Kernel

Sigh, I got this:

This doesn’t seem to be possible to my best of knowledge. What happend?

It’s 5.3-RELEASE-p2, and the panic string was: panic: pmap_enter: invalid page directory pdir=0xc1e063, va=0xffc00000

It’s now consered as a legacy branch like RELENG_2_2 and RELENG_3. Future commits to RELENG_4 no longer needs re@’s approval, but only those committed to RELENG_4_11 (with re@’s approval, of course) will go to 4.11-RELEASE. 4.11-RELEASE will be the final 4-STABLE release and it will be a errata release.

Finally NetBSD has released their 2.0-RELEASE, which is a significant progress of the NetBSD development.

NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports fifty four different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 2.0 continues the long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals.

When I have loaded drm/radeon, my laptop will reboot right after X11 is going to start. Not known why this time… :-(

I have ported Matt’s patch to 4-STABLE however Matthew Seaman reports that there is still panic, while different, after the patch and I believe I should port Matt’s VM post-morti diagnostic tools to HEAD.

I have been suffered by the speed of GNOME because it usually gets “jitter”.

It seems that marcus@ have the same problem. I have tried HZ=100 but it seems that nothing was changed. Then I have disabled ACPI and it seems the issue was worked around.

What happend in ACPI, so? Still under investigate.

Matt has committed a critical VM fix and kindly reminded that FreeBSD has also the issue. I have ported the patch here and requested a review by Dr. Alan Cox. I’d like to commit it at once it is approved.

It seems that FreeBSD and NetBSD have a lot of difference on busdma interfaces and this has blocked me from porting OpenBSD’s firmware upload support on mpt(4). Will have another attempt this weekend.

Scott Long have committed this which will:

Jean-Sébastien Pédron [jspedron club-internet.fr] has announced that he has ported ReiserFS 3.6 (from kernel 2.6.7) to FreeBSD (with only Read-Only support this time).

Scott Long suggests to import these to base because 6-CURRENT will have a focus on the file system. I suggested that we have a directory under somewhere in the src/ tree to keep these Linux bits so we can backport their fixes more easily and it should be better for us to rip these things out when we have re-written something from scratch.