John Baldwin's Interrupt Routing Patch
John has published a new patch:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_sci2.patch
阅读全文…GEOM kernel API Manual
Historically, the only translation performed on I/O requests after they they left the file-system layer were logical sub disk implementation done in the device driver. No universal standard for how sub disks are configured and implemented exists, in fact pretty much every single platform and operating system have done it their own way. As FreeBSD migrates to other platforms it needs to understand these local conventions to be able to co-exist with other operating systems on the same disk.
阅读全文…北京地震了
有轻微震感，估计在4级左右。
参与评论qmail remote vulnerablity?
Today someone posted a patch to qmail 1.0.3 and pointed out this.
I have a quick patch to this issue, hope it’s correct.
阅读全文…Preparing for an interview with David Xu
Today folks at FreeBSDChina suggested me to have an interview with FreeBSD’s David XU (Yifeng XU), who is an active committer, and possibly the only src committer living in the mainland China.
阅读全文…Dillon's comments on FreeBSD/DFly's VM
Dillon wrote:
Well, this is fun. There are over 460 files in the 5.x source tree (360 in DFly) that make calls to malloc(… M_NOWAIT), and so far about 80% of the calls that I’ve reviewed generate inappropriate side effects when/if a failure occurs. CAM is the biggest violator… it even has a few panic() conditionals if a malloc(… M_NOWAIT) fails. Not Fun!
阅读全文…Managed thread vs Win32 Thread
Q: Is managed thread just a thin wrapper over Win32(native) thread?
阅读全文…Ready to resume my x86asm work
I have announced a suspension and delay of the revision of my x86asm tutorial, as in cvs of the doc/x86asm/index.html, rev 1.2, on December 27, 2003. Today, I have made a back out of that.
Special thanks to: junsu and smalltong02 for helping me on getting out from the influence of the December Incident.
阅读全文…不好用的图形界面，要比文本界面难用10000倍~
日记节选.
以前听说微软在界面开发上投入了大笔的经费，其中的一些故事(如他们请人去用新的产品，把全过程拍下来，然后一点一点研究)也许有些夸张，但今天算被cygwin的安装程序狠狠地折腾了……
阅读全文…My plans for the upcoming few days
Of course I will be busy in the next days, and here is my plan for the upcoming few days (I meant to plan for a week or shorter time because many things will suddenly come and change my plans)
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