. > > "or the user really hates this feature and can't wait to turn it off" So to confirm, your issue is with sc(4), not vt(4)? ___

Re: Any sync-serial driver users (ce/cp/ctau/cx)?

2020-03-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 14:03, Ed Maste wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 15:57, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > Given the ~15 years of nothing but API changes to these cards, and the lack > > of testing of those changes, and the large technology transitions in net > >

Re: vt [was: Re: [Bug 235564] INDEX.keymaps for vt contains "from-" keymaps but the files are missing]

2020-03-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 17:13, Andy Farkas wrote: > > Is anyone actually working on the vt(4) driver? Will it ever > become feature-parity with the old sc(4) driver? Yes, and yes. What specific missing functionality are you affected by? > I've noticed some weird things happening on my console rec

Re: Any sync-serial driver users (ce/cp/ctau/cx)?

2020-03-02 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 15:57, Warner Losh wrote: > > Given the ~15 years of nothing but API changes to these cards, and the lack > of testing of those changes, and the large technology transitions in net and > tty layers of the system, I'd honestly be surprised if these drivers still > work. D

Any sync-serial driver users (ce/cp/ctau/cx)?

2020-02-29 Thread Ed Maste
Is anyone using sync serial drivers ce, cp, ctau, or cx? NYCBUG's dmesg didn't turn up any entries. I suspect these are obsolete and ought to be removed. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

2020-02-23 Thread Ed Maste
On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 12:48, Gerard E. Seibert wrote: > > Until they squash that bug, they should not be in a rush to push out > the door another defective model. Unfortunately complaining that there's a bug in 12.0 or 12.1 or providing additional reports of this will do nothing to help resolve

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

2020-02-18 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 05:37, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > Maybe its a time to give OpenBSD a try.. I really don't understand this comment, either. Certainly give OpenBSD a try and if it fits your needs better that's great. As far as I'm aware OpenBSD issues a release every six months and supports th

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

2020-02-18 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 22:24, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > > Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What for? > > Why pushing problems to production? What was wrong with having one > well tested stable system for a long time? I really don't understand this - FreeBSD 12 is support

Re: Light GeoIP support dropped?

2020-01-06 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 16:17, Alexander Koeppe wrote: > > Hi, > > since I've upgraded to FreeBSD 12, I don't find a package providing the > lightweight geoip database API incl. GeoIP.h and libGeoIP.so. > > I only find `geoipupdate` which is the non-free variant of the API. Looking at ports history

Re: Disabling speculative execution mitigations

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 22:54, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: > > With respect to the man page, I find it difficult to know what a given value > for each sysctl will do, as evidenced by my confusion above about IBRS. scottl recently moved these sysctls to machdep.mitigations in r355436, but they've kept

Re: Missing 12 MFCs

2019-09-24 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 18:30, David Cross wrote: > > There are a set of commits in head that have not been pulled into the > stable/12 branch. Many of these are marked as MFC (and are quite old). I'm looking at the WITH_PIE / WITH_BIND_NOW changes, and am looking for re@'s opinion. I'll merge th

Re: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - Second Quarter 2019

2019-08-26 Thread Ed Maste
, we talked about methods for making for more training material available. Partnerships and Commercial User Support We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with companies to discuss their needs and bring that information back to the Project. In Q2,

Re: Buildworld times (was Re: svn commit: r350256 - in stable/12: . contrib/compiler-rt/lib/sanitizer_common contrib/libunwind/src contrib/llvm/lib/DebugInfo/DWARF contrib/llvm/lib/MC contrib/llvm/lib

2019-07-29 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 22:44, Jeremy Chadwick via freebsd-stable wrote: > > TL;DR for lazy folks: > > stable/11 r350330 world + minimal clang = 1:29:34 > stable/11 r350330 world + full clang= 1:46:31 > stable/11 r350252 world + minimal clang = 56:52 > stable/11 r350252 world + full clang

Re: 12.0-RELEASE-p4 kernel panic on i386 boot

2019-05-15 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 00:03, Ed Maste wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 15:09, wintellect Auser > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Wanted to make you aware of an issue I have encountered, sorry if this is > > the wrong list. > > This is the right pl

Re: 12.0-RELEASE-p4 kernel panic on i386 boot

2019-05-15 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 15:09, wintellect Auser wrote: > > Hi all, > > Wanted to make you aware of an issue I have encountered, sorry if this is > the wrong list. This is the right place and thank you for reporting. Looking into it. ___ freebsd-stable@fr

Re: ifuncs check flawed?

2019-03-23 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 16:54, Dan Allen wrote: > > That is why I think the check is flawed! The check works as intended, as suggested by the non-booting kernel produced with the checks removed. To help track this down can you run `make buildenv` and then in the resulting shell collect the output

Re: ifuncs check flawed?

2019-03-19 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 13:03, Dan Allen wrote: > > The buildworld and buildkernel steps both immediately fail due to the linker > not supporting ifuncs. By default FreeBSD/i386 uses lld as the bootstrap linker (i.e., the linker used for building the kernel, libraries, and userland binaries) but

Re: FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE i386 can not build a kernel?

2019-02-28 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 09:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > LD?=ld.lld in the right place(s)? Perhaps, I seem to recall some issue with that, but not the specifics. > And is this still an issue for stable/12 i386? > or has ld been changed to ld.lld? stable/12 i386 still has GNU ld as /usr/bin/ld

Re: FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE i386 can not build a kernel?

2019-02-28 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 08:26, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Are you really rally expecting a user to rebuild the world that > he just installed that should be exactly the same world he gets > build (reproduceable builds and all??). I'm expecting that a user will either follow the directions in the

Re: FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE i386 can not build a kernel?

2019-02-28 Thread Ed Maste
> > Let me guess. You use 'make' in sys/i386/build/YOUR_KERNEL ? > > Then you need to use 'LD=ld.ldd make'. The proper way of > > 'make buildkernel' from top-level src handles it automatically. > > > If you back up in the thread you would also see the output > is the same for cd /usr/src; make bu

Re: FreeBSD 12.0 RELEASE i386 can not build a kernel?

2019-02-28 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 03:50, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Now the begging question, why isnt the toolchain as shipped > already properly built? The required toolchain is included in 12.0-RELEASE i386 - the linker is /usr/bin/ld.lld. It just needs to be specified explicitly if build via a method o

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-19:05.kqueue

2019-01-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 15:23, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Credits:Mark Johnston > > > Affects:FreeBSD 11.2 > > > Corrected: 2019-11-24 17:11:47 UTC (stable/11, 11.2-STABLE) > > > > Should this be 2018 or is this yet in the future? > > And why does fbsd-update fail like t

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-19:05.kqueue

2019-01-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 15:03, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > Corrected: 2019-11-24 17:11:47 UTC (stable/11, 11.2-STABLE) > > Should this be 2018 or is this yet in the future? Yes, this should be 2018-11-24. Gordon's updating it. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd

Re: Error upgrading 11-STABLE to 12-STABLE in ifunc resolver

2019-01-09 Thread Ed Maste
On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 17:20, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Yes, you should update to the latest stable/11. More details, you need > > to have host clang which includes the r339284 commit. > > We either need to fix this problem, or we need to bump the minimum in > Makefile.inc1. amd64_get_fsbase.c sh

Deprecating the lmc(4) driver

2018-04-24 Thread Ed Maste
The lmc(4) driver supports hardware for a number of legacy interfaces, including EIA612/613, T1/E1, T3, etc. The driver's license is ambiguous and attempts to contact the author failed. I would like to remove this driver from 12.0, and have a deprecation notice in review D15182 [1]; I would appre

HEADS-UP: Deprecation of legacy (v3) password database support

2018-04-20 Thread Ed Maste
FreeBSD password databases (/etc/pwd.db, /etc/spwd.db) can contain records in one or both of two versions: * v3, a legacy architecture-dependent format * v4, the current architecture- and endian-independent format When v4 support was added in 2003 (r113596) pwd_mkdb emitted both v3 and v4 record

Re: svn commit: r332493 - stable/11/sys/net

2018-04-14 Thread Ed Maste
On 14 April 2018 at 07:31, Magnus Ringman wrote: > Hi Brooks, this MFC missed your r331077 > (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14706) thus stable buildkernel currently > breaks on missing those two macros. Thanks for identifying the missing commit Magnus. I've now merged it in r332502. __

Call for Testing: 11.1-RELEASE Meltdown/Spectre mitigation merge

2018-03-06 Thread Ed Maste
Background -- A number of issues relating to speculative execution were found last year and publicly announced January 3rd. A variety of techniques used to mitigate these issues have been committed to FreeBSD-CURRENT and have been merged to the stable/11 branch. The changes will be merged

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-02-01 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 January 2018 at 19:48, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> > I also just tried upgrading to the latest HEAD with a generic kernel and > same / similar lockups although procstat -kk gives some odd results > > > root@amdtestr12:/home/mdtancsa # procstat -kk 6067 > PIDTID COMMTDNAME

Re: date -r {big number} results in segmentation fault

2017-08-30 Thread Ed Maste
On 30 August 2017 at 01:12, Xin LI wrote: > I think emaste@ have fixed it in r321293. MFC? Thanks for the note, now merged in r323044. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

Re: stable/11 src update r321515 -> r321613 fail in src/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/

2017-07-27 Thread Ed Maste
On 27 July 2017 at 07:02, David Wolfskill wrote: > /usr/src/usr.sbin/acpi/acpidump/acpi.c:1089:6: error: use of undeclared > identifier 'ACPI_SRAT_TYPE_GIC_ITS_AFFINITY'; did you mean > 'ACPI_SRAT_TYPE_GICC_AFFINITY'? Sorry about that, reverted in r321617. __

Re: FreeBSD 11.1-BETA1 Now Available

2017-06-12 Thread Ed Maste
On 12 June 2017 at 00:43, Warner Losh wrote: > > aarch64 support isn't completely integrated into FreeBSD 11 yet. A clarification: arm64/aarch64 support has been available as of FreeBSD 11.0 for Cavium ThunderX, and the SoftIron arm64 hardware is also supported now. What we don't have yet is a p

FreeBSD-update incorrectly reporting that it is approaching End of Life

2017-04-04 Thread Ed Maste
FreeBSD-update has outdated release lifetime data, and is emitting a false warning that the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8 is approaching. | WARNING: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8 is approaching its End-of-Life date. | It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer | release within

Looking for libvgl users

2016-06-21 Thread Ed Maste
2014 at 11:26, Ed Maste wrote: > vgl(3) is a graphics library for syscons(4) that provides some basic > graphics operations (e.g. some mode setting, bitmaps, boxes, > ellipses). Right now it does not support the newer vt(4) console. > > In order to help determine the priority of a

Re: cc: error: no such file or directory: '/usr/obj/jenkins/workspace/HardenedBSD-10-STABLE-unstable-amd64/sys/boot/efi/loader/../../ficl/libficl.a' *** [loader.sym] Error code 1

2016-01-07 Thread Ed Maste
On 7 January 2016 at 16:53, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > 2016-01-07 19:32 GMT+01:00 Oliver Pinter : >> We got this error during the jenkins build: "cc: error: no such file >> or directory: >> '/usr/obj/jenkins/workspace/HardenedBSD-10-STABLE-unstable-amd64/sys/boot/efi/loader/../../ficl/li

Re: vt_core.c vt_is_cursor_in_area different behavior after r282823

2015-05-13 Thread Ed Maste
On 13 May 2015 at 03:02, Marko Turk wrote: > Hi, > > after r282823, new vt_is_cursor_in_area is, in some cases, returning > different values than the old function. > > For example: > If (my + vd->vd_mcursor->height) is equal to (area->tr_begin.tp_row), > old function will return 1 and new function

Re: 6.2 sporadically locks up

2009-06-17 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:03:34PM +0400, pluknet wrote: > As for allpcpu, I often see the picture, when one CPU runs the "irq17: > bce1 aacu0" thread > and another one runs arcconf. I wonder if that might be a source of > bad locking or races, or.. > The arcconf utility uses ioctl that goes into

Re: Adaptec AIC-9410

2009-01-07 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:16:26PM -0600, Paul Taulborg wrote: > Both of these have an Adaptec AIC-9410 SAS controller in them, that is > apparently not detected (or supported?) by FreeBSD (amd64) (7.0 or 7.1 > RC1) No verison of FreeBSD has support for the AIC-9410, and I am not aware of any w

Re: 6.3 reboot -d doesn't work

2008-09-17 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:25:37AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:36:46AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > > I am trying to get a crash dump but am unable to with FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 > > > > [...] > > reboot -d > > ... > > dumping 255M 2 chunks > > > > > > Then nothing

Re: aaccli on recent conrollers?

2008-04-08 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:42:40AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > I have just built a new SunFire X4100 server with an Adaptec 2230SLP > RAID card using FreeBSD 6.2-PRE kernel (from September 20). > Everything is working extremely well except I cannot run the aaccli > utility on this controller

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-04-02 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:16:17AM -0700, Chris Timmons wrote: > Ed, > > Your work-around works on 7-stable as of this morning. Excellent! I've actually committed a better fix to HEAD now (aac.c revision 1.137). The diffs[1] should apply cleanly to RELENG_7 and RELENG_6 I believe, and I plan t

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:54:50AM -0500, Mike Andrews wrote: > On RELENG_7 dated 2007-12-15 (BETA4), aaccli fails with the following > error; arcconf continues to work fine: > >Command Error: current AFAAPI.DLL.> I suspect Adaptec has a firmware bug relating to the RequestAdapterInfo a

USB-Serial converters [Was: Panic with usb serial]

2008-03-29 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 03:20:49PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Also, I'd like to know what USB serial adapter you're using (brand, > model, and a website of it if possible), for unrelated reasons. Thanks! The "Cables Unlimited" USB-Serial adapter from TigerDirect[1] is based on the FTDI chip

Re: SMP + polling on 7.0-RC1

2008-02-01 Thread Ed Maste
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:15:56AM -0800, Hiroshi Nishida wrote: > Does the 'polling' mode for network devices work with a 7.0-RC1's SMP > kernel? > > According to http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/, it seems not on > FreeBSD 4. > What about 7.0? Polling works with SMP as of FreeBSD 6.x.

Re: Documentation: Installing FreeBSD 7.0 via serial console and PXE

2008-01-29 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:09:13AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I spent 7-8 hours yesterday working on accomplishing ${SUBJECT}, and in > the process wrote a document on it. There are scattered docs all over > the Web describing how to do this, but all of them are either outdated > or incorrec

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Ed Maste
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: > > > Command Error: >the current AFAAPI.DLL.> > > In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec > card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Ad

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-19 Thread Ed Maste
itted. - Polling's major advantage is the avoidance of livelock on UP systems, and not improved performance. What level of traffic are you putting through this box? Is it routing/ bridging, or an endpoint like a web server? Ed Maste _

Re: force panic of remote server ... possible?

2006-06-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:06:14PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out > > that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled, > > is there som

Re: force panic of remote server ... possible?

2006-06-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:06:14PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > For the server that I'm fighting with right now, where Dmitry pointed out > > that it looks like a deadlock issue ... I have dumpdev/savecore enabled, > > is there som

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-27 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:07:35AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > I get a 9600 baud console with the following after upgrade from 5.4: This is what I'm planning on putting in UPDATING: The i386 loader(8) now defaults to the serial speed set by the previous boot stage, if the comcons

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-27 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:01:08PM -0500, Rong-En Fan wrote: > Which way is preferred: setting comconsole_speed, -S in > boot.config, or using harded code BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED in make.conf? > If now the most preferred way is to using -S or > comconsole_speed in loader.conf, please update that in

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-26 Thread Ed Maste
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:19:35PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > comconsole_speed= in /boot/loader.conf > > existing speed, if comconsole is already set by previous stage > > BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED compile time default > > Well, the last item will simply never be hit, since there is ALWAYS a >

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-25 Thread Ed Maste
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:37:08AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Ed Maste wrote: > > What's in your /boot.config? > > In my case, I use -P, because I usually don't have a keyboard hooked up, > but ocasionally do use it. Additionally, I had console="comc

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-25 Thread Ed Maste
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:40:17AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > The problem may be that your boot blocks were compiled with > > BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED set to 9600. Try reinstalling them with e.g. > > `disklabel -B ad0s1' (make sure you get the right device name - > > it shoul

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-25 Thread Ed Maste
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 12:23:59AM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > comconsole_speed="115200" in loader.conf should override it > > if you don't want to replace boot2 or change /boot.config. > > Yes, I've tried this, but it didn't work, or maybe I just didn't try > hard enough. :) I'll try it ag

Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud

2006-02-25 Thread Ed Maste
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:55:01PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this MFC commit: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/comconsole.c?rev=1.10.10.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > broke the speed-setting of the serial console at boot time, for REL

FreeBSD 5.5 network driver binary module compatibility

2006-01-28 Thread Ed Maste
I've been backmerging to RELENG_5 the IP multicast address locking work done by Robert Watson in HEAD and RELENG_6. This prevents various panics and corruption that happens when configuring multicast addresses. The first two parts [1][2] of the MFC are complete, and all that remains is to have dr

[PATCH] options NET_WITH_GIANT has no effect on 5.x

2005-09-26 Thread Ed Maste
I tried to build a kernel with options NET_WITH_GIANT and discovered that debug_mpsafenet is still set to 1. It seems that when this was MFC'd the #include "opt_net.h" was missed; the attached patch should correct this. -- Ed Maste, Sandvine Incorporated

(Mostly) 5.4 DEVICE_POLLING and SMP LOR

2005-05-26 Thread Ed Maste
p = 0x9fbfecd8 --- -- Ed Maste, Sandvine Incorporated ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: libc_r kqueue fd leak

2005-05-24 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:01:31PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > yes, the reason I made _stat return ENXIO is that _read and _write are > not supported by kqueue, and so _stat provided useless information. > When I added locking, it would only be reading a value that would > immediately be able

Re: libc_r kqueue fd leak

2005-05-24 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:36:48PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:59:07PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > > > We discovered a kqueue leak when running one of our 4.x applications on > > FreeBSD 5.3 using the compat libc_r. It turns out it's caused by libc_

Re: libc_r kqueue fd leak

2005-05-24 Thread Ed Maste
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:59:07PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > We discovered a kqueue leak when running one of our 4.x applications on > FreeBSD 5.3 using the compat libc_r. It turns out it's caused by libc_r's > close() failing. I've attached a patch which stops libc_r

libc_r kqueue fd leak

2005-05-24 Thread Ed Maste
ailure and continue on with the close. == kqueue.c == #include #include #include #include int main() { struct stat sb; int kq=kqueue(); printf("fstat returns %d (%d)\n", fstat(kq, &sb), errno); printf("close returns %d (%d)\n", close(kq), errno); }

Re: Experimental ttwwakeup() panic patch

2005-05-18 Thread Ed Maste
e before. The crash only showed up on one nightly testrun out of dozens though, so I'm not certain it fixes the underlying issue. I'll let you know if anything else turns up. -- Ed Maste, Sandvine Incorporated ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd

Re: Experimental ttwwakeup() panic patch

2005-05-06 Thread Ed Maste
a0723ddf in Xint0x80_syscall () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:263 -- Ed Maste Sandvine Inc. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Patch for PNP BIOS hang

2005-01-03 Thread Ed Maste
A colleague of mine reported on a hang during boot on a SuperMicro board (with ACPI off): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-March/023045.html with some more analysis: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-July/030827.html as it turns out it doesn't actual