Alexander Leidinger

In multimedia@ we have a discussion about the envy24* chips. One question is how to convince companies to provide some technical information or at least free hardware samples. As part of the answer I pointed to http://www.bsdstats.org/ which may be able to provide some numbers (e.g. envy24* chips without a matching driver) which may help [...]

Today I committed two patches which fix the last two panics we know about in the 2.6.16 emulation. Now we need testers. Here’s the text of the mail I did send to current@ a few moments ago:
Hi,

today I committed the last fixes for the showstopper problems (panics) in the linux 2.6.16 emulation. I intend to [...]

I got time yesterday to test acroread with the patch from Intron/Kostik and … Yeah! I was not able to crash acroread in the 2.6.16 emulation! Great! Request for widespread testing soon?!?

Now we just have to determine if we have to care about the locking (I don’t know if kib@ already asked jhb@ about it) [...]

Ariffs changes two months ago to reduce the latency in the soundsystem also prepared the way for multichannel support and Yuriy added multichannel recording to the emu10kx driver (there are some bugs ATM and it is only a proof of concept to play around with it until we get real multichannel support in the generic [...]

DragonFly synced with a not so current version of our soundsystem. I had a little discussion with them and pointed out some recent improvements and some drivers they missed to sync. They don’t have the man power to participate in large improvements, but I hope for some small benefits like bugfixes or additional PCI IDs. [...]

On of the major showstopper bugs in the linux 2.6 emulation is that acroread does not work. Now we have patches (proof of concept by Intron, refined patch by Kib) for it. I didn’t had time to test it yet (mind you, everyone else is not able to run acroread with 2.6, I’m able to [...]

Shaun submitted some patches to the people at Real. It already got a test run on the build system. Reports are, that it looks very good. But it seems Shaun has to fill out some (electronic) paper work before they can accept the patch officially. I don’t know more.

I want to use a socket (mysql) in multiple jails. Using nullfs to mount it in each jail where you want to use it does not work (bug in nullfs?). Using a hardlink (if the jails reside on the same FS) works. I hope this info safes a little bit of time in case someone [...]

Today I removed the LINUX stuff from GENERIC on amd64 (this syncs with i386). Now that kib@ committed the kernel linker stuff the linux module is usable on amd64 too. This allows for more easy testing/patching on amd64 and also allows on-demand-loading like on i386.

I’m busy with non-FreeBSD related stuff since a while, so there’s not much to say.

RealPlayer: Shaun, the FreeBSD maintainer of the helixplayer port, promised to polish up a patchset when he gets time to port helixplayer to a more recent version and send it to the corresponding helix community (requested by some people at Real [...]