[osol-discuss] Re: OpenBSD donation request

2006-03-23 Thread Lars C
I did just that, the OpenBSD project will contact the Ombudsman. This thread may be closed. Sorry for the hassle. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Mika Borner
+1 With the new Sun Ray Connector for Windows http://www.sun.com/software/products/sr_connector/index.xml it would be nice to run those nasty little non-Unix like Applications on top of Solaris, serving Terminal Server Sessions. //Mika >>> Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/06 6:08 pm >>>

Re: Support for SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI) ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread James C. McPherson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: I still run SCSI at home, old habits are hard to break...but SATA is looking attractive for the future. SATA is very limited on current support but the Silicon Image 3124 is working in SATA II mode and putback into nevada. Will Sun support SAS (=Seria

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenBSD donation request

2006-03-23 Thread Ché Kristo
Whilst everyone appreciates and most definitely respects the work on OpenSSH and the OpenBSD project itself this is tantamount to spam, a worthy cause but spam nonetheless ;) Perhaps you could contact directly Sun's Open Source Ombudsman and discuss this with him... This message posted from ope

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Funding OpenSSH]

2006-03-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/23/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > > Just forwarding this request as this affects OpenSolaris, too: > > Original Message > Subject: Funding OpenSSH > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:32:04 +1100 (EST) > From: Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAI

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Thanks, Alan. You have a second (and some clarifications). Eric will get you guys set up. Jim Alan Maguire wrote: The Quagga project (https://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/quagga-design.pdf) involves integration of the open source Quagga routing protocol suite (http://www.quagg

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Funding OpenSSH]

2006-03-23 Thread David J. Orman
Hello, Please understand that this is a mailing list. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7083&tstart=0 While your request is much more well thought out than the previous one today, I suggest you send your requests for donation to the appropriate entities. I don't believe a publ

[osol-discuss] [Fwd: Funding OpenSSH]

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Just forwarding this request as this affects OpenSolaris, too: Original Message Subject: Funding OpenSSH Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:32:04 +1100 (EST) From: Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, This mail is a request for vendor

Re: [osol-discuss] Schillix 0.5.1 mini review

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
ken mays wrote: [snip] > 4. Running 'startx' gave us the Xterm screens and X > windows without any issues. Does it use the "twm" window manager or something else ? Note: If "twm" is used then it may be nice to hook-up "xsm" (which starts "twm") as it would give X11 session management, too... :-)

[osol-discuss] Re: JAVA iSCSI Target implementation ? / was: Re: Re:

2006-03-23 Thread Nigel Smith
No, I don't think so. As far as I'm know, the iSCSI target software needs to be written in 'C' as it needs to link into the kernel, and it's the sort of thing where performance of the code is critical. Anyway, I see from a recent post on this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable tosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:59:46AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > Eric Lowe wrote: > > TANSTAAFL. > > "TANSTAAFL" = ? http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TANSTAAFL.html There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable to set thedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Lowe wrote: > Holger Berger wrote: > >> To make matters worse, Solaris (unlike many other > >> OS's) ties page_t structures to particular physical > >> addresses, and there is plenty of code that assumes > >> p_pagenum can't change even if the page isn't locked. > >> This complicates the issue

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable tosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Lowe wrote: [snip] > Aside from the apps that broke the next largest drawback seen with the 64K > prototype kernels was that when you have only 64K pages, if you touch 8K > in the middle of a mmap() region you end up writing back 64K to the > backing store. If you do this enough (which some ap

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread David S. Miller
From: Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:42:45 -0800 > I believe there was also some amount of filesystem muckings-around; the > fact that the minimum unit of modification octupled causes any number of > performance and implementation headaches. Let alone assumptions abo

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:28:05AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > Eric Lowe wrote: > > David S. Miller wrote: > > > Or did Solaris accidently return 8K always in some version of the > > > Solaris libc? I don't see how this is possible, as applications > > > > No that wasn't the case. The case Bart

Re: autoconf/compiler (in-)compatibilit{-y/-ies} / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to remove/usr/sfwandits dependencies from the bas

2006-03-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:29:42PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > These days have changed. X11 is now autoconf-based and now suffers from > similar funny problems. Autoconf has nothing to do with library compatibility. Perhaps you're blaming libtool, for which no one can fault you. > BTW: The ope

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Lowe wrote: > David S. Miller wrote: > > Or did Solaris accidently return 8K always in some version of the > > Solaris libc? I don't see how this is possible, as applications > > No that wasn't the case. The case Bart mentioned was one, an app was > creating a unmapped zone around a segment

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable to setthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Jonathan Adams wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:14:25AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > > BTW: The discussion was about a _tuneable_ which could be set to a value > > used as default page size (used by kernel and returned by > > |getpagesize()|&co.) - the default for this tuneable should remain 8k.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable to setthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Bart Smaalders wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Eric Lowe wrote: > but there's too much code out there that just breaks. The > programmers made implicit assumptions about the approximate > size of a page, and that was that. > >>> Which code breaks ? Userland or kernel code ? Was > >

Re: Support for SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI) ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>Alan DuBoff wrote: >> I still run SCSI at home, old habits are hard to break...but SATA is looking >> attractive for the future. SATA is very limited on current support but the >> Silicon Image 3124 is working in SATA II mode and putback into nevada. > >Will Sun support SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, James Carlson wrote: I think SFW was intended. That's where Zebra is now, and Quagga is the follow-on for Zebra. Yep. (Even if Quaggas are extinct ...) "Quagga was an extinct (GNU) Zebra" - makes sense if you read the words as nouns. However, apparently Quagga is com

[osol-discuss] Re: [arc-discuss] Looking for ARC materials for PSARC 2005/441 (iSCSI Target for Solaris)

2006-03-23 Thread Eric Boutilier
Cross-posting from arc-discuss... Cyril Plisko wrote: On 3/23/06, John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Plocher wrote: In this specific iSCSI case, the project proposal says "this project will not be part of OpenSolaris and remain a closed source project." Until we

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: No, *NOT* 'aka the "Companion CD"'. SFW and the Companion are completely separate entities. SFW delivers packages to the WOS; the Companion is a separate, entirely optional and unsupported, product. That was a slip of Alan's tongue. :) It's mea

Re: [osol-discuss] Unifying configuration files management / use

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan Coopersmith writes: > > Yann POUPET wrote: > > > > Thus maybe writing config files with an XML format would help ? > > > > > > Furthermore, as I said before, there may be a lot of config files. > > > Why not have ALL configuration into a single file ? That could be

The fate of libcmd... / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Unifying configuration files management / use

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Yann POUPET wrote: > > Since many (most ?) config files may be something like : > > > > # some comments > > param1 = arg1 > > param2 = arg2 > > param3 = arg3 > > # another comment > > param4 = arg4 > > > > why not having a lib function that would help parsing/reading/writi

Re: Support for SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI) ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:40 pm, Roland Mainz wrote: > Will Sun support SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI) anytime soon on both x86 > and SPARC with normal PCI/PCI-E cards (e.g. beyond the one in the T-2000 > machines) ? I don't know, maybe someone who does will jump in. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Micros

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenBSD donation request

2006-03-23 Thread Lars C
Please let me apologize for coming across as an intruder soliciting. It was not my intention to inflame. I am not officially speaking for the OpenBSD group. The reason why I chose this way of opening a channel of communication is that I thought, maybe mistakenly, that it is the most direct way to

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread James Carlson
Keith M Wesolowski writes: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:09:11PM -0800, Alan Maguire wrote: > > > The Quagga project > > (https://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/quagga-design.pdf) > > involves integration of the open source Quagga routing protocol > > suite (http://www.quagga.net) as i

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread James C. McPherson
Roland Mainz wrote: "James C. McPherson" wrote: Alan DuBoff wrote: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:32 pm, James C. McPherson wrote: You could try using glm instead. I was involved for a while with the effort to port it from sparc. It integrated into snv_28. 5026812 Need 64bit glm driver support on

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
"James C. McPherson" wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:32 pm, James C. McPherson wrote: > >> You could try using glm instead. I was involved for a while with the > >> effort to port it from sparc. It integrated into snv_28. > >> 5026812 Need 64bit glm driver support on x86

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to remove /usr/sfw and itsdependencies from the bas

2006-03-23 Thread David J. Orman
> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> > Was there a document at some point in history ( this is UNIX and it >> > has tons of history ) called the FSSTD or was it FHS ? >> > >> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html >> > ( this may be a Linux animal however ) >> >> Tha

Support for SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI) ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan DuBoff wrote: > I still run SCSI at home, old habits are hard to break...but SATA is looking > attractive for the future. SATA is very limited on current support but the > Silicon Image 3124 is working in SATA II mode and putback into nevada. Will Sun support SAS (=Serial Attached SCSI) anyti

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to remove /usr/sfw and itsdependencies from the bas

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Was there a document at some point in history ( this is UNIX and it > > has tons of history ) called the FSSTD or was it FHS ? > > > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html > > ( this may be a Linux animal however ) > > That's the L

autoconf/compiler (in-)compatibilit{-y/-ies} / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to remove/usr/sfwandits dependencies from the bas

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Tribble wrote: > My problem really is with libraries that don't have compatibility > built in. For an example of something that just works and doesn't > give problems, then look at X11. If only everything else were > that simple. These days have changed. X11 is now autoconf-based and now suf

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:09:11PM -0800, Alan Maguire wrote: > The Quagga project > (https://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/quagga-design.pdf) > involves integration of the open source Quagga routing protocol > suite (http://www.quagga.net) as is into the SFW consolidation (aka > the

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Sebastien Roy
Alan Maguire wrote: We propose to make Quagga an official OpenSolaris project. I second that. -Seb ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the {sh, ksh}-shells used to build ON...

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Is there a way to change the shells {/bin/sh, /bin/ksh} used to build ON > >to an alternative set of {sh, ksh}-shells for testing ? I am seeking for > >a way to do that without having to replace the system versions (which > >would likely cause trouble in a multiuser e

[osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Maguire
The Quagga project (https://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/quagga-design.pdf) involves integration of the open source Quagga routing protocol suite (http://www.quagga.net) as is into the SFW consolidation (aka the "Companion CD") and update routing management to support SMF. The f

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: [snip] > > > > > 1. Use gcc instead. There are 22 open bugs that affect ON when built > > > > > with gcc, most of which cause compilation failure and are trivial to > > > > > fix. Use the gcc 3.4.3 delivered with Solaris Express build 22 or > > > > > later. I can't comment o

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: [snip] > > > > The constructive solutions available to you are: > > > > > > > > 1. Use gcc instead. There are 22 open bugs that affect ON when built > > > > with gcc, most of which cause compilation failure and are trivial to > > > > fix. Use the gcc 3.4.3 delivered with Sola

Re: Namespaces for #pragma ? / was: Re: "-xstrconst" patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compilingkernel+tools with "-xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all"

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:51:01PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >typeof(arg1) > > > >strchr(const char *, char) > > > > > > > >or something similar that would carry the actual input over to the return > > > >value. > > > > > > It would soon g

Re: [osol-discuss] Build just the 32bit parts of kernel and tools -possible?

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Felix Schulte wrote: > Does On Trunk allow that only the 32bit i386 bits are build and > packaged? I would like to reduce the compile time of the kernel if > this is possible. Take a look at the POLARIS build instructions (I couldn't find the page ad-hoc, but http://lists.blastwave.org/pipermail/b

Published PSARC 2006/082: zpool import destroyed pools (was Re: [osol-discuss] 2 new request-sponsor putbacks: 45 total)

2006-03-23 Thread John Plocher
Jim Grisanzio wrote: Cyril Plisko wrote: On 3/16/06, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks to Rich Lowe and Robert Milkowski for these two bug fixes below and to Sarah Jelinek and Darren Moffat for sponsoring the fixes through to putback. Also note that Robert's led to an ARC case.

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenBSD donation request

2006-03-23 Thread David J. Orman
I don't think this is the right place to be soliciting donations, as I really don't want to have my emailbox full of "Please donate" posts - and I imagine other people do not as well. Pointing fingers and saying "you use our OPEN/FREE code but never donated so donate now!" is just going to inflame

Namespaces for #pragma ? / was: Re: "-xstrconst" patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compilingkernel+tools with "-xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all"

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >typeof(arg1) > > >strchr(const char *, char) > > > > > >or something similar that would carry the actual input over to the return > > >value. > > > > It would soon give you C++ type overloading. Might not be bad, but you > > know where to find

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Peter Buckingham
Hi Eric, Eric Lowe wrote: >> okay, we've just seen some strange problems without swap. i haven't had >> time to look into why, so we are just going to use swap anyway for now. > > Please let us know you perceive to be "strange issues" are. I'll look into filing a bug when i get a chance. Basica

JAVA iSCSI Target implementation ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: iSCSI Target implementation?

2006-03-23 Thread Roland Mainz
Nigel Smith wrote: > > Yes, please could you check & report back if any work or progress is being > made on 'iSCSI target' support for Solaris. > > If it were possible to team-up an SCSI target with the ZFS filesystem, it > would be really useful, and get lot's of new people using Solaris. > >

[osol-discuss] OpenBSD donation request

2006-03-23 Thread Lars C
Hi all Probably most of you have heard about the financial problems the OpenBSD project has. The OpenSSH project is part of it too. Now the OpenBSD project suffers because it's income is dwindling. It's dwindling because people just download the software but don't buy CDs and donate. Large compa

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable tosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Eric Lowe
Eric Lowe wrote: Holger Berger wrote: I wasn't directly involved in the 64K prototype but only 64K and larger were used for user applications, and the page_t was 64K in span (PAGESIZE=65536). There may have been some 8K mappings in the kernel due to OBP handing off translation lists with holes

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable tosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Eric Lowe
Holger Berger wrote: I wasn't directly involved in the 64K prototype but only 64K and larger were used for user applications, and the page_t was 64K in span (PAGESIZE=65536). There may have been some 8K mappings in the kernel due to OBP handing off translation lists with holes -- I don't remember

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Eric Lowe
okay, we've just seen some strange problems without swap. i haven't had time to look into why, so we are just going to use swap anyway for now. Please let us know you perceive to be "strange issues" are. Solaris virtual memory is designed to work just fine without swap space. It's not pretty w

[osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like

2006-03-23 Thread Stephen Potter
I did this just the other day, for most of the reasons you mentioned. My wife finally made me give up my old Solaris test box (an Athlon 1200) so she could get the kids and their games off her computer. I'm thinking of getting a new X2 based system, but in the interest of family harmony I'm tr

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable tosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Holger Berger
On 3/19/06, Eric Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holger Berger wrote: > >> I wasn't directly involved in the 64K prototype but only 64K and larger > >> were used for user applications, and the page_t was 64K in span > >> (PAGESIZE=65536). There may have been some 8K mappings in the kernel due > >

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:51:29AM -0800, Peter Buckingham wrote: > I'll try to get a new nevada system running soon. If only i could figure > out bfu... There's no need to use BFU if you just want to use or evaluate Solaris Nevada. Get the Solaris Express or SX Community Release ISOs and use th

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Peter Buckingham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is kinda what tmpfs could offer if it was possible to have > pre-load it. > > However, this sounds very much like an ordinary filesystem: you load in > RAM what you need and nothing more. i'd like to be able to load it like a ramdisk. in linux (sorry, it's what i k

[osol-discuss] Re: [powerpc-discuss] OpenBoot on non-SPARC systems?

2006-03-23 Thread Rainer Orth
Shudong Zhou writes: > There are various projects aiming to replace the BIOS. The following > URL provides a very nice summary: > http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/firmware/ Thanks, that was really useful. > The article is probably biased toward EFI, but I do think EFI has > the momen

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Peter Buckingham
Jonathan Adams wrote: > > 6230033 prtdiag should be implemented for Solaris x86 > 6313638 SMBIOS Support for Solaris > > both integrated in snv_23, and both should be available in Solaris > 10 Update 2. okay, i guess i need to update. our product is based on Solaris 10, so i'm still trying to fi

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Peter Buckingham
Hi All, There are a bunch of things that I'd like to see in solaris. Although some of these my be showing my lack of knowledge of solaris though... - support for initramfs (rather than just plain ramdisks) - better support for running without swap o hence having a

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>basically we have a system that is booting from a ramdisk and is limited >by memory. by doing this we have the ability to only allocate the amount >of space that is used by the files. This is then overlayed on a ramfs >(ala tmpfs) that can grow if necessary. in short it just minimises the >amount

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:07:44AM -0800, Peter Buckingham wrote: > >> - better driver/device support for x86 (there is a lot of info > >> missing from prtconf that would be available in other OS's > >> through /proc, /sys or sysctl) > > > > What about prtdiag(1m) and smbios(1m). >

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Peter Buckingham
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Peter Buckingham wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> There are a bunch of things that I'd like to see in solaris. Although >> some of these my be showing my lack of knowledge of solaris though... >> >> - support for initramfs (rather than just plain ramdisks) > > What problem does

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: VMWare (Was: Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris)

2006-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Me? I'm like Rich, I (and my family) need Windows very infrequently -- less > than once a month, easy. So when that does happen, I find it no problem to > just reboot one of my two multi-boot boxes that has Windows on it (a "BestBuy > special" Compaq de

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-23 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/22/06 21:54, Gavin Maltby wrote: On 03/20/06 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FMA looks like it's about 100k/cpu (ERPT_MAX_ERRS * max_ncpu * ERPT_DATA_SZ) And they are all preallocated? Sounds like a bug to me. Yes they are, so that we can fill error reports from any context without

[osol-discuss] Hea.net benchmarks T2000

2006-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
Some nice T2000 benchmarking: http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2006/03/23/niagara-vs-ftpheanetie-showdown/ ;) regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Re: [osol-discuss] Booting Solaris 10 on the Intel Macintoshes

2006-03-23 Thread Rainer Orth
"Roberto J. Dohnert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to purchase one of the newer Macs and I was > wondering if there was any project to get Solaris to > boot on the Intel Macs or if Sun has any plans to > support the machines. You would need EFI support in Solaris/x86 for those machines.

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Darren J Moffat
Peter Buckingham wrote: Hi All, There are a bunch of things that I'd like to see in solaris. Although some of these my be showing my lack of knowledge of solaris though... - support for initramfs (rather than just plain ramdisks) What problem does this solve ? What do you want to use

Re: [osol-discuss] 64bit ncrs driver not available?

2006-03-23 Thread Casper . Dik
>On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:32 pm, James C. McPherson wrote: >> You could try using glm instead. I was involved for a while with the >> effort to port it from sparc. It integrated into snv_28. >> >> 5026812 Need 64bit glm driver support on x86 platform > >Ah, I do remember talk about this driver