Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Glenn Gombert
I would be happy to try and revise it as well, I think that many people would find booting diskless kernels (for debugging & development purposes) quite useful as well :) At 04:08 PM 3/1/2002 -0800, you wrote: >There is a 'diskless' manual page, /usr/src/share/man/man8/diskless.8. >It is

Re: extended attribute files sizes

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Galen Sampson wrote: > I am curious about the file sizes of the backing files for extend > attributes. I have compiled a custom kernel that has both extended > attribute support and acl support. I can sucessfully add and remove > acls for files. I am quite impressed. I us

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Glenn Gombert
I would be happy to help with this, I will revise a section at a time in Developers Handbook on "Kernel Debugging" and then post it for review. I hope it helps others (and can save some precious time of other busy folks as well), I will try and have a section done by the end of next week :) A

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
There is a 'diskless' manual page, /usr/src/share/man/man8/diskless.8. It is somewhat out of date and it would be nice if it had a dhcpd.conf example. It would be great if someone did a major rewrite of it. -Matt

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Glenn Gombert wrote: >I have spent several months figuring how to do diskless mounts for test > kernels, run debuggers from serial terminals and do remote kernel debugging > with gdb, and spent lots and lots of time doing is as well. Some 'up to > date' "How To's" are re

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Glenn Gombert wrote: >I have spent several months figuring how to do diskless mounts for > test kernels, run debuggers from serial terminals and do remote kernel > debugging with gdb, and spent lots and lots of time doing is as well. > Some 'up to date' "How To's" are rea

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-03-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:00:51PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > The use of an MFS /var should also be settable. Otherwise installing > ports(packages) is just a total PITA. Below is a patch I'd like to commit that may solve this problem in most cases. This patch does the following: - Makes cr

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Glenn Gombert
I have spent several months figuring how to do diskless mounts for test kernels, run debuggers from serial terminals and do remote kernel debugging with gdb, and spent lots and lots of time doing is as well. Some 'up to date' "How To's" are really needed to support this kind of debugging and te

Re: more -current testers

2002-03-01 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:56:05AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > I understand that we're getting to that stage where we need more > > -current testers. > > > > We all agree that the optimal thing would be to have hordes of very > > sophisticated users who can debug p

Re: usb product identified as ugen

2002-03-01 Thread Riccardo Torrini
On 28-Feb-2002 (19:33:04/GMT) Riccardo Torrini wrote: > port 2 addr 2: full speed, power 400 mA, config 1, \ > product 0x07d1(0x07d1), ScanLogic(0x04ce), rev 1.05 >ugen0 [...] > port 2 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, \ > USB to IDE(0x0002), USB to IDE(0x04ce),

Re: Patch for critical_enter()/critical_exit() & interrupt assem

2002-03-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think the right thing to do is to commit the cred changes, > and stabilize them, if there's even a problem, as you expect > from your comments about "dangerous". > John already committed a majority of all the cred changes. I never saw a commit mess

Re: Patch for critical_enter()/critical_exit() & interrupt assem

2002-03-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, David Greenman wrote: > >>:John has been consistently chugging along on the job all the way. > >>:At this point in time, until he is officially unseated John is our > >>:designated SMPng architect and his word is pretty final. > >>: > >>:-- > >>:Poul-Henning Kamp | U

Re: Patch for critical_enter()/critical_exit() & interrupt assem

2002-03-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: > My patches have been tested, they work, and they ARE going to > be committed as soon as I am able to do so. "Tut, tut, looks like rain!" -- Winnie the Pooh; A. A. Milne If you guys spent as much energy documenting your designs as yo

Re: -current broken in lukemftpd

2002-03-01 Thread David Wolfskill
>From: Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:07:48 +0100 >/flat/src/libexec/lukemftpd/../../contrib/lukemftpd/src/extern.h:324: size of ar >ray `remotehost' has non-integer type >/flat/src/libexec/lukemftpd/../../contrib/lukemftpd/src/extern.h:327: syntax err >or before

Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches

2002-03-01 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Thomas Quinot: > is one known pending issue with this code: on *some* machines, > patched kernels hang at boot time, immediately after registering Thomas knows it already but I'd to mention that one of these machines is a dual PIII/800 running 4.4-STABLE/SMP. I haven't tried the patc

-current broken in lukemftpd

2002-03-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
/flat/src/libexec/lukemftpd/../../contrib/lukemftpd/src/extern.h:324: size of ar ray `remotehost' has non-integer type /flat/src/libexec/lukemftpd/../../contrib/lukemftpd/src/extern.h:327: syntax err or before `transflag' /flat/src/libexec/lukemftpd/../../contrib/lukemftpd/src/extern.h:327: warni

Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches

2002-03-01 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Max Khon wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:58:00PM +0100, S?ren Schmidt wrote: > > > > > Hmm, why do we need to add new layers and loss of functionality > > > > to the ATAPI devices ? > > > > > > Many many many people would like to be able to use cdrecord to burn data > > > to cd's so

Too big egos?

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Parra
I've been following the flame between John and Matt, and the one about P4 some days ago. Matt, you're an excellent coder, I've been following your work since the Amiga days with DICE. Same to you John, your work on SMPng is excellent. Do you guys want to know what the problem is? There's a TOTAL

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project -- What I have so far...

2002-03-01 Thread Andrea Campi
> Let's take another example. The REQUIREMENT line in a script cannot be > made conditional. It requires a modification of rcorder(8) to do so. > So, if one of NetBSD's services has a requirement that we don't have, it > automatically means we need two separate scripts with different > REQUIREMENT

Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches

2002-03-01 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:58:00PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > Hmm, why do we need to add new layers and loss of functionality > > > to the ATAPI devices ? > > > > Many many many people would like to be able to use cdrecord to burn data > > to cd's so that all the front-ends to