Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Brian Feldman wrote: >Ever going to help with my atapi-fd problems? I found examples of the >corruptions, including lots of NULLs... Well, so long as I cannot get my hands on the problem, its real hard to solve it. I'm trying to get ahold of the same LS120 drive here but so far I havn't

Re: make world failure

1999-04-28 Thread Mark Murray
"David O'Brien" wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:19:37AM +0200, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > I just encountered this: > > > > ===> gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc > > makeinfo -I /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I /u3/ src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/cp --no-split

Re: new clock good for unix (FreeBSD)

1999-04-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199904282134.qaa37...@argus.tfs.net>, Jim Bryant writes: >In reply: >> Hi >> >> Just wondering if the new swatch clock has its way into the date command... > >I'd rather that it wouldn't. Swatch is pulling a marketing stunt, >plain and simple. Something to toss in the closet with the

Re: ep0 *UTP*

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Jim Bryant wrote: > > > good question. when were your sources built? i'm running a kernel > > from Thu Apr 8 10:40:17 CDT 1999. > > > > ep0 at 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa > > ep0: aui/bnc[*BNC*] address 00:20:af:d2:e4:ae > > Well, I'd chalk it up to buggy 3com h

-CURRENT told me to panic when it booted, so I did

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
I get a thoroughtly reproducible (in fact, utterly non-un-reproducible) panic on boot of recent -CURRENTs. It did this on a cvsup from maybe 2, 3 days ago, and again with one done ~4pm CDT today. Note: all these messages are hand-copied, this machine isn't in a situation where it's easy to put a

Re: ep0 *UTP*

1999-04-28 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Jim Bryant wrote: > good question. when were your sources built? i'm running a kernel > from Thu Apr 8 10:40:17 CDT 1999. > > ep0 at 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa > ep0: aui/bnc[*BNC*] address 00:20:af:d2:e4:ae Well, I'd chalk it up to buggy 3com h/w myself. Alas I'm still g

I take it back --- Re: buildworld failure - 'pcb_fs' field

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
Oops. I take it back. It worked just fine. I was looking at the wrong xterm! -Matt Matthew Dillon : :This is with the latest cvs tree checked out. For -current

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > > > Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OS

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > : > :> > :> OSPF has been around for a long time. > : > :But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. > > Which means nothing. RIP was designed for a time when networks > were simp

buildworld failure - 'pcb_fs' field

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is with the latest cvs tree checked out. For -current. At a guess I would say that it's related to Luoqi's recent checkin. /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-4.x/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/freebsd-nat.c: In function `fetch_core_registers': /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-4.x/src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/gdb/freebsd-nat.c:119:

Re: ep0 *UTP*

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Btw, why does boot write [*UTP*] ? > The card is working nicely with bnc. > > ep0 at port 0x300-0x30f irq 11 on isa0 > ep0: utp/bnc[*UTP*] address 00:60:08:09:c8:d9 > ep0: interrupting at irq 11 > > device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 11 > > Leif good question. when were your source

Hang during boot with ahc (2940U2W)

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bloom
Here is the dmesg output from a boot -v on my machine. I don't believe that I have ever had the USB ports configured in my kernel. They do have an IRQ allocated in the BIOS though. Jim Bloom bl...@acm.org Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993

Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-28 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > I have three hosts with -current, all with the new ATA in function. > > Booting the same kernel produces different results on all of them wrt > > root file system mounting: > > > > - one reports 'changing root device to wd0s3a' > > - one repor

Re: Progs linked against libstdc++ dead...

1999-04-28 Thread Steve Price
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, David O'Brien wrote: # > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3: Undefined # > symbol "__vt_7filebuf" # # I'm rather tied up until Sunday. So it will be few days unti I can # really take a look at this. Until then, patches gladly accepted. Remember you asked. :-

Re: Progs linked against libstdc++ dead...

1999-04-28 Thread David O'Brien
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3: Undefined > symbol "__vt_7filebuf" I'm rather tied up until Sunday. So it will be few days unti I can really take a look at this. Until then, patches gladly accepted. -- -- David(obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscri

Re: make world failure

1999-04-28 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:19:37AM +0200, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > I just encountered this: > > ===> gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc > makeinfo -I /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I > /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/cp --no-split -I > /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/d

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1999-04-28 Thread Yectli Huerta
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make world failure

1999-04-28 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
I just encountered this: ===> gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc makeinfo -I /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/cp --no-split -I /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc -I /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc /u3/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/doc/../../../../contri

Re: Problems with ahc (2940U2W) and USB

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bloom
Add me to the list of people seeing this problem. I have an ASUS P2B-S with onboard Adaptec 7890. I have been seeing the problem on and off since December of last year. One time it boots and the next time it doesn't. Once the disk is hung, the reset switch or power cycling are the only ways to

Re: Progs linked against libstdc++ dead...

1999-04-28 Thread Manfred Antar
At 03:39 PM 4/28/99 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: Aagh! As of last-night's current (Tuesday), *NO* C++ program that links against libstdc++ works now. All of them come up with this error, and recompilation doesn't help :-( You have done a *FULL* CVSup and `make world'? You have then recopiled an

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I don't think the current approach with %fs is that confusing. :-) You :can view it as an optimization of : : struct "per processor data" { : struct proc *curproc; : ... : } ppd[NCPUS]; : : some_func() : { : ... ppd[MYCPU]->curpr

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Joe Abley
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:34:51PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > And you didn't know that the RIP spec is even older, and was publicly > available via an RFC (the same as OSPF?) But, of course, RIP sucks in many well-known ways. > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, becaus

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:48:56PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > ... > > There might be less confusion with %fs if we simply use it as a > 'cpu number' index and then make all the cpu-dependant variables > standard arrays. i.e. instead if 'struct proc *curproc' we would >

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Scott Michel
"Open" (according to Lenny Kleinrock) meant "available"; thus OSPF was supposed to mean "Available, shortest path first." But, then again, these meanings get changed with time. "Open" is now a codeword for GNU/GPL/intellectual rights unencumbtered software. For OSPF, it was simply a description of

Re: Progs linked against libstdc++ dead...

1999-04-28 Thread David O'Brien
> Aagh! As of last-night's current (Tuesday), *NO* C++ program that > links against libstdc++ works now. All of them come up with this > error, and recompilation doesn't help :-( You have done a *FULL* CVSup and `make world'? You have then recopiled any C++ libs from ports or private sources? --

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Christopher T. Johnson wrote ... > > As Christopher T. Johnson wrote ... > > > > > REGARDLESS! > > > The drive is reporting an error condition and that error is NOT > > > getting back to user land. I've verified the problem with amdump > > > > Oh? Where/what is the error, does the console

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > Because a previous link-state (aka shortest-path-first) routing > protocol had been deployed which was not. >

ep0 *UTP*

1999-04-28 Thread Leif Neland
Btw, why does boot write [*UTP*] ? The card is working nicely with bnc. ep0 at port 0x300-0x30f irq 11 on isa0 ep0: utp/bnc[*UTP*] address 00:60:08:09:c8:d9 ep0: interrupting at irq 11 device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 11 Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubsc

Still no sound

1999-04-28 Thread Leif Neland
I get "no pcm devices configured"; this happened after cvsupping a week or so. (I cvsup every night). The soundcard gets probed as a AudioPCI ESS1370 dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of Californi

Re: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:For parts that don't support arbitrary alignment, you have to copy. :Now, in some of the drivers that I ported to the alpha, I only copied :the first small section of the packet in order to get the IP header :aligned (since failing to do this causes an unaligned access trap in :the IP code). This

PCM

1999-04-28 Thread vortexia
I cvsupped from 3.1-RELEASE today to 4.0-CURRENT and since then PCM sound has been screwed. Im using a crystal sound card, anyone having similar problems? Cheers Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Umm ... OK, I thought you were saying that OSPF and BGP are "open", :whereas RIP v1 and v2 are not. In that context, I wasn't sure what :you meant by "open". If "open" means freely downloadable spec, then :presumably all of the above are open. So never mind :-). : :Jim Shankland :NLynx Systems,

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > > > > > I'm sorry- I missed the front end of this. I've had pretty good luck with > > getting the 8200 to work. What f/w level are you at for the 8200? > > > > -matt > > Matt, it isn't a tape drive problem. Nor is it directly and exabyte problem. > It is a problem where an error from the

Re: Problems with ahc (2940U2W) and USB

1999-04-28 Thread Mike Smith
> With the current sources, there seems to be a problem with the Adaptec > 2940U2W driver when using USB. This isn't likely to be related to the 2940 per se. Check your BIOS settings related to USB; make sure you have it properly turned on and have an interrupt allocated to the USB port. Try tu

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:19:17AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :> I know this is a little late ... but I don't suppose there might be a :> way to lock a TLB entry in place? That would solve the problem too. :> Baring that, %fs is the way to go. :> : :Unfortunately, on the x86, the a

Re: new clock good for unix (FreeBSD)

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Hi > > Just wondering if the new swatch clock has its way into the date command... I'd rather that it wouldn't. Swatch is pulling a marketing stunt, plain and simple. Something to toss in the closet with the pet rock a year from now. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. Because a previous link-state (aka shortest-path-first) routing protocol had been deployed which was not. > But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. Um, no.

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > > > That sounds like a bug. But it could be CAM not understanding that the > > 8200 firmware went to Nowhere-land. If I got a dime for each Exabyte > > lockup.. > > Yep, been there done that. But these drives have been rock solid. It is > not the case of putting in a new, unknown drive and

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Christopher T. Johnson
> As Christopher T. Johnson wrote ... > > > REGARDLESS! > > The drive is reporting an error condition and that error is NOT > > getting back to user land. I've verified the problem with amdump > > Oh? Where/what is the error, does the console tell you? Sorry, no error reported, just th

Re: XFree86 and egcs

1999-04-28 Thread Steve Jorgensen
> In article <199904271932.naa01...@zen.alb.khoral.com>, > Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > I cvsup'ed and installed yesterday morning it's the third > > cvsup I've done since egcs went in, so I know it's working > > ok. Anyway, I decided to update my XFree86 installation, > > and foun

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Christopher T. Johnson wrote ... > REGARDLESS! > The drive is reporting an error condition and that error is NOT > getting back to user land. I've verified the problem with amdump Oh? Where/what is the error, does the console tell you? > amflush and dd. In ALL cases once

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Matthew Dillon wrote ... > The amber LED on exabytes typically means 'drive needs cleaning'. Exabyte > drives should be cleaned once or twice a week depending on how heavily > you use them. If an exabyte drive is not cleaned on a regular basis, the > transfer rate will drop st

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:19:17AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I know this is a little late ... but I don't suppose there might be a > way to lock a TLB entry in place? That would solve the problem too. > Baring that, %fs is the way to go. > Unfortunately, on the x86, the answer i

Re: Broken Linux emulation

1999-04-28 Thread Blaz Zupan
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > After doing a make world today and compiling a new kernel, the Linux > netscape 4.51 does not work anymore. It immediately core dumps: Sigh. Ignore my mail. I failed to follow the first rule of posting: think before you post. I cvsupped between make world a

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Nate Williams
> :> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > :> couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > : > :Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI > :IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I > :believe they are

Broken Linux emulation

1999-04-28 Thread Blaz Zupan
After doing a make world today and compiling a new kernel, the Linux netscape 4.51 does not work anymore. It immediately core dumps: /home/blaz> netscape Illegal instruction (core dumped) /home/blaz> gdb /usr/local/netscape-4.51/communicator-4.51.bin communicator-4.5. core GDB is free software an

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Christopher T. Johnson wrote ... > Some extra information on tape problems: > > FreeBSD neunacht.netgsi.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Apr 22 > 16:50:33 EDT 1999 root@:/m/src/sys/compile/NEUNACHT i386 > > This is SMP machine with scsi only. > > The tape drive is an EXABYTE-8200.

Re: /usr/share/examples/atapi scripts wrong

1999-04-28 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 11:42 am -0700 28/4/99, Doug White wrote: > >The burn* scripts in /usr/share/examples/atapi try to use wormcontrol for >some reason, which obviously doesn't work.[etc] Er, I think it does. It's SCSI/CAM which has lost the worm device, not ATAPI. See also misc/10351. -- Bob Bishop

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Chris Dillon
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. > > Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI > IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not*

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread sthaug
> I consider ISIS dead these days, though I'm sure there are people who > still swear by it. As far as I know, there is *active* development of IS-IS these days, see for instance: "IS-IS Optimized Multipath (ISIS-OMP)", Tony Li, Curtis Villamizar, 02/23/1999, "IS-IS extensions fo

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199904281914.maa08...@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > >:> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it >:> couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. >: >:Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI >:IS-IS routing

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:14:03PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI > :IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I > :believe they are now.) > : > :Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethel

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Shankland
Umm ... OK, I thought you were saying that OSPF and BGP are "open", whereas RIP v1 and v2 are not. In that context, I wasn't sure what you meant by "open". If "open" means freely downloadable spec, then presumably all of the above are open. So never mind :-). Jim Shankland NLynx Systems, Inc.

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it :> couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. : :Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI :IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I :believe they are now.) : :S

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread sthaug
> I can't quite figure why they stuck the word "open" in there, because it > couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. Probably because it was (at the time) in heavy "competition" with the OSI IS-IS routing protocol. Those standards were *not* openly available. (I believe they are now.) Steinar Ha

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:couldn't possibly be more open than RIP. : :> :> OSPF has been around for a long time. : :But RIP is older, and was the first routing scheme. Which means nothing. RIP was designed for a time when networks were simple. It has no multipath capabilities, it can *barely* handl

Re: /usr/share/examples/atapi scripts wrong

1999-04-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Doug White wrote: > Hello ... > > The burn* scripts in /usr/share/examples/atapi try to use wormcontrol for > some reason, which obviously doesn't work. Should we just dump them, or > does someone have one that uses mkisofs/cdrecord that would be > appropriate? What planet are you from

/usr/share/examples/atapi scripts wrong

1999-04-28 Thread Doug White
Hello ... The burn* scripts in /usr/share/examples/atapi try to use wormcontrol for some reason, which obviously doesn't work. Should we just dump them, or does someone have one that uses mkisofs/cdrecord that would be appropriate? Doug White Internet: dwh...@resn

Re: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes

1999-04-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon > had to walk into mine and say: > > > (fanfair!) > > (Darth Vader's imperial march theme) > > > NFS Patch #8 for -current is now available. This patch fixes serious

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Matthew Dillon writes: > : > :> Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior > :> even on 'simple' networks. It is effectively an open protocol, > :> like BGP. > : > :Matt, can you clarify what you mean by "open" here? I know it

new clock good for unix (FreeBSD)

1999-04-28 Thread Lauri Laupmaa
Hi Just wondering if the new swatch clock has its way into the date command... _ Lauri Laupmaa ...speaking for myself only... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago

1999-04-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > > : Someone submitted a patch that checked to see if the BIOS returned a > > > : value > 64M, and if so to 'accept' it's value for the memory, since it's > > > : more likely to be correct. I'd like to apply it to -current, but I'm > > > : not sure of

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon writes: : :> Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior :> even on 'simple' networks. It is effectively an open protocol, :> like BGP. : :Matt, can you clarify what you mean by "open" here? I know it's :what the "O" in OSPF stands for, but in what way are OSP

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Christopher T. Johnson
Matthew, Thanks I should have been more clear. The amber LED on 8205s and 8505s and any of the half hight drives blink when they need cleaning. This is the original 8200 full hight drives. They have no cleaning indicator. The drive is cleaned every monday before the amflush. We use exabyte 8m

RE: worldstone improvement...

1999-04-28 Thread Alok K. Dhir
Are these changes going to be committed to -stable? Tx > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org]on Behalf Of Tamiji Homma > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 1:16 PM > To: p...@critter.freebsd.dk > Cc: curr...@freebsd.org > S

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
I know this is a little late ... but I don't suppose there might be a way to lock a TLB entry in place? That would solve the problem too. Baring that, %fs is the way to go. I am happily compiling up a new SMP kernel as we speak :-). -Matt

Re: worldstone improvement...

1999-04-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Tamiji Homma wrote: > > My 2 x 233MHz PPro has improved make world time by about 100 seconds > > out of 5000s = 2 % > > My dual 200MHz PPro worldstone also improved almost 3 minutes > (173 seconds) after Luoqi's SMP change. Yep, I see the same here, good job!! -Søren To Unsubscribe: s

Re: -current's routing code...

1999-04-28 Thread Jos Backus
Fwiw: The patch below unbreaks -current for me. [Luoqi Chen's message <199904270645.caa21...@lor.watermarkgroup.com> below] This broke routing, part of the route domain init needs to be done after all domains are attached. It happened that the new kernel I just made listed routedomain before ine

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199904281625.maa05...@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: > > >> >In this %fs approach, per-processor private pages are no longer mapped at > >> >identical virtual address for each cpu, instead a new segment descriptor > >> >(%f

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
The amber LED on exabytes typically means 'drive needs cleaning'. Exabyte drives should be cleaned once or twice a week depending on how heavily you use them. If an exabyte drive is not cleaned on a regular basis, the transfer rate will drop steadily as the drive is forced to rewr

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199904281625.maa05...@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: >> >In this %fs approach, per-processor private pages are no longer mapped at >> >identical virtual address for each cpu, instead a new segment descriptor >> >(%fs) >> >is setup to access per-cpu global variables like c

Re: worldstone improvement...

1999-04-28 Thread Tamiji Homma
> My 2 x 233MHz PPro has improved make world time by about 100 seconds > out of 5000s = 2 % My dual 200MHz PPro worldstone also improved almost 3 minutes (173 seconds) after Luoqi's SMP change. I think it's good improvement. Tammy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubs

Re: Time Driftine Really Fast

1999-04-28 Thread Thomas Dean
We had this discussion last September, along with Mike Smith. We discussed using the calibration stuff in config, and not to use CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP. It was noted the 8254 was unstable and TSC could not be used to improve it. As a result of the conversation, I wound up with CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBR

RTC extmem - was: Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago

1999-04-28 Thread Tony Overfield
>>[regarding RTC vs. BIOS selection algorithm] >I don't think this is complete, because I think (don't know) that many >older BIOS's only reported up to 64M of memory, so if you had more than >64M in the box it didn't report it. The RTC extmem cannot "report" >64 MB either. In fact, the RTC extme

Re: Further on tape & CAM problems

1999-04-28 Thread Christopher T. Johnson
Some extra information on tape problems: FreeBSD neunacht.netgsi.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Apr 22 16:50:33 EDT 1999 root@:/m/src/sys/compile/NEUNACHT i386 This is SMP machine with scsi only. The tape drive is an EXABYTE-8200. When doing tape IO that lasts for an extend period

Re: worldstone improvement...

1999-04-28 Thread Steve Kargl
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > My 2 x 233MHz PPro has improved make world time by about 100 seconds > out of 5000s = 2 % > > Not bad... > > Poul-Henning > I assume your "benchmarking" the recent changes Luoqi made to SMP? -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsu

worldstone improvement...

1999-04-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
My 2 x 233MHz PPro has improved make world time by about 100 seconds out of 5000s = 2 % Not bad... Poul-Henning To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Time Driftine Really Fast

1999-04-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199904281602.jaa17...@ix.netcom.com>, Thomas Dean writes: >I am running 4.0-current SMP of Apr 21 16:51:36 1999. > >Time appears to be drifting very fast, ~300 sec in 8 hours. dmesg and config >attached at the end. I am using CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION. Try to remove that option, if yo

Re: HEADS UP! to commit SMP vmspace sharing patches

1999-04-28 Thread Luoqi Chen
> In message <199904272349.taa28...@lor.watermarkgroup.com>, Luoqi Chen writes: > >I'm about to commit the SMP vmspace sharing patch (the %fs approach). All > >kernel modules will need to be recompiled. Recompilation is not neccessary > >for user land applications including ps, libkvm and friends.

Time Driftine Really Fast

1999-04-28 Thread Thomas Dean
I am running 4.0-current SMP of Apr 21 16:51:36 1999. Time appears to be drifting very fast, ~300 sec in 8 hours. dmesg and config attached at the end. I am using CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION. On 27 Apr at about 2000, the system appeared to freeze for several seconds, while lightly loaded, one user

Re: Problems with ahc (2940U2W) and USB

1999-04-28 Thread Rick Whitesel
Hi: I am seeing the same thing on a ASUS P2B with a Adaptec 2940?? controller. Rick - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:38 AM Subject: Problems with ahc (2940U2W) and USB With the current sources, there seems to be a problem with the Adaptec 2940U2W d

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Shankland
Matthew Dillon writes: > Given the choice between OSPF and RIP1/2, OSPF is far superior > even on 'simple' networks. It is effectively an open protocol, > like BGP. Matt, can you clarify what you mean by "open" here? I know it's what the "O" in OSPF stands for, but in what way are OSPF and BGP

Progs linked against libstdc++ dead...

1999-04-28 Thread Keith Walker
Aagh! As of last-night's current (Tuesday), *NO* C++ program that links against libstdc++ works now. All of them come up with this error, and recompilation doesn't help :-( On my machine, this killed the entire KDE system. All of those programs come up with the error: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /u

Re: cvsup.au.freebsd.org

1999-04-28 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 12:48:58AM +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > >Does anyone know what has happened to cvsup.au.freebsd.org? I think a disk has died. I'm on leave for a couple of weeks, and haven't had a chance to go into work to check up on it properly. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to major

Problems with ahc (2940U2W) and USB

1999-04-28 Thread erik
With the current sources, there seems to be a problem with the Adaptec 2940U2W driver when using USB. Whenever I try to boot a kernel with the USB driver, the boot process gets to the "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle" and stops. If I compile a kernel with an nearly identical config,

cvsup.au.freebsd.org

1999-04-28 Thread Mark Newton
Does anyone know what has happened to cvsup.au.freebsd.org? - mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes

1999-04-28 Thread paul
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Paul [mailto:wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu] > Sent: 28 April 1999 14:27 > To: dil...@apollo.backplane.com > Cc: hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes > > > Of all the gin joints in all t

Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago

1999-04-28 Thread Nate Williams
> > : Someone submitted a patch that checked to see if the BIOS returned a > > : value > 64M, and if so to 'accept' it's value for the memory, since it's > > : more likely to be correct. I'd like to apply it to -current, but I'm > > : not sure of the political ramifications > > > > I think th

Re: NFS Patch #8 for current available - new TCP fixes

1999-04-28 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: > (fanfair!) (Darth Vader's imperial march theme) > NFS Patch #8 for -current is now available. This patch fixes serious bugs > w/ NFS/TCP. Probably not *all* the failure

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Dennis Glatting
> GateD is *very* unfriendly. It is user-unfriendly and it is > OSS-unfriendly. ... > ... Also, the older, more OSS friendly versions of gated have too > many bugs to be useable as a base. The OSPF implementation in it > wasn't really fixed until late last year. > I can vouch for that... a

Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-28 Thread Thomas Seidmann
Soren Schmidt wrote: > Hmm, could you mail me the output of fdisk & disklabel from those tree > machines, with indication of how they behave ?? > > I'm unable to reproduce those errors here, but this might bring the > details I need to figure it out... Certainly. First the working machine (report

vmstat -m very confused.

1999-04-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Is it just me, or is vmstat -m getting very confused in the last few days? julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Our routed - Vern says it's old and buggy.

1999-04-28 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Um, can we get back to the subject at hand PLEASE? Who among you is > going to import the new routed? Garrett doesn't have testing > facilities for RIP, so it has to be someone else. Since Chuck also > appears to have boundless energy for this top

Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
> Hi, > I have three hosts with -current, all with the new ATA in function. > Booting the same kernel produces different results on all of them wrt > root file system mounting: > > - one reports 'changing root device to wd0s3a' > - one reports 'changing root device to wd0s3a' followed by 'changing

New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

1999-04-28 Thread Thomas Seidmann
Hi, In the great new ATA device driver framework (thanks Soren) there seems to be a problem reported before by Stephen: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > > On my machine, a kernel newer than one built on the 22nd will not complete > booting, panicing about not being a

Re: Confirmation for subscribe freebsd-current

1999-04-28 Thread Bjorn Robertsson
auth 9b0472d2 subscribe freebsd-current bjo...@transint.is To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

blackbox doesn't work after recent changes in current

1999-04-28 Thread Vallo Kallaste
Hello ! Blackbox doesn't work after recent changes in current, it complains: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3: Undefined symbol "__vt_7filebuf" Unfortunately it doesn't compile also, autoconf(?) complains about C++ compilator and thinks that it cannot generate executables. --

Patch affecting vnode identification and name cache - please test

1999-04-28 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
This small patch doesn't fix any major bugs (mostly the XXX in the comment before cache_purge in kern/vfs_cache.c), but should be a step towards allowing a dynamically sized vnode cache to be used. This is done by eliminating the reliance on a vnode pointer/v_id pair as a unique identification fo

Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago

1999-04-28 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199904272310.raa06...@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: > : Someone submitted a patch that checked to see if the BIOS returned a > : value > 64M, and if so to 'accept' it's value for the memory, since it's > : more likely to be correct. I'd li