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Frank van der Linden heeft Bill Sommerfeld’s i386mp branch toegevoegd aan i386/-current. i386 SMP ondersteuning zou goed moeten werken op 1-CPU systemen en zeer goed op veel multi-processor systemen.

[quote][b]Frank’s message to current-users[/b]

Subject: HEADS UP: i386mp branch merged
To: None
From: Frank van der Linden
List: current-users
Date: 10/01/2002 15:54:59
I just merged Bill Sommerfeld’s i386mp branch into i386/-current. The
code should work fine on 1-CPU systems‚ and quite well on a lot
of multiprocessor systems (certainly the newer ones).

Known issues:

* The performance counter code (options PERFCTRS) has been
obsoleted by this‚ since it doesn’t work on multiprocessor
systems. The code and manpage will be changed to reflect
this.

* Interrupt counters (vmstat -i) won’t work for the time
being if MULTIPROCESSOR is defined.

* There are probably a few locking problems lurking in the
USER_LDT code with MULTIPROCESSOR switched on.

* As on all other platforms that support MP (or kernel
configs that have LOCKDEBUG switched on)‚ RAIDframe
may have locking problems. Recently‚ an effort was
made to fix this‚ but I haven’t been able to verify
if it works. Note that RAIDframe is currently broken
in -current because of a seperate issue.

* Interrupt line sharing between different IPLs isn’t
optimal in the MP case (although not really much worse
than the single processor case).

Interrupt handling and some other reshuffling will hopefully
be redone in the near future (I have code which isn’t quite
there yet).

Note that kernel config files for single processor machines need the line:

cpu0 at mainbus0

..to configure correctly.

Multiprocessor kernels need:

cpu* at mainbus?
ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
options MULTIPROCESSOR
options COM_MPLOCK

..and if you want debugging and/or lots of output:

options MPDEBUG
options MPVERBOSE

Also‚ because of other‚ unrelated changes‚ you’ll need to recompile
config(8) first if you want to configure a new kernel.

– Frank

—
Frank van der Linden fvdl@wasabisystems.com
==========================================
Quality NetBSD Development‚ Support & Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/

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Bron: [url=http://www.webwereld.nl]Webwereld[/url]

Alle abonnees met een vast IP-adres kunnen zich aanmelden voor IPv6. Het gaat daarbij om abonnees met een adsl-abonnement. Die hebben standaard een eigen IP-adres. “Maar ook abonnees met een inbelabonnement kunnen bij ons een vast IP-adres aanvragen”‚ aldus Sjoera Nas van XS4ALL.

Wie in Nederland gebruik wilde maken van IPv6‚ was tot nu toe aangewezen op een zogeheten IPv6 tunnelbroker. “Nadeel daarvan was dat je niet precies wist hoe veilig een dergelijke tunnel was”‚ aldus Nas.

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Als iemand vraagt “wat is BSD?” dan zullen de meeste mensen zeggen “een operating system!”. Maar BSD is niet alleen een OS‚ het is ook een leefwijze‚ een filosofie en een groeiende collectie van software welke meestal gratis te verkrijgen is.

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Bron: [url=http://www.tweakers.net]T.net[/url]

Na ruim vier jaar is de RC5-64 sleutel gekraakt. Dankzij de inzet van meer dan 300.000 mensen is bewezen dat distributed computing en de inzet van vrijwilligers instaat is tot grootste prestaties.

[url=http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/23555]Het hele artikel[/url]

Bron: [url=http://www.webwereld.nl]Webwereld.nl[/url]

In Europa zijn er voor het eerst meer mensen die gebruikmaken van dsl dan van de kabel voor internet. Ook het totaal aantal breedbandabonnees blijft stijgen.
Volgens recent onderzoek van de Nationale Telecom Monitor zijn er in Nederland ongeveer 900.000 huishoudens die gebruik maken van dsl of kabel.

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Een paar dagen terug deelde Bruce A. Mak mede dat RC 1 beschikbaar is.
Dit is de laatste release voor de final die gepland staat voor 1 oktober

De mail van Bruce
[quote]From: Bruce A. Mah
To: freebsd-stable‚ freebsd-qa
Subject: FreeBSD 4.7-RC1
Date: Thu‚ 19 Sep 2002 10:03:29 -0700

FreeBSD 4.7-RC1 (the first release candidate for FreeBSD 4.7) is now
available for the i386 architecture from the usual FTP sites. Both an
FTP site and a “miniinst” ISO image are available‚ respectively from:

ftp:///pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.7-RC1/
ftp:///pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.7/

No packages are available for this snapshot‚ due to some
recently-discovered problems with our package support. These will be
resolved in time for the 4.7-RC2 snapshot.

We invite interested users to try out the release candidates and
provide feedback (via the qa@ list) on issues to be fixed before
4.7-RELEASE‚ currently scheduled for 1 October 2002. At least one
(possibly two) more release candidate snapshots will be uploaded
before the final release.

Before reporting problems‚ please check the QA page for this
release-in-progress‚ to make sure that a problem has not already been
encountered:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/qa.html

FreeBSD 4.7-RC1 for the alpha architecture is currently being uploaded
and should be available shortly.

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Bruce A. Mah
(for the Release Engineering team)[/quote]

Bron: [url=http://www.webwereld.nl/]Webwereld[/url]

De smiley is twintig jaar oud. Het teken : – ) wordt inmiddels door vele internetters en mobiele bellers in hun berichten gebruikt.
Volgens een onderzoeker van Microsoft is de eerste smiley op 19 september 1982 gebruikt door ene Scott Fahlman. De onderzoeker kwam tot deze conclusie na uitgebreid onderzoek in de digitale archieven van de Carnegie Mellon universiteit.

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Het NetBSD project heeft een aantal security advisories gepubliceerd‚ waarvan sommige alleen updates zijn.
[quote]With the release of NetBSD 1.6‚ the NetBSD project is publishing a batch of Security Advisories (some of which are updates)‚ as follows:

* 2002-006 buffer overrun in libc/libresolv DNS resolver
x 2002-007 Repeated TIOCSCTTY ioctl can corrupt session hold counts
*x 2002-009 Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL code
*x 2002-010 symlink race in pppd
*x 2002-011 Sun RPC XDR decoder contains buffer overflow
x 2002-012 buffer overrun in setlocale
x 2002-013 Bug in NFS server code allows remote denial of service
x 2002-014 fd_set overrun in mbone tools and pppd
x 2002-017 shutdown(s‚ SHUT_RD) on TCP socket does not work as intended
x+ 2002-018 Multiple security isses with kfd daemon

(*) reissue (x) affects 1.5.3 (+) affects 1.6

These advisories involve bugs in libc (affecting static binaries)‚ as well as the kernel. A full system rebuild is recommended to collectively address all of these issues‚ but please make sure to read through all of the advisories in case specific issues affect your system.

Because of the extensive rebuild required‚ the NetBSD 1.6 release was delayed in order to include fixes for as many of these issues as possible‚ so as to provide binary release users with an easy upgrade path.

Readers will note that there are some gaps in the above numbering. These pending advisories involve third parties‚ and are awaiting disclosure co-ordination‚ so we cannot publish them at this time. However‚ they are fixed in NetBSD 1.6.

Unfortunately‚ the recent 1.5.3 release was affected by most of these issues. Unlike NetBSD 1.6‚ the 1.5 branch cannot be automatically cross-built to release‚ and so any updated binary release from the 1.5 tree will take considerable time and developer effort.

Therefore:

* The recommended cumulative fix for pre-1.6 systems is to upgrade to NetBSD 1.6.
* Users who cannot upgrade to 1.6 are recommended to update to the most recent sources on the NetBSD-1.5 branch‚ via anoncvs‚ and rebuild from there.
* Users of NetBSD-current should upgrade to source more recent than September 11‚ 2002‚ and rebuild the kernel and all userland.

Having updated the base NetBSD distribution via one of the above‚ the following steps are necessary for all users:

* Recompile statically-linked binaries from pkgsrc‚ or custom builds (for 2002-006)
* Remove any shared libraries with older major numbers. (2002-006)
* Remove any shared libraries for OS emulation under /emul‚ unless you are sure it has no security vulnerabilities. (2002-006)
* Follow instructions in 2002-018
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Bron: [url=http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/02/09/16/1855253.shtml?tid=152]Slashdot[/url]

NVIDIA komt met officiele FreeBSD drivers !!
Lees de post [url=http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/02/09/16/1855253.shtml?tid=152]slashdot[/url] en de [url=http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html]announcement[/url] van [url=http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/]The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative[/url].

Quote uit de announcement:
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We’re once again waiting for NVIDIA. There really isn’t anything we can do‚ and there will be no further non-official driver releases (in other words‚ the next driver you will see will come straight from NVIDIA).
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