519 lines
21 KiB
Plaintext
519 lines
21 KiB
Plaintext
From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
|
|
To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
|
|
Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
|
|
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 11:13:16 EDT
|
|
Subject: Linux-Development Digest #259
|
|
|
|
Linux-Development Digest #259, Volume #2 Mon, 3 Oct 94 11:13:16 EDT
|
|
|
|
Contents:
|
|
Re: Report on gcc with P5 optimizations (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
|
|
Re: ext2fs vs. Berkeley FFS (Bill Broadley)
|
|
VESA and SVGAlib? (Andy Bailey)
|
|
Re: Need MOTIF Library Clone (Alexandre Naaman)
|
|
Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development (David Holland)
|
|
Re: Linux Device Driver info needed (Rob Janssen)
|
|
Re: Bug in MSDOS fs ? (Bruno Haible)
|
|
ifmail25 trap.c (Champ Clark)
|
|
Re: [DOSEMU] Running dosemu disables serial port!! (Byron A Jeff)
|
|
Re: What GUI to write for? (Jinwoo Shin)
|
|
Re: What GUI to write for? (Hugh Strong)
|
|
Re: An idea: Weighting the cache per device (Michael Faurot)
|
|
Re: IBM Token Ring Support? (Robert Kroes)
|
|
Which kernel suports two ethernet cards ? (-- Mascaraque --)
|
|
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: eric@pandora.Las-Vegas.NV.US (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
|
|
Subject: Re: Report on gcc with P5 optimizations
|
|
Date: 2 Oct 1994 16:55:09 GMT
|
|
|
|
Erann Gat (gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
|
|
: FWIW, FYI, ETC:
|
|
|
|
: Several people asked me to report my experiences using gcc-2.5.8 with
|
|
: pentium optimizations. I got the version from sunsite, which appears
|
|
: to be slightly different from the version from intel. (For one thing,
|
|
: the intel version claims to be revision 2.4.0.) It compiled without a
|
|
: hitch, and the kernel recompiled OK using -O2 but not -O4. This is
|
|
: consistent with earlier reports. Bootup dies during delay loop
|
|
: calibration.
|
|
|
|
That's true for pentium machines, my 486 did it just fine. I think it has
|
|
something to do with the pentium's dual execution units. FWIW, -O4 worked
|
|
fine on my machine except for TCP/IP, which wouldn't work in at least some
|
|
cases.
|
|
|
|
-O3 however, worked fine.
|
|
|
|
: Unlike earlier reports, I perceive no performance change using the new
|
|
: compiler. However, much of what I am doing is memory-intensive, and so
|
|
: I would not expect to see much speedup.
|
|
|
|
I see about a 3% speed difference in most cases.
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: broadley@turing.ucdavis.edu (Bill Broadley)
|
|
Subject: Re: ext2fs vs. Berkeley FFS
|
|
Date: 2 Oct 1994 22:44:49 GMT
|
|
|
|
|
|
I'd be interested in any documentation for the EXT2 based file system
|
|
of linux. FFS papers are easy to find.
|
|
|
|
It would seem that with increasingly intelligent scsi drives, and
|
|
increasingly large on disk caches. (1MB aren't uncommon) that
|
|
it isn't as necessary to know the hardware details of a drive
|
|
because they are hidden from you by onboard cache policies, variable
|
|
recording rates etc.
|
|
|
|
Back when drives has no cache using the geometry of a drive was a big
|
|
speed win, but I suspect it's less so today.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
Bill Broadley Broadley@math.ucdavis.edu UCD Math Sys-Admin
|
|
Linux is great. http://ucdmath.ucdavis.edu/~broadley PGP-ok
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Subject: VESA and SVGAlib?
|
|
From: bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu (Andy Bailey)
|
|
Date: 2 Oct 94 11:42:52 EDT
|
|
|
|
I have what might be a dumb question, about SVGAlib and video modes. I don't
|
|
know diddly about programming graphics drivers, but here goes.
|
|
With most DOS applications, namely graphics viewers, instead of specifying
|
|
the drive specific to my card, I simply use the VESA driver, and voila, all my
|
|
cardsmodes are recognized. Would this be possible for SVGAlib? I have overheard
|
|
bits of conversation among Linux developers about avoiding making BIOS calls (
|
|
I guess to ensure portability to other processors). Is the case the same here?
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: naaman@info.polymtl.ca (Alexandre Naaman)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
|
|
Subject: Re: Need MOTIF Library Clone
|
|
Date: 30 Sep 1994 21:50:22 GMT
|
|
|
|
C.W. Southern (cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu) wrote:
|
|
: I am looking for MOTIF libraries. I don't need MOTIF, just the libraries.
|
|
: I once saw that someone metion that there where some MOTIF Library clones
|
|
: out there. Does anyone know about this? Can anyone help.
|
|
|
|
There is a MOTIF clone being worked on as we speak. Check out the Projects-Map
|
|
file for details (on sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/Incoming or /pub/Linux/docs (I
|
|
think)).
|
|
|
|
Ciao,
|
|
|
|
Alex.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
Alexandre Naaman | Try out my home page :
|
|
Mechanical Engineering Student | http://www.polymtl.ca:8001/zuse
|
|
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal | /naaman/Mosaic/home.html
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Subject: Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development
|
|
From: dholland@husc7.harvard.edu (David Holland)
|
|
Date: 29 Sep 94 22:39:58
|
|
|
|
jbarrett@onramp.net's message of Mon, 26 Sep 94 16:45:48 PDT said:
|
|
|
|
> Try this on for size..... New filesystem type = AMFS (AutoMount
|
|
> File System) Attempt to mount this file system to a device and
|
|
> mountpoint always succeeds When mountpoint is accessed then AMFS
|
|
> checks for floppy available and what type of floppy... The only
|
|
> question would be: Build FS support into AMFS for each file system
|
|
> type desired... or find existing kernel FS support routines
|
|
|
|
This is not entirely correct. Removable media, such as floppies, are
|
|
also changeable. Any such scheme should support multiple volumes. That
|
|
is, look in /floppies/foo to get your disk "foo", /floppies/bar to get
|
|
"bar". Ideally a reference to a disk not presently available should
|
|
cause a message on the system console asking for the disk to be
|
|
inserted.
|
|
|
|
Thus you could, for instance, cp /floppies/foo/* /floppies/bar and
|
|
expect it to work if you have only one floppy drive.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
- David A. Holland | -- "Do you have a moment?" -- "Yes.
|
|
dholland@husc.harvard.edu | Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia."
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
|
|
Subject: Re: Linux Device Driver info needed
|
|
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
|
|
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 1994 22:42:51 GMT
|
|
|
|
In <Cx20B3.3Ky@SSD.intel.com> wms@ssd.intel.com (William Shubert) writes:
|
|
|
|
> This is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find this newsgroup's FAQ on rtfm
|
|
>or anywhere else, so here goes...
|
|
> I need to write a device driver for Linux. I looked through the
|
|
>src/linux/drivers directory, and found some good examples but no
|
|
>documentation. Is there any documentation on the linux kernel anywhere?
|
|
|
|
There exists a "Kernel Hackers Guide" that you should be able to find
|
|
in the documentation tree of major Linux sites. (filename is khg*, I think)
|
|
|
|
> If there isn't, could somebody point me to a device driver that accesses
|
|
>a device on the memory bus by doing memory accesses instead of using the
|
|
>outb/inb calls? All the standard drivers seemed to use the I/O bus. I
|
|
>suppose that the hardware I'll be using could be modified to look for I/O
|
|
>accesses instead of memory accesses (it'll be a custom card), but I'd
|
|
>prefer to access it as memory.
|
|
|
|
Devices that are memory mapped include the video card, and the WD80x3
|
|
ethernet cards. You can look at the drivers for those.
|
|
|
|
Rob
|
|
--
|
|
=========================================================================
|
|
| Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org |
|
|
| e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU |
|
|
=========================================================================
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible)
|
|
Subject: Re: Bug in MSDOS fs ?
|
|
Date: 3 Oct 1994 00:13:14 GMT
|
|
|
|
Per Holm <ph@fi.aau.dk> wrote:
|
|
> There seem to be a bug in the msdos fs..
|
|
>
|
|
> I have a 250 MB dos partition (formattet with MSDOS 5), and when mounting
|
|
> this partition under linux, I'm not able to read a file using the last
|
|
> cluster on the disk... It causes an I/O error...
|
|
>
|
|
> There is not any problems reading the same file when booting plain dos..
|
|
>
|
|
> The error has been in the kernel since 1.1.29, and may be in older versions.
|
|
|
|
The problem is that the DOS partition has an odd number of sectors.
|
|
Linus calls it ``the old "not a whole buffer" problem''. In the days
|
|
of 0.99.15f, I developed the following patch. Anyone can do better than
|
|
that?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bruno Haible
|
|
haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
|
|
|
|
|
|
begin 644 linux-1.1.44-last-sector-patches.gz
|
|
M'XL("*T!CBX VQI;G5X+3$N,2XT-"UL87-T+7-E8W1O<BUP871C:&5S -4:
|
|
M:W/:2/*S\RO&N8H+@0 )!!@,5#F&U'G7=O8P2?8NFU():12T%H+5([%WU__]
|
|
M>AX:C4!@)['CK,MEHYF>?G=/=PO'<UU4#5'5;B+?"Y+KJE[3:X91=T+O$PZC
|
|
M^LQ?VE=UUU^N5C<UF\%LV7Q6+I?O@V3O,@G0<?(1Z0;26SU#ZQGPH=LUGE6K
|
|
MU9T4Y)-:HZ?#K\9.EO,_E!6]V6RK>M-H(+J$T![Y0>SGN>-%5\B>6\%'C+P
|
|
MN<X+Y[?@N;H&9B=AB(/8I/PH1WPW78UO5OA]#N0#&J"+-V=G1\_V*23CW(R\
|
|
M/W&T"7E^_*LY.KW\V;P\_=^8([]E_SP7E=#EM(D.D'8-4BJ<]&AR61W&H65?
|
|
MP7GMB*HL$Q2>JC^\H/V^_G6R%AJYT])5^-/)C,RP[F:=L<O8R+$^FIR^'9?R
|
|
MVD 55'HU.EE?[?=11P%D3 ,,2W5(T*#A$'$99R&VKNA'PA8SEV!9F.OI62[D
|
|
MMECA[09PWSZ4HHK[4(HOL!98+7*H'\0FJW Y\X*/S*GREDEERP+IGR#;#K&*
|
|
M3-@PVAVU872:PH2V%6$$),\FOTS.>Q0;2;RFZ]BEK4(6Y(&<:&*_P0Z_H?%\
|
|
MA?'*=*S8$GSNA3A.P@"2TR?+]V +,XE+#O[DV9PTY_#5^71\,>I1:V5BI-9Z
|
|
M9#%$XGI(20H-U-*:*OSII@;ZE^<ZV$7_/GX[-AOFR>N+Z>3UV=EX<IEF\7SZ
|
|
M#>**=GVH?1B0HSAP/)=G:0%()2=_/M3(F>$P3<E)(#26W@+N,H3\#$BIG/1#
|
|
M'UV8U'/I8Z6B_,49(:E\^M]?QDS=9A2##@@_'VJN8W(MH,$ $=+HX(#944C+
|
|
M[?C8TCZ-J,6&;A@@>E/+DBE)-K/$=7%H+JQK-$1)!!]75F@M4E^L1=B.^269
|
|
M@0ZV .YR^8/-,[LBH(A"/K42I=@+A\C]:C0:OX(XY(QNA$R5'\%^A+D?I,H0
|
|
MV?<?J(QOTT.ADW2UKMKHZJ+$(>#@J25O #[J]1NM-OP#SQ24$?5+3U'DJX+S
|
|
M[V77$9.?PVZ8DO*SY?Q&X4I.S/PK"O/^_/BGUQ/S8B)1HF>/4BB(C@RH%N(_
|
|
M$AS%IAL _&C\]O1D;$[&_WDSOIRR^C93 '>,1U3 %\K.KX1'$]^Y7W_V$0=S
|
|
M9TM[QO?NZLXXV-[Y,D#GU@U"#>@K>JUVKZGM;L[2@]-Y@GY*?-K5:;V6)@X6
|
|
M5I%=3=6[[2SMV7,,N1C"*?9B;QF0&U-%"^OW95AA";;?AZ7J<.$%R]",YIX;
|
|
M*XHH<UCB!G= X B0LG]'W"&(#>DYR8#TF5""QUH R" O1,3Q2R_/7I\PNYHO
|
|
M3Z>7J(JZRE'.MHP'PI; )&Q+&6%U))=.Y+&GENY+A;BGV_F^&7XV >\6UY/V
|
|
M[W(_"91Z$NWR==0 3S)Z6F.W"VX_W#!Z^N%V-VPUU)9H9&YY)-?+H%A41JF^
|
|
MD+T,8LL+(A3/,:(K2Q=9OH\H]2J[ZR/27">!!ZX$N[K6,-#L)L: #U 1(RS#
|
|
MJ$>?V%(^77QX?WYZ ?^HB(PK[CP/R55+;WP54X41W#E4]4-#NI-(!>39Z-/2
|
|
M<\"WK[#),UO)@S**NIM*/H6?50 -$SM.K_8YMAQ"?$X2^%_$JY,@\CX&V$'D
|
|
M .-3!8&3@%W@_#C'#T?A$]U@^$V+8"0!=FWR'=[>,9:S6^2[L*P">Y;_3=P7
|
|
MIU#H?G2I<ER%@."J]/PEL$9]@(0VL+!86 '!EP"Q&4:3^KOZY+C^[OBWX+DB
|
|
MMRT\WX LE%=(#;-Y=3@ST[J@R[BGHHE-2B@(00HN(!PG-[#P))9G6*XJV& N
|
|
M5F+(@%]H</NHQ(E4&%(%VA.%:1EJ/ ;IA1F#R2I>DF:+]6$2%*A/6DNEW$\'
|
|
M+K3\9P8%!I@N"(NE\#,IW-Y-3J=CJ-S1?D9307__C?C^9'P\(MMY)A3"*5$J
|
|
M;R]D_.QN(&:3[H:',YMP,Q#Z$4S(+9!S=-];>)3,758]$@[ CO31FHV9C22
|
|
M 8<0EM^KET700/7NA=B_0<LD)IDMI./-<IU#WL])"KTDYR9[MR@K!67Z]"J'
|
|
M9)MG0$40VH%-J( $@AO9+DRX*I>-4GD:7RSL-)I09QL\I[,12PLZ,GUM'+8/
|
|
M6H"2 2](6RM6Z2+O>8"IC2UA;_K$*Q.X?P@\WX,SE>R,4%KJS2 ?F,!V:V!^
|
|
MQQ3YL[Y&2$+=!PD,WGBE?3N%F<WA[O2Y]0-\S?QDBU;@/FZT#6G>20Q#T9!(
|
|
M':0>1AYDJ>^KIOTB-561$#Y3SCWE% CWUN$J ^D6Y3 B"+@:N'YD$+9$G4?$
|
|
M$^E>C]9)I8VU;-U-BK*< Q$)S#H+*TS]U+1]; 4B&G*\S+F]V-P O+8CO_SX
|
|
M+O;).6AFHSQTD4(>RIUWFCE?<GPO4Q=2?4!S%X9G%\*S*T:E>YD!P7Y'8@6'
|
|
M(>-1R]8VF-K?U.5 NA7OX^/;%9A178AI<Z%#-S5-;6K9ZZ$'ET@RTTZI\N;\
|
|
M1LGN["DC._+J4;C12XKU[3VD %EK_XQNK]7=UCMN.Z1!V]C<WC-VNKK:Z7;D
|
|
MB2W!9)Z,2 =>2R)28O 96GXKQL&VK1 OK!7;W&>;H3QSDD%M:V797LQ?)MU*
|
|
MTZ<O'*NE@DC3UB<1A+S8TK])FJVNY?() 4$F_"J_N.E4^?WU:83>,P[7/6KG
|
|
M"7)HUPA"5Z67UTO7C3!)S:[GKZI#UUPM(W1 :G% 3_18U95TX)BKT:FF2K34
|
|
M9J4T+?D'Q1"\/.?M5A^MS;T4TBH(BN;,XP,D6@JC#/?IQ=0\/_Z5[GV>>SY&
|
|
M)9HMAAJI.^DD@PJ7.MC3"+<^U0,B#R-@85/>,E2]K<F3^B*IC^XMXE>8[RY1
|
|
M6!O*&94FZH_/:($I[F1V:VQ[@>TG#JZS$&13Z#D/R,*]S4@O!-M[![WM"-L(
|
|
MZ60";A@]O47"MRD%?/'!S0FXOCWNH=4R6K*?T"%4J>P%7JR4R(-R1%O.4UB
|
|
M5M/[TR*C8V1#UPD,SK"[##'ZC)&SA!XT1/&<O/MGU2.?,,T=DW\JDWZ5H1-#
|
|
M:!1;,S_MF4DO7V9#8-;HI@-%-D8D4T06+YP"@8=2@10(_$"0+&90&)!6&!91
|
|
M.GZDX$*\,MGC+T<CQ@]@PF$ )\A] ]"T **ZD5SS1]?-W/+=*E=0*9VR1LJC
|
|
M*^N>P;&(G&5DNM&6^,BV[PJ1#))&"7'V1@=IS5ZK4_ EOJUGIPEF9]NH ?=I
|
|
MLZ>U=[PJTC55;^A2J/#O!YCFS^/)Q?C,-'/#7"\ >KAP7LM8B$"O#IWPDM<P
|
|
MTKB6:;T,>,*8S751YC Y1*QG2@=E^R56Y%*\!">OPLF[5)6^"E 419K8B0J9
|
|
M=CB,7JZBKI32">@!TND7?R[')U.HA.CMS&MKBHDQ<LM2.E64/-XN5%0%EIEA
|
|
M4)]9Y@I\"ONU^?"'5R(?!:8C4XD5Y%J>3Z(<@I?'Y0NG_L)1T]:<?>LQNYS4
|
|
9[&[BI')356ZC"AO//9RA_@_/N^2H<2L *(<
|
|
|
|
end
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: c-clark@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu (Champ Clark)
|
|
Subject: ifmail25 trap.c
|
|
Date: 1 Oct 1994 10:04:02 -0400
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Greetings....
|
|
|
|
I am attempting to compile ifmail25, and have hit some errors
|
|
, namely in iflib/trap.c . Seems that it gets a "context"
|
|
error (sorry, I am at work, and cannot see the errors).
|
|
This was compiled with slakeware 2.0.0...
|
|
|
|
Any ideas would be helpful
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
|
|
Subject: Re: [DOSEMU] Running dosemu disables serial port!!
|
|
Date: 1 Oct 1994 13:18:52 GMT
|
|
|
|
In article <1994Sep30.132826.15855@excaliber.uucp>,
|
|
Joel M. Hoffman <joel@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
|
|
-I'm running DOSEMU 0.52, and it's GREAT, except that when DOSEMU is
|
|
-active on the console, nothing else can use the serial port! If I
|
|
-have kermit or rz/sz running on the serial port, communication simply
|
|
-stops. If I don't --- even worse --- mgetty goes crazy. Incoming
|
|
-FAX's and logins are not processed.
|
|
-
|
|
-I've already taken all the serial lines out of dosemu.conf. Is this a
|
|
-known problem? Has it been fixed in any of the pre_53 releases? Is
|
|
-there a workaround?
|
|
|
|
Just a thought. is that serial port at COM4? That address often conflicts
|
|
with some ports on SVGA cards. And DOSEMU runs the VGA BIOS.
|
|
|
|
Just a thought.
|
|
|
|
BAJ
|
|
--
|
|
Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
|
|
Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
|
|
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: jwshin@nitride.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Jinwoo Shin)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.intrinsics,gnu.misc.discuss
|
|
Subject: Re: What GUI to write for?
|
|
Date: 3 Oct 94 13:45:01 GMT
|
|
|
|
toshok@cs.uidaho.edu (Chris Toshok) writes:
|
|
|
|
> I don't think Athena or Motif is the answer. One is absolutely ugly, and
|
|
>the other is absolutely overpriced (not free). I for one would be willing
|
|
>to write some widgets for a GPLed widget set.
|
|
|
|
Yes, Motif is very ugly IMHO and I don't think Athena is overpriced at all :)
|
|
For me xview hits the spot. Code freely available, and its API is not too bad
|
|
and GUI is aesthetically pleasing in my eyes. Good example being workman.
|
|
--
|
|
Jinwoo Shin jwshin@eecs.berkeley.edu
|
|
System Administrator
|
|
Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: hstrong@eng1.uconn.edu (Hugh Strong)
|
|
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.intrinsics,gnu.misc.discuss
|
|
Subject: Re: What GUI to write for?
|
|
Date: 3 Oct 1994 14:13:04 GMT
|
|
|
|
Marc Fraioli (mjf@clark.net) wrote:
|
|
: In article b38@panix2.panix.com, mmarten@panix.com (Marten Liebster) writes:
|
|
: >I want to write a X application or two. At first they would be for
|
|
: >personal use, but eventually I might make them availble for the
|
|
: >public to use.
|
|
: >
|
|
: >I am not sure which GUI/toolkit to use. It would be nice to keep it
|
|
: >portable to use under various UIs. Do I have to use Xlib? or can I
|
|
: >write them using XView?
|
|
: >
|
|
: I have been pondering the same question for a while now. Ideally, I
|
|
: would like to use Motif, as I already know it, it is pretty standard,
|
|
: and I like it. Alas, it's not free. I'm willing to pay for it for
|
|
: Linux, but most Linux users aren't. I'd like to make my stuff accessible
|
|
: to as many people as possible-- that's why Linux has improved the way
|
|
: it has. XView is a definite possibility since it's a complete toolkit
|
|
: and it's free. I find its look and feel somewhat ungainly though, and
|
|
: now that Sun is abandoning it in favor of CDE/Motif, it is dying a slow
|
|
: death. There is also the Athena Widgets, which are free and relatively
|
|
: complete, but kind of ugly. You can get a 3d version, but it is only
|
|
: partially 3d, and it appears not to have been worked on in a year or
|
|
: two. Finally, I've been looking at the widgets from the Free Widget
|
|
: Foundation. There are some very nice ones in the set, and they come
|
|
: with good examples. Unfortunately, the look and feel is not uniform
|
|
: (some are Motif-like, some are Athena-like, and others are just out
|
|
: there), and the set of widgets available is not as comprehensive as
|
|
: Motif's. Of course, there is also Stallman's recent note about Tk
|
|
: and the Scheme bindings available for it. I'm no big fan of Scheme,
|
|
: however. I'd prefer to stick with C or C++. I'm not really interested
|
|
: in using Tcl either-- I want to use a compiled language for speed.
|
|
: I'm currently leaning towards FWF, and possibly writing a widget or
|
|
: two of my own to fill in some of what's missing. I'd like to hear others'
|
|
: thoughts on this though.
|
|
|
|
: Since I think this is a fairly important question, I'm adding
|
|
: comp.windows.x.intrinsics and gnu.misc.discuss.
|
|
|
|
Check out several API kits on sunsite. The one I'm most aquainted
|
|
with is called wxWin, which is installed on my machine, although
|
|
I haven't played with it yet. It's for building applications
|
|
for XView, Motif, and (Yes, it does do windows) Windows/WinNT. It
|
|
looks impressive, and I may get around to using it someday. The toolkits
|
|
are in /pub/Linux/X11/devel, but one of the wxWin files is corrupted
|
|
and you'll have to go to the home for the complete package.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-- Hugh Strong
|
|
hstrong@ug1.eng1.uconn.edu
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org (Michael Faurot)
|
|
Subject: Re: An idea: Weighting the cache per device
|
|
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:39:01 GMT
|
|
|
|
Gary Paul Gortmaker (gpg109@huxley.anu.edu.au) wrote:
|
|
|
|
: I was thinking that a lot could be gained by putting some sort of
|
|
: sysop-configurable weighting factor on block devices with respect to
|
|
: file system caching. (via an ioctl() or whatever seems appropriate...)
|
|
|
|
[examples deleted]
|
|
|
|
: # Sets priority level of each block device with respect to buffer cache.
|
|
: # Parsed by /sbin/setcache at boot time.
|
|
: # A value of zero means "don't cache this device" and a maximum value
|
|
: # of 10 means "hold onto cached blocks from this device". In general,
|
|
: # give low numbers to fast devices, and high numbers to slow devices.
|
|
: # Default value is 5, assigned by the kernel.
|
|
|
|
: /dev/hda 4 # Fast IDE
|
|
: /dev/hdb 5 # Slower IDE
|
|
: /dev/sda 2 # Barracuda SCSI disk, faster than hda
|
|
: /dev/sdb 6 # Old SCSI disk, slower than hdb
|
|
: /dev/sr0 8 # Slow SCSI CD-ROM
|
|
: /dev/mcd 9 # Mitsumi CD-ROM, slower than the SCSI CD-ROM
|
|
: /dev/fd0 10 # Try to keep 3.5" floppy info (until ejected :-)
|
|
: /dev/fd1 0 # I only read 5.25" disks once, and then eject them.
|
|
|
|
: # End of /etc/blk.cache
|
|
: $
|
|
|
|
: Too difficult? Is buffer.c already to ugly? Featur-itis?
|
|
|
|
No idea (not a developer) if this is feaseable or not. However as an
|
|
admin, if something like this were available, I'd want a reporting tool
|
|
for the cache system to help me judge if tweaking of the cache with
|
|
the weighting factors was helping or not.
|
|
--
|
|
+--------------------+----------------------------+--------------------------+
|
|
| Michael Faurot | mfaurot@phzzzt.atww.org | I don't like |
|
|
| ------- ------ | ...!netcomsv!phzzzt!mfaurot| lima beans!! |
|
|
+--------------------+--------------------+-------+--------------------------+
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: robert@plasma.apana.org.au (Robert Kroes)
|
|
Subject: Re: IBM Token Ring Support?
|
|
Date: 2 Oct 1994 01:43:33 GMT
|
|
|
|
Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org (Clarence Chu) writes:
|
|
|
|
> I would like to know whether IBM Token Ring Adaptor is
|
|
> being supported by Linux. I don't find it in FreeBSD, and
|
|
> in hope that the device driver is in Linux.
|
|
|
|
There is an ALPHA driver available. I've been using the 1.1.49
|
|
kernel patch for the past few weeks, and it works great!
|
|
|
|
You can ftp the latest patch from aix13ps2.cc.kuleuven.ac.be (I
|
|
forget the exact directory).
|
|
|
|
NOTE: For ISA cards, make sure the shared RAM of your adapter (not
|
|
---- the ROM address which you can set with the dipswitches!) is
|
|
located at 0xd0000, as this is hard-coded in the
|
|
linux-1.1.49-TR.diff.gz patch. Alternatively, you can edit
|
|
linux/drivers/net/ibmtr.c and change the two lines of hardcode
|
|
(from memory, look for 0xd0 & 0xd0000). I changed these to
|
|
0xd8 & 0xd8000 to suit my adapter...
|
|
|
|
Good luck...
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
-Robert Kroes-
|
|
robert@plasma.apana.org.au
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
From: imascara@bosco (-- Mascaraque --)
|
|
Subject: Which kernel suports two ethernet cards ?
|
|
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 10:49:15 GMT
|
|
|
|
We have a Linux box as a file server (pcnfs server).
|
|
At the time we are writing this message we want to connect it to
|
|
other network so we need to install a second ethernet card.
|
|
|
|
We have the following cards:
|
|
WD 8013
|
|
WD 8003 / NE1000 / NE2000
|
|
|
|
Can anybody tell us the kernel we need ? ( we have read that some kernels do
|
|
not suport more than one card )
|
|
|
|
Thanks in anticipation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
|
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
|
|
|
|
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
|
|
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
|
|
|
|
Internet: Linux-Development-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
|
|
|
|
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.development) via:
|
|
|
|
Internet: Linux-Development@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
|
|
|
|
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
|
|
nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux
|
|
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
|
|
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
|
|
|
|
End of Linux-Development Digest
|
|
******************************
|