Alexander Leidinger

After the call for public testing we got some reports about LORs and a panic. This happened after an extensive parallel compiling session of linux stuff on a SMP system for several hours. Roman redid some of the locking and the fixes are in the tree. Intermediate patches already showed promising results. We’re waiting for [...]

Since my call for testing the extended linuxulator in FreeBSD-current we got not much negative responses. Ping doesn’t work on the linux side (fixed in p4), ordinary network connections (e.g. downloading some stuff) works fine. There seems to be a deadlock on SMP systems when compiling a lot of stuff in parallel (e.g. using emerge [...]

Ryan got permission to extend the work he did in the SoC as part of a class at university. He wants to push down the new mixer stuff to the driver level now. He does it in the emu10kx driver (because he has such a card) and maybe in another driver. This will allow to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Finally I used some free time to commit the VIA Envy24HT driver of Konstantin Dimitrov to -current. He told me it supports some soundcards which ALSA doesn’t support. Nice!

Please test and say “Thank you!” to him.

I started a wiki page about improving the soundsystem. The idea is similar to the wiki page about improving our linuxolator. It’s a way to tell the people what is currently available as patches (and where), what is broken and needs to be fixed, which improvements we like to see and so on. It’s maybe [...]