Re: grabbing console (syscons) in kernel

2011-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 12/12/2011 00:06 Alexander Yerenkow said the following: > > > 2011/12/11 Andriy Gapon mailto:a...@freebsd.org>> > > > There are a few cases when the kernel needs to interact with a user via > syscons. > This is the cases where the kernel not only spews some output but also > expect

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS? ==> works

2011-12-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
FWIW, it should be easy to ship a config file for that soekris, which just does: include GENERIC device mptable It may be worthwhile at least considering this (along with a couple of comments explaining why the default kernel doesn't work on the soekris board) for 9.0. Question: can you load it

[head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
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[head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-12 03:40:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-12 03:40:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2011-12-12 03:40:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-12 03:40:25 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-12 03:40:25 - /usr/bin/c

[head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
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Re: Burning CDs and DVDs on SATA drive in FreeBSD 9.0

2011-12-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
--- On Sat, 12/10/11, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > I'm not sure what CAM IOCTL number change others > are > > > referring to but > > > you certainly need to rebuild libcam consumers > after > > > r225950, which > > > was merged to stable/9 in r226067 on October 6 > 2011. > > > Marius   > > Than

[head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-11 22:10:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-11 22:10:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2011-12-11 22:10:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-11 22:10:24 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-11 22:10:24 - /usr/bin/c

Re: grabbing console (syscons) in kernel

2011-12-11 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
2011/12/11 Andriy Gapon > > There are a few cases when the kernel needs to interact with a user via > syscons. > This is the cases where the kernel not only spews some output but also > expects > some input. Some examples are: > - asking for a root filesystem specification > - entering ddb > - a

grabbing console (syscons) in kernel

2011-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
There are a few cases when the kernel needs to interact with a user via syscons. This is the cases where the kernel not only spews some output but also expects some input. Some examples are: - asking for a root filesystem specification - entering ddb - asking to press a key for reboot In this ca

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS?

2011-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/12/2011 23:12 Lev Serebryakov said the following: > Hello, Andriy. > You wrote 11 декабря 2011 г., 23:12:34: > Is it true? Is it possible to have FreeBSD/amd64 without ACPI? >>> It seems, that "device mptable" in kernel config helps. >>> Why is it not in GENERIC kernel? >> Just a g

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS?

2011-12-11 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Andriy. You wrote 11 декабря 2011 г., 23:12:34: >>> Is it true? Is it possible to have FreeBSD/amd64 without ACPI? >> It seems, that "device mptable" in kernel config helps. >> Why is it not in GENERIC kernel? > Just a guess, maybe because GENERIC kernel is for "generic" hardware. Oh

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS?

2011-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 11, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 11/12/2011 11:27 Lev Serebryakov said the following: >> Hello, Freebsd-current. >> You wrote 9 декабря 2011 г., 14:10:18: >> >>> Soekris ("famous" developer of small x86-compatible appliance-like >>> hardware) released net6501 some time ago

Re: calling all fs experts

2011-12-11 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Dom 11/12/11, Kostik Belousov ha scritto: > > If you wanted to get responses from experts only, sorry in > advance. > I am no fs expert but just thought I'd mention some things based on my playing with the BSD ext2fs ... > The fs (AKA UFS) uses clustering provided by the block > cache. T

[head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:27 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:27 - /usr/bin

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS?

2011-12-11 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 11/12/2011 11:27 Lev Serebryakov said the following: > Hello, Freebsd-current. > You wrote 9 декабря 2011 г., 14:10:18: > >> Soekris ("famous" developer of small x86-compatible appliance-like >> hardware) released net6501 some time ago, which is based on Atom (E6xx) >> CPU. >> It seems, tha

[head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:21 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-11 16:30:21 - /usr/bin/c

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Chris Rees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2011 14:30, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, wrote: >> >>> I use CVS (or rather csup) to keep the base system up to date. >>> I would be perfectly okay with using a different utility - >>> however, I would strongly

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 12/11/11 08:39, Julian H. Stacey wrote: "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: Hi Daniel; --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Daniel Eischen wrote: ... I would love to mirror the SVN repo in the same way and have an 'svn' in base, or at least something that could replace CVS in the above scenario. I have to say I a

Re: calling all fs experts

2011-12-11 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:42:01PM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Hello, > > i have a question for fs wizards. > > suppose i can persuade modern spinning disk to do "large" reads (say > 512K to 1M) at a time. also, suppose file system on such modern > spinning drive is used to store large files

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS? ==> works

2011-12-11 Thread Denis Fortin
On 2011-12-09 10:10:18, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Soekris ("famous" developer of small x86-compatible appliance-like > hardware) released *net6501* some time ago, which is based on Atom (E6xx) > CPU. It seems, that 64-bit version of Linux could run on it without problems. > But FreeBSD/amd64 can

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- Dom 11/12/11, Julian H. Stacey ha scritto: ... > > I have to say I am surprised by all the people that > > still use CVS (for their own good reasons). > > > > It still would be helpful if cvs users could evaluate > > OpenCVS: it's been experimental for ages now. It does > > seem to have some

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote: > Hi Daniel; > > --- On Sat, 12/3/11, Daniel Eischen wrote: > ... > > > > I would love to mirror the SVN repo in the same way > > and have an 'svn' in base, or at least something that > > could replace CVS in the above scenario. > > > > I have to say I am surprised by

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, wrote: > > > I use CVS (or rather csup) to keep the base system up to date. I would > > be perfectly okay with using a different utility - however, I would > > strongly prefer that this utility was included in the base system. > > CVS != csup. > > I wonder how

Re: CVS removal from the base

2011-12-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/02/2011 04:35, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > I think you're missing the point a little. > > > > The point is, you have to keep in mind how comfortable people feel > > about things, and progress sometimes makes people uncomfortable. I > > think you should leave these changes ba

[head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:33 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:33 - /usr/bin

Re: calling all fs experts

2011-12-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Maksim Yevmenkin Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Hello, > > i have a question for fs wizards. There is a list for them: freebsd...@freebsd.org Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumu

[head tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for i386/i386 TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:25 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-11 10:50:25 - /usr/bin/c

Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 11, 2011, at 12:09 AM, FreeBSD Tinderbox wrote: > TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on > freebsd-current.sentex.ca > TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 > TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:00 - cleaning the object tree > TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:3

Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on machine without ACPI BIOS?

2011-12-11 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Freebsd-current. You wrote 9 декабря 2011 г., 14:10:18: > Soekris ("famous" developer of small x86-compatible appliance-like > hardware) released net6501 some time ago, which is based on Atom (E6xx) > CPU. > It seems, that 64-bit version of Linux could run on it without > problems. >

Re: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/AMD64 (CLANG): lang/gcc46 fails to build

2011-12-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/11/11 00:50, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > [-questions to bcc] > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> On 12/07/11 07:11, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 05:56:31AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: config.status: creating ada/Makefile config.status: creating auto-host.h

Re: How to update /usr/src/ using SVN and "make update"?

2011-12-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/11/11 01:11, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> On 12/10/11 14:51, Chuck Burns wrote: >>> On Saturday, December 10, 2011 7:35:27 AM Chuck Burns wrote: Here is quick, hackish patch to allow your make update to work, it appears that the Makefile

[head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-12-11 Thread FreeBSD Tinderbox
TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:00 - tinderbox 2.8 running on freebsd-current.sentex.ca TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:00 - starting HEAD tinderbox run for amd64/amd64 TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:00 - cleaning the object tree TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:31 - cvsupping the source tree TB --- 2011-12-11 05:20:31 - /usr/bin