Re: How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 mips cpu?

2001-04-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 04.05 Miao Qingjun wrote: > > Can anybody help me? > > How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 > > mips cpu? > http://www.uclinux.org/ rm5230 isnt a microcontroller. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Re: bizarre TCP behavior

2001-04-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > If the router claims to be RFC compliant then you may want to investigate > trading standards bodies. In the UK at least things like the advertising > standards agency get upset by people who claim standards compliance, are shown > not to be compliant and are

via udma100 fix

2001-04-16 Thread Dan Hollis
I don't know if anyone noticed, but the supposed udma100 fix has been posted here: http://www.viahardware.com/download/viatweak.shtm At the bottom of the page. Technical discussion of the workaround (in german): http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html -Dan - To unsubscribe from t

Re: via udma100 fix

2001-04-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Technical discussion of the workaround (in german): > > http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-4.html > This was sent to me the other day, is this waht you are talking about?

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote: > The biggest thing that the linux community does to stifle innovation is to > bash commercial vendors trying to make a profit by whining endlessly about > "sourceless" distributions and recommending "open-source" solutions even > when they are wholly inferior. Y

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: > I did some research on the patent database and found nothing regarding such > a patent. There's patent on word processors (not the concept but related to) > and uses tab on the description...and that patent is from 1980. You know XOR is patented

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR). > But wasn't that Xerox that had that? US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc. > Yeah, the same ones that screwed us over with the compression patent > that shot .gif im

re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation... ]

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David Relson wrote: > At 08:52 PM 2/16/01, you wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > > You know XOR is patented (yes, the logical bit operation XOR). > > > But wasn't that Xerox that had that? > > US Patent #4,197,590 held by NuGraphics, Inc. >

3ware 6400 ATA-RAID bugs

2001-02-17 Thread Dan Hollis
Kernel 2.4.1-ac15, 3ware driver. 512mb ram, amd thunderbird 1000, 3ware escalade 6400 with 2 x 45gb IBM in raid5 mode. 'iozone 512 16384' is a guaranteed, repeatable way to totally kill this machine. The kernel starts spitting out a zillion of "Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers"

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation... ]

2001-02-17 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In 1984 I received a demand letter for $10,000 from the above > referenced company as a unlimited license for use of a that > patent and another patent. > At the time I ran a company that made graphics cards for IBM PCs. Did you ignore it or did you

Re: XOR [ was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > About a year later I was talking with a group of business owners who had > also received a similar demand letter. Some paid, some didn't. Those > who didn't pay were not pursued other than the occasional copy of the > demand letter. Probably they d

Re: Money stifles innovation [was: Linux stifles innovation.]

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:57:14AM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > The XOR patent and the fraudulent enforcement of it is the purest > > embodiment of everything that is wrong with the patent system and IP law. > As a person with

Re: [OT] Re: Money stifles innovation

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:47:10PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Actually the problem is lack of morals and bad people who are really evil > > at the core (you wouldnt want them for your neighbor). > Actually, it's because w

Re: 2.2.17 Lockup and ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)

2001-02-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Michael B. Allen wrote: > And why do I have 8 cdroms? > kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > kernel: scsi : 1 host. > kernel: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210A Rev: 1.07 > kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI

Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?

2001-02-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Daniel Ridge writes: > > I think we should instead focus our collective will on removing things > > from the kernel. For years, projects like ALSA, pcmcia-cs, and VMware > ALSA: driver work gets done twice Huh? -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > For why ide is beating scsi in this benchmark...make sure tagged queueing > is on (or increase the queue length?). For the xlog.c test posted, I would > expect scsi to get faster than ide as the size of the write increases. I have seen that many drives ei

Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other > numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of > protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr > or .br. I'm fully in favor of

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > barriers to a minority expressing speech that is unacceptable to the > majority. This is not acceptable. See Rowan v. United States Post Office. *Your* right to free speech stops at

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:24:16PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to implement technological > > > barriers to a minority expressing spe

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matt Beland wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2001 21:24, Dan Hollis wrote: > > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > You are suggesting that it is acceptable to

Re: [OT] Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

2001-01-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > See Rowan v. United States Post Office. > Why necessarily should I care about United States Post Office > or United States in general ? I suspect canadian law has similar precedents. > > *Your* right to fre

Re: The advantage of modules?

2001-01-08 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: > > so my take is unless you explicitly use hotplug devices (I wasn't), that > > it is much safer to unload the driver, unattach/attach scsi devices, and > > then reload the driver (which will scan the scsi bus for devices), which > > you need modules for. >

Re: The advantage of modules?

2001-01-08 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: > Seriously though, you can't depreciate a term for referring to a type of > bus without providing some other term to describe said bus. You need to distinguish between SCSI-the-protocol and SCSI-the-physical-layer. The term "SCSI" alone is simply too ambig

Re: HomePNA 2.0 flamage

2001-01-08 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > I suspect homepna is dead to be honest. Apparently its competing rather well with DSL for MDU deployments (eg hotels, apartment complexes) -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > :-) I think sendfile() should also have its logical extensions: > receivefile(). I dont know how the HPUX implementation works, but in > Linux, right now it's only possible to sendfile() from a file to a socket. > The logical extension of this is to allow s

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > y'know our pals have patented it? > http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05845280__ Bad faith patent? Actionable, treble damages? -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a > > > file (from the page cache), nothing more. > > Ok in any case, it would be nice to have a generic sendfile()

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: >Just extend sendfile to allow any fd to any fd. sendfile already >does file->socket and file->file. It only needs to be extended to >do socket->file. > This is not what senfile() does, it sends (to a network socket) a > file (from the page ca

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On 14 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's not the point of sendfile(). The point of sendfile() is to be > faster than the _combination_ of: > addr = mmap(file, ...len...); > write(fd, addr, len); > or > read(file, userdata, len); > write(fd, userdata, len); And boy is

Re: [PATCH] PCI-Devices and ServerWorks chipset

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Martin Mares wrote: > > I don't have the ServerWorks chipset documentation at hand, but I think your > > patch is wrong -- it doesn't make any sense to scan a bus _range_. The registers > > 0x44 and 0x45 are probably ID's of two

Re: 2.4 sendfile() not doing as manpage promises?

2000-11-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, bert hubert wrote: > After some exploring with 'ddd' (a very nice graphical frontend for gdb, > which includes tools to display and traverse structs), I found that this > probably means that sendfile() can only be used to send files from > blockdevices which support mmap()-lik

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote: > > there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your > > system, can make it almost impossible to detect that your system has been > > compramised. with module support disabled this isn't possib

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Christer Weinigel wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Lang wrote: > >> > there is a rootkit kernel module out there that, if loaded onto your > >> > system, can make it almost impossib

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > > >Kernel on writeprotected floppy disk... > Cute. And when (not if) we get hit by new bug in the net/*/* you will drive > to the location of said router to upgrade the thing. No, post/email a floppy to tech who swaps the floppy and reboots router. -D

Re: 2.4 sendfile() not doing as manpage promises?

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Moreover, the text Dan Hollis quotes is rather strange It's from redhat 6.0 man-pages-1.23-3 rpm package. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > > cmos battery. > > Checkmate. :-) > Only if you run your kernel XIP from the flash. If you load it into RAM, &

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Someone wrote: > > > > So change the CMOS-settings so that the BIOS changes the boot order > > > > from A, C, CD-ROM to C first instead. *grin* How long do you want > > > > to keep playing Tic-Tac-Toe? > > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboa

Re: [PATCH] Documentacion proc.txt update (2.4.x)

2000-11-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jorge Nerin wrote: > Well, this is a little update to the proc.txt file, it's based in 2.2 kernel, and I >have updated it a little to the 2.4 series, I have updated all the thing I have been >told in lk, so I submit this in order to include this in the main tree in order to

Re: Better testing of hardware (was: Defective Read Hat)

2000-11-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Stephen Gutknecht (linux-kernel) wrote: > What a Linux kernel compile DOESN'T test is the network interfaces and video > cards. Kernel compile over NFS while playing unreal tournament in X ;) -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > David Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This is true. What I suppose would be the solution is that if faulty > > hardware is found, a reduction in performance should be made. > Finding out if you've got bad RAM might take a few hours running mem86.

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Thanks to some nice people in #NVIDIA I found what seems to be a > > solution; compile with processor type as "K6". No segfaults, lost > > terminfo or disabled consoles. > > So are there issues with the K7 processor code? Bleh, never mind, I have > > no ide

Re: XFree 4.0.1/NVIDIA 0.9-5/2.4.0-testX/11 woes [solved]

2000-11-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:39:56 Dan Hollis wrote: > > Dont forget the nvidia driver is completely SMP broken. As in, trash your > > filesystems broken. > Not so broken. I use it under SMP 2.2.18-pre23 and works fine. Try unreal to

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote: > Gnea wrote: > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366 > > [snip] > > Have you tried updating the bios on the bp6? This solved a LOT of > > problems for me, and afaik, ru is the latest

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Richard Torkar wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote: > > > Gnea wrote: > > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > > Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366 &g

Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux

2000-12-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ditto, we have an adsl driver that we setup by overloading various otherwise > > unused options in ifconfig (mem_start, io_addr etc) to do this. Cheaper and > > faster than writing yet another ioctl using device configuration agent, but > > distasteful non t

Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA. Depends on the controller. Maxtor drives play badly with Highpoint controllers, but are OK with Promise. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Problems with PDC202xx driver

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Nope you have a chipset that is designed wrong. Who makes an on-board chipset (not southbridge) which is designed right? Highpoint makes HPT370, but after HPT366 fiasco I'm not sure I trust them anymore... -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On 3 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Hedrick) writes: > >Apology to Jeff, > >I am sorry to here of this, but I know what you mean about microsoft. > >My and co-worker's code for doing full taskfile access under linux was > >rejected here but is being used in M

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On 5 Sep 2000, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: > >IPX is a really good LAN protocol (but totally sucks for internet). A > Jeff, Netware is dead. Please leave it there. IP won. The number of > new Netware Installations (as compared to existing or just

Re: zero-copy TCP

2000-09-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:25:12AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > I think you mean IPX is dead. Netware *could* work over TCP or UDP. > > IP is definitely king. Even micro$haft gave up on NetBEUI. > Yep, thats' what I

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > For things like driver debugging its the only way to work. Hardware simply does > not work like the manual says and no amount of Zen contemplation will ever > make you at one with a 3c905B ethernet card. This is probably the best argument for a kernel debug

Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module

2000-09-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Martin Dalecki wrote: > 2. WINE in itself is barely usefull - even in fact non existant, since > there is no official stable release out there. Speak for yourself. Many people find it extremely useful; some depend on it. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: Ethernet Driver for Built in Network Card

2000-09-17 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Craig Whitmore wrote: > I think its the D815EEA Board (its not right here at the moment) > and it says it has the "Intergrated Intel Pro/100V Network Connection > Whats the Diff between the i82557/558/559 boards and this i82865 one? i82865 is apparently another name for the i

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adrian Cox wrote: > cPCI is PCI + hotswap. Most people seem to ignore the hotswap, except at > tradeshows. ISPs certainly don't ignore hotswap. Unfortunately, Linux does. :) :( -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > I'd disagree on the ISP thing too btw. Telcos care a lot about hotswap PCI, > but ISP services you can take a down box with a failover of a machine - > which in general is a lot easier and overall better coverage Alan, you want an ISP to configure identical

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > Alan, you want an ISP to configure identical machines for linux routers > > just so they can hotswap NICs? What have you been putting in your tea > > lately 8) > [...] > One may have cPCI configuration wi

Re: cPCI development

2000-09-22 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Vitaly Luban wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > Easy for ethernet where you have shared media and switches, but what about > > ptp synchronous serial lines? Oh dear thats a problem isnt it 8) > Not, if one have two USARTs, receivers paralleled & syncronized

Re: trident sound chip programming

2000-10-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, daniel sheltraw wrote: > Does anyone have a contact at Trident or one of the sound card > manufacturers using this chip that could provide the docs I need? Trident has laid off its entire 4dwave engineering team so there is noone left at Trident who knows anything about these

Re: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alex Buell wrote: > Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account > yanked for abuse of mailing lists. http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send complaints to. The machine's physical location is in Cary, NC. Anyone live nea

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master) > you can review it at: > http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm There is no reason there cannot be multiple AGP buses. After all there are motherboards with 2,3,4 (or more!) PCI buses.

Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Timur Tabi wrote: > ** Reply to message from James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 19 Oct 2000 > 18:34:51 -0700 (PDT) > > Apple sells a computer with dual AGP slots. > I've never heard this. Could you tell me exactly which model this is? I think he's confusing dualhead ca

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-30 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > TUX modules are kernel modules (I mean you have to write kernel space code for > doing TUX ftp). Don't you agree that zero-copy sendfile like ftp serving would > be able to perform equally well too? For this to bw useful for ftp we need a sendfile()

Re: [tulip-bug] ADMtek Comet bug

2000-11-02 Thread Dan Hollis
Anyone having a problem with the ADMtek Comet TX lockups, please contact me. I believe I have found a fix but need some people to test it. Details of this bug can be found here: http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-tulip-bug/2000-Oct/0012.html -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: [bug] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

2000-11-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: > > > Ok, something happend to the tulip driver in the recent testN kernels. > > > I haven't found a reason why it happens and I can't easily reproduce it &

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > And they don't solve the problem David was talking about. There is a short > deeply unpleasant scream from some soundcards on reload because the card init > and the 0.5-1 second later aumix run dont stop the feedback loop fast enough > when a mic is plugged in

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, James A. Sutherland wrote: > So autoload the module with a "dont_screw_with_mixer" option. When the kernel > first boots, initialise the mixer to suitable settings (load the module with > "do_screw_with_mixer" or whatever); thereafter, the driver shouldn't change > the mixer s

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > like i said, their code has worked well for me, but they seem intent > > on keeping it as obscure as possible... (i remember someone posted to > No idea on the sensors stuff Whats keeping lm78 from being integrated into 2.4? -Dan - To unsubscribe from th

Re: ServerWorks docs?

2000-12-16 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Dec 2000, Rico Tudor wrote: > > Does anyone have reference material for the ServerWorks northbridge? > > I want to add their chipsets to my ECC-monitoring utility, but their > > web site is little more than marketing drivel. Plus, they don't re

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > It's a combination of chipset and drive that causes the problems. I've > been using ata66 with the same controller on a different drive > (FUJITSU MPE3136AT) for some time now, and it's been rock solid. It's only > the IBM DTLA drive that's been a probl

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Too bad Maxtor is still broken with hpt366... > > Also, using CDROM on hpt366 is recipe for disaster... > Does the Maxtor and/or CDROM problems have anything to do with udma66? Ie > if

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-02 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Also, using CDROM on hpt366 is recipe for disaster... > ATAPI in general actually, and as I understand it only with DMA. Nope I can blow it up with PIO also... -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: s

Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breakingbug exploits

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Aloni wrote: > > without breaking anything. It also reports of such calls by using printk. > Get real. Why do you always have to be insulting alex? Sheesh. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breakingbug exploits

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Dan Aloni wrote: > Anyway, while it is agreed that you can't completely eliminate exploits, > it is recommended that, it should be at least harder to create them, maybe > it can even minimize the will to write them. The argument against these sort of protection mechanisms seem

Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breakingbug exploits

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote: > Your comparing actual security with stack guarding? Stack guarding mearly > makes the attack diffrent.. rootkits are already available to defeat it. url? -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: [RFC] prevention of syscalls from writable segments, breakingbug exploits

2001-01-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > > Your comparing actual security with stack guarding? Stack guarding mearly > > > makes the attack diffrent.. rootkits are already available t

Re: PATCH 2.2.18.9: Backport /proc/pci from 2.4.x to 2.2.x

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I see you suggestion in the same way... If we keep the PCI device name > data around after boot, then we have a lot of kernel memory locked up > on the off chance that a HotPlug PCI device might appear for which we > need a name. > I would much prefer a u

Better than SYNcookies?

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Hollis
I dont know how many here read /. but recently someone's gone round touting a new SYN defense system that he claims is better than SYNcookies. http://grc.com/r&d/NoMoreDoS2.htm Specifically, Steve Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claims: I followed those links and read about SYN Cookies yesterday

Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.

2000-09-27 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Russell King wrote: > Alan Cox writes: > > So is there a URL with the whole discussion on. It looks like a fun read ? > Have a look at the linux-arm-kernel archive at > http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/ > for the thread: > Re: information request abou

Re: TCP vegas implementation

2001-03-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Mordechai Ovits wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0500, Hao Sun wrote: > > > From Neal Cardwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > Tue, 20 Jul 1999 03:08:21 -0700 (PDT) > > > A new TCP Vegas patch for 2.2.10/2.3.10 is available at: > > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/car

Re: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems

2001-03-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Matthew Wilcox writes: > > people who can afford 2TB of disc can afford to buy a 64-bit processor. > This whole "64-bit" fallacy has got to stop. Indeed. > Now it is "anybody who needs > 2TB disk should use a 64-bit CPU", soon > to be wrong. It was a

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-27 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > c) Make sure chown/chmod/link/symlink/rename/rm etc does the right thing, > without the need for "tar hacks" or anything equivalently gross. write-through filesystem, like overlaying a r/w ext2 on top of an iso9660 fs. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this

Re: New gigabit cards

2001-03-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Some of the products seem so new that their manufactuors have little to no > information available about them on their webpage. One that I found, had > conflicting specs and claimed to only have a 32kbyte recieve buffer. Thats the hardware FIFO size.

Re: TCP Vegas implementation for Linux

2001-04-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Our (VA's) kernel includes a Vegas patch: >ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/people/chip/linux-vegas-v2-patch-2.2 tcp vegas performs very badly for me on asymmetric links (e.g. adsl), about 50% performance loss vs non-vegas. -Dan - To unsubscribe from th

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Felix von Leitner wrote: > What is missing here is a good authoritative web ressource that tells > people which NIC to buy. > I have a tulip NIC because a few years ago that apparently was the NIC > of choice. It has good multicast (which is important to me), but AFAIK > it h

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Scott Laird wrote: > Where do cards with PCI-PCI bridges, like multiport PCI ethernet cards, > fit into this? I can easily add 3 or 4 extra busses into a box just by > grabbing a couple extra Intel dual-port Ethernet cards. I loaded a PC with quad-tulip cards once and the re

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: > > Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, > > which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation > > info on ALL drives. > Maybe a compile option could help... kernel paramete

Re: CPU error codes

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Parity/ECC on main memory is reported by the chipset and needs seperate > > drivers or apps to handle this > Yes - MCE only covers errors in the CPU's cache, IIRC? (Is there still an > NMI on main memory parity

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Not just crap hardware, but also vendors who refuse to release proper material > required for writing drivers. NVidia springs to my mind. This would be a browser-busting webpage, the page would be so long... -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gerhard Mack wrote: > > Its what I would describe as lack of enforcement by trading standards bodies, > > and I suspect what the US would call 'insufficient class action lawsuits' > What we need is a web page for listing crap hardware so less people buy > it. And then get sue

Re: Dual Athlon on 2.2.19 ?

2001-05-24 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > Which patch of mine did you apply? Which motherboard are you doing your > testing with? The dual tyan presumably. Or are there others you are aware of. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Dual Athlon Performance

2001-05-28 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > Please see the Beowulf mailing list (www.beowulf.org) - a dual athlon system > was tested there about a month ago, and various tests were collected and run. http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/ Archives for March and April conveniently missing.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] 4 ports ETH cards

2001-05-29 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Fabbione wrote: > I found some cards based on the DEC 21*4* chips but when > I asked for more details I got a strange answer from the reseller > like that this card is able to work only half-duplex and the chip has > only one mac-address for the 4 eth cards (really strange).

Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

2001-06-06 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote: > I *do* hate silent data corruption :() An "integrity loopback" device would certainly detect silent corruption. Eg a loopback which CRC's all blocks read/written and screams loudly if the CRC fails. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

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2001-06-15 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? =C1=E5=EB=EE=E1=EE=F0=EE=E4=EE=E2?= wrote: > "Íåò íåðàçðåøèìûõ ñèòóàöèé, åñòü òîëüêî íåæåëàíèå èõ > [... drivel deleted ...] Received: from [195.161.132.168] ([195.161.132.168]:38150 "HELO 777") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 15 Jun 20

ALi magik1 datasheet?

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Hollis
Does anyone have the ALi magik1 northbridge datasheet? (ALi M1647) The pdf "documentation" files on the ALi web site are just sales brochures. Yes, i've already asked ALi repeatedly in emails and filled out the online datasheet request forms and they have responded with deafening silence. -Dan

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: > You can choose to work somewhere else, or choose to enter a different field. As demonstrated many times over the past several years, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a PC without bundled m$-ware. Even if you dont use m$-ware you are stil

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Justin Guyett wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: > > As demonstrated many times over the past several years, it is becoming > > increasingly difficult to buy a PC without bundled m$-ware. Even

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, William T Wilson wrote: > My understanding is that astronauts going up on the shuttle take turns > bringing a laptop computer so they have actual computing power available > to them. The shuttle computer is not adequate for many tasks because it > is something like 30 years ol

Re: [OT] Quad-cpu motherboard recommendation

2001-07-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > can someone please recommend a motherboard that can carry four CPUs, > either AMD or Intel (but other than Pentium III Xeon 700 Mhz) capable of > running Linux? So you want a quad-pentiumpro-200 do you? :D -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: AMD thunderbird oops

2001-06-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Random oopses normally indicate faulty board cpu or ram (and the fault may > even just be overheating or dimms not in the sockets cleanly). I doubt its > the board design or model that is the problem, you probably jut have a faulty > component somewhere if it

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