Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
Kai Henningsen wrote: > No. GEM, I believe, originally came from CP/M. Most popular as the > windowing system of the Atari ST; given that someone did a quick-hack MS- > DOS clone to support it on the 68K, it seems fairly obvious that by that > time, it had already been ported to MS-DOS. (GEM-DOS i

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac14

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
David Weinehall wrote: > > We don't provide the binutils or gcc with the kernel either. The 6502 > > is a rather well known processor. Try plonking "6502 assembler" in > > google and you'll have a lot of choice. > > Me likee, finally asm in the kernel I can grok. Someone else who has trouble w

Re: [PATCH] include/linux/coda.h

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas Dodd
Ryan Cumming wrote: > When compiling the kernel under FreeBSD, __KERNEL__ is defined, but > __linux__ is not. I think this is an error on the part of the header file, > because on non-Linux build environments, which would otherwise compile the > Linux kernel correctly, do not have __linux__ define

Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > > > An interesting option (though with less-than-stellar performance > > characteristics) would be a dynamically expanding swapfile. If you're > > going to be hit with swap penalties, it may be useful to not have to > > pre-rese

Re: binfmt_misc on 2.4.3-ac14

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >is it going to become the default in future kernel releases? > It's been that way in the -ac kernels for a while now, but Linus hasn't put it > into his kernels yet. Perhaps he's waiting until work begins on 2.5, rather > than break an e

Re: Current status of NTFS support

2001-04-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating > the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after > installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I > can't mount it read-only bec

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > Looks ok to me but given the ability of the average kernel hacker to read > help texts I;d rather it was a choice menu of say OK, I guess I gave too much credit :) This gives 4 options, 4K, 8K, 16K, and 32K. 4K is for the embedded guys, but they might want even less. 32K is

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > Since we expect to get errata docs very soon Im not that worried. As an > implementation I'd rather a module option of 'ignore_blacklist' or similar > so that it is runtime This seamed to work here. -Thomas diff -u --new-file --recursive linux-2.4.3-ac2.orig/drivers

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote: > > IMO, it would be nice to add a test here whether the CONFIG_PRINTK_BUF_LEN > value is really set as a power of two, eg.: > > #if (LOG_BUF_LEN & LOG_BUF_MASK) > #error CONFIG_PRINTK_BUF_LEN must be a power of two > #endif I couldn't figure out how to do it in th

Config printk buffer size

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
This should allow the printk buffer to be sized during config. The default size is still 16K. It could use some checking to insure power-of-2, but CML1 doesn't have a way to do it that I see. All the architectures should be covered, and all the default files also have it. It gets added in the ke

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
David Brownell wrote: > > please correct me if i'm wrong i only don't want to blacklist complete > > chipset-series > > Then feel free to develop and submit a better fix. That'd > be more practical if AMD's workaround were public. As I > understand it, the bulk of the production chips have this

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted due to

2001-04-04 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > > David Brownell recently added this check to the usb-ohci driver > > since noone has gotten information from AMD for the workaround, > > which is rumored to exist, for this bug. > > > > Do any of you have contacts within AMD who might be able to > > get an explanation of the

Re: USB oops Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-03-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Peter Zaitcev wrote: > > > > 2.4.2-ac6 > > > o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev) > > > The first line of the oops is > > > > > > kernel BUG at slab.c:1398! > > > > Any other ideas to try? > > -Thomas > > I did not break it, honest! I will be looking in

Re: How to mount /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ?

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > which makes sense, I guess, because proc isn't a "real" filesystem. So how do I > get binfmt_misc mounted? mount it somewhere else, say, /dev/binfmt_mount instead of in /proc until the proc entry is fixed. What should creat /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc ? -Th

Re: State of RAID (and the infamous FastTrak100 card)

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Dodd
Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > > So... am I just begging for pain if I try to install, say, a stock RH7 > > > on a machine with the FastTrak100 doing it's little RAID0/JBOD thing? > > > If it requires this machine to always boot from a floppy because the driver > > > ca

Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

2001-03-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andre Hedrick wrote: > >From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today: >self-destruct if it's tampered with. The utility is enabled >with 11 layers of security defenses, all of which must be >successfully navigated to disable the system. These layers >range from a series of forced r

Re: DMA on a AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Dodd
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hylke van der Schaaf wrote: > > > With kernet 2.2.18 DMA mode for my harddisks worked just fine, > > getting IDE DMA working on an AMD7409 controller with kernel 2.4.2 is a problem. > > > > questions: > > Why is DMA disabled on revision < C4? > > How can I gat DMA working ag

USB oops Linux 2.4.2ac6

2001-02-28 Thread Thomas Dodd
2.4.2-ac3 was fine. These are the only USB changes I see since then. > 2.4.2-ac6 > o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev) > > 2.4.2-ac5 > o Fix busy loop in usb storage(Arjan van de Ven) > o Fix USB thread wakeup scheduling

Re: [PATCH] use correct include dir for build tools

2001-02-22 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mike Castle wrote: > (libc does usually take care to be able to build against a later kernel > version than you're running on, and determine at run time what features may > or may not be there, so one could have a 2.4.2 kernel handy to build libc > against while still running a 2.2.18 kernel. The

Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Thomas Dodd wrote: > > Robert Read wrote: > > > > Ok, here is a simple patch to add a config option, I'm compiling it > > now, so it's not tested yet. One question: what is the best way to > > force this option to be a power of 2? > > Why not j

Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Robert Read wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:37:16PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > Robert Read wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:08AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > > > > > > > > Has anyone tried 128K buffer size in kernel/pr

Re: kernel/printk.c: increasing the buffer size to capture devfsd debug messages.

2001-02-20 Thread Thomas Dodd
Robert Read wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:08AM +0900, Ishikawa wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried 128K buffer size in kernel/printk.c > > and still have the kernel boot (without > > hard to notice memory corruption problems and other subtle bugs)? > > Any hints and tips will be appreciat

2.4.1-ac14 won't boot

2001-02-16 Thread Thomas Dodd
2.4.1-ac8 worked great, 2.4.1-ac13 and ac14 oops in IDE initialization. All 3 have ide.2.4.1-p8.all.01172001.patch applied too. I'll try it without the ide patch today. -Thomas ---kernel messages--- Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system

Re: IDE DMA Problems...system hangs

2001-02-14 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jasmeet Sidhu wrote: > > Hey guys, > > I am attaching my previous email for additional info. Now I am using > kernel 2.4.1-ac12 and these problems have not gone away. > > Anybody else having these problems with a ide raid 5? > > The Raid 5 performance should also be questioned..here are some

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-08 Thread Thomas Dodd
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Jeremy M. Dolan] > > Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile > > Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached. > > It wouldn't do any good. Many months ago, Ted Ts'o pleaded with > Richard Gooch (devfs author, from Au

Re: need help raid and 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread Thomas Dodd
david wrote: > > hi i am moving from 2.2.18 to 2.4.0 i have a ide raid set but can not > get it to run under 2.4.0 > i user mdadd / mdrun to config it. in raid-tools 0.42 but it dose not > come up under 2.4.0 it just says unknow devices /dev/hda3 & /dev/hdc3 > but thay are thear and when i try to

Re: 2.2.18 signal.h

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Dodd
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:55:08PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > x() > > > { > > > > > > switch (1) { > > > case 0: > > > case 1: > > > case 2: > > > case 3: > > > ; > > > } > > > } > >

Re: hdparm settings: Can they be permanent?

2000-10-06 Thread Thomas Dodd
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Harald Welte wrote: > > >Some distributions already have the hdparm initscript. > > I'm not sure about that one for RH.. I use my own script, but > there might be one now.. rc.sysinit looks at /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in pinstripe and guinness.