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Today's Topics:
1. Logical CPUs cannot be disabled via W3520 (Garrett Cooper)
2. Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting (Doug Barton)
3. HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2010 (Daniel Gerzo)
4. Looking for a mentor (Guillermo Amaral)
5. Re: Looking for a mentor (Lars Engels)
6. /var/named/etc/namedb/master not empty when doing `make
delete-old` (Alexander Best)
7. Re: /var/named/etc/namedb/master not empty when doing `make
delete-old` (Alexander Best)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:40:17 -0700
From: Garrett Cooper <yane...@gmail.com>
Subject: Logical CPUs cannot be disabled via W3520
To: John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd...@freebsd.org>
Message-ID:
<7d6fde3d1003211540n30a...@mail.gmail.com>
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Someone on the forums [1] noticed that machdep.hlt_logical_cpus
was unavailable on their system, and I did some poking around and
noticed that it was as well. Should SMT logical CPUs be disable(-able)
via machdep.hlt_logical_cpus as well or is it just classic HTT based
chips?
Thanks,
-Garrett
$ sysctl machdep.
machdep.acpi_timer_freq: 3579545
machdep.enable_panic_key: 0
machdep.adjkerntz: 25200
machdep.wall_cmos_clock: 1
machdep.disable_rtc_set: 0
machdep.acpi_root: 1029056
machdep.disable_mtrrs: 0
machdep.idle: acpi
machdep.idle_available: spin, mwait, mwait_hlt, hlt, acpi,
machdep.hlt_cpus: 0
machdep.prot_fault_translation: 0
machdep.panic_on_nmi: 1
machdep.kdb_on_nmi: 1
machdep.tsc_freq: 2694121808
machdep.i8254_freq: 1193182
$ sysctl hw.machine hw.model
hw.machine: amd64
hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz
dmesg snippet:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3520 @ 2.67GHz (2694.12-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106a5 Family = 6 Model = 1a Stepping = 5
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x9ce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT>
AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 12884901888 (12288 MB)
avail memory = 12379992064 (11806 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <091109 APIC2100>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2
cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3
cpu4 (AP): APIC ID: 4
cpu5 (AP): APIC ID: 5
cpu6 (AP): APIC ID: 6
cpu7 (AP): APIC ID: 7
[1] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12527
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:20:26 -0700
From: Doug Barton <do...@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: nroff -man, .An Aq formatting
To: Dominic Fandrey <kami...@bsdforen.de>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BA6C5DA...@FreeBSD.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
On 03/21/10 01:24, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> It has come to my attention that whereas with LANG=C "nroff -man"
> formats ".An name Aq email" as "name <email>", it uses different
> characters with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 "name ⟨email⟩". These characters
> are appropriate, but a lot of unicode fonts don't seem to have them.
>
> Or else my terminal (rxvt-unicode) has trouble displaying them.
>
> Does anybody know a workaround for this?
AFAIK our standard is -mdoc, not -man. Is there a specific purpose for
which you need -man? And if not does the problem exist with -mdoc?
You might also want to take this up on freebsd-doc.
hth,
Doug
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:06:31 +0100
From: Daniel Gerzo <dan...@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2010
To: cur...@freebsd.org, sta...@freebsd.org, hac...@freebsd.org,
ques...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <4BA6D0A7...@FreeBSD.org>
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Dear all,
I would like to remind you that the next round of status reports
covering the first quarter of 2010 is due on April 15th, 2010. This
initiative is very welcome in our community. Therefore, I would like to
ask you to submit your status reports as soon as possible, so that we
can compile the report on time.
There is a lot of projects which are currently being worked on, so do
not hesitate and write us a few lines - a short description about what
you are working on, what are your plans and goals, so we can inform our
community about your great work! Check out the reports from past to get
some inspiration of what your submission should look like.
If you know about a project that should be included in the status
report, please let us know as well, so we can poke the responsible
people to provide us with something useful. Updates to submissions from
the last report are welcome too.
Note that the submissions are accepted from anyone involved with the
FreeBSD community, you do not have to be a FreeBSD committer.
Submissions about anything related to FreeBSD are very welcome!
Please email us the filled-in XML template to be found at
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sample.xml to
mon...@FreeBSD.org, or alternatively use our web based form located at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/monthly.cgi.
For more information, please visit http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/.
We are looking forward to see your submissions!
--
S pozdravom / Best regards
Daniel Gerzo, FreeBSD committer
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:33:04 -0700
From: Guillermo Amaral <g...@maral.me>
Subject: Looking for a mentor
To: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID:
<b99329c71003212133k686...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi FreeBSDers,
I'm a C and C++ developer and I am looking for anybody would be
willing to help me get started in the FreeBSD development community.
:D
I'm trying to get more experience in both kernel and user-land
development on FreeBSD. I won't take much of your time, I really need
somebody to assign stuff to me and give me a few hints when I get
lost. It would be awesome if we can start from simple tasks and move
up to other more complex tasks so I can get a feel of how much time I
can dedicate to this on a week without loosing my job. LOL
I have been looking for a mentor in FreeBSD for a little while by
asking around but I think I need to get a few more eye balls so I can
really get into the project on the development side and not just on
the publicity side as I have been doing so far.
Thanks in advance ;)
--
gamaral
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:19:28 +0100
From: Lars Engels <l...@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for a mentor
To: Guillermo Amaral <g...@maral.me>
Cc: freebsd...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20100322101...@e.0x20.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:33:04PM -0700, Guillermo Amaral wrote:
> Hi FreeBSDers,
>
> I'm a C and C++ developer and I am looking for anybody would be
> willing to help me get started in the FreeBSD development community.
> :D
>
> I'm trying to get more experience in both kernel and user-land
> development on FreeBSD. I won't take much of your time, I really need
> somebody to assign stuff to me and give me a few hints when I get
> lost. It would be awesome if we can start from simple tasks and move
> up to other more complex tasks so I can get a feel of how much time I
> can dedicate to this on a week without loosing my job. LOL
>
> I have been looking for a mentor in FreeBSD for a little while by
> asking around but I think I need to get a few more eye balls so I can
> really get into the project on the development side and not just on
> the publicity side as I have been doing so far.
>
> Thanks in advance ;)
Guillermo,
please take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ideas.html
there are some project Ideas together with mentors who can get you into
details.
Lars
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:07:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Alexander Best <alexb...@wwu.de>
Subject: /var/named/etc/namedb/master not empty when doing `make
delete-old`
To: <freebsd...@FreeBSD.org>
Message-ID:
<permail-201003221107578...@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
hi there,
with MK_BIND_ETC and MK_BIND set to 'no' in src.conf,
var/named/etc/namedb/master should get deleted yet the directory still
contains some files. that's why i'm getting
rmdir: /var/named/etc/namedb/master: Directory not empty
during `make delete-old`. does the attached patch look ok? i also added
var/named/etc/namedb/working to be deleted.
--
Alexander Best
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Index: OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
===================================================================
--- OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc (revision 205390)
+++ OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc (working copy)
@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@
.endif
.if ${MK_BIND_ETC} == no || ${MK_BIND} == no
+OLD_FILES+=var/named/etc/namedb/master/empty.db
+OLD_FILES+=var/named/etc/namedb/master/localhost-forward.db
+OLD_FILES+=var/named/etc/namedb/master/localhost-reverse.db
OLD_FILES+=var/named/etc/namedb/PROTO.localhost-v6.rev
OLD_FILES+=var/named/etc/namedb/PROTO.localhost.rev
OLD_FILES+=var/named/etc/namedb/make-localhost
@@ -321,6 +324,7 @@
OLD_DIRS+=var/named/etc/namedb/slave
OLD_DIRS+=var/named/etc/namedb/master
OLD_DIRS+=var/named/etc/namedb/dynamic
+OLD_DIRS+=var/named/etc/namedb/working
#OLD_DIRS+=var/named/etc/namedb
#OLD_DIRS+=var/named/etc
.endif
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:15:58 +0100 (CET)
From: Alexander Best <alexb...@wwu.de>
Subject: Re: /var/named/etc/namedb/master not empty when doing `make
delete-old`
To: <freebsd...@FreeBSD.org>
Message-ID:
<permail-201003221115588...@message-id.uni-muenster.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
sorry that should have been "...with MK_BIND_ETC or MK_BIND...".
--
Alexander Best
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