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    Back porting Intel NIC support

    This is an esoteric question but I thought I'd try here. For reasons I won't go in to, I'm stuck using FreeBSD 5.3. I would like to have support for the Intel 82574L based NIC in my 5.3 distro. This would mean back porting support from the Intel em driver v6.9.20 in to v5.1.5. I've gone over...
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    DDB compiled in, but CTRL-ALT-ESC disabled?

    I'd like to leave DDB compiled in, but control whether or not a hotkey can be used to break in to the debugger with a sysctl - is this possible? I just don't want my customers to accidentally hit the key sequence.. however, I do want the ability to have the debugger enabled when I want to get in...
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    FBSD 5.3 & New Xeon CPUs / APIC IDs

    Thanks for the replies. We've heavily modified the 5.3 kernel itself, which is why I'm stuck using it until we can spend the time to update our system. It's very difficult to work with obviously since it is so old and, as you've pointed out, people don't typically want to discuss such an old...
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    FBSD 5.3 & New Xeon CPUs / APIC IDs

    Yeah, I'm aware that 5.3 is no longer supported. I am planning on doing the development which I figured would have been understood since I mentioned making changes to kernel files. So, is this forum not for discussing driver / kernel development?
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    FBSD 5.3 & New Xeon CPUs / APIC IDs

    I'm upgrading a system which now has 2 Xeon processors, each with 4 HTT cores for a total of 16 cores. This needs to run on FreeBSD 5.3 for reasons I won't get in to. The problem is that, the APIC IDs are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 18, 19, ... 52, 53. They're assigned in groups of 4. The first 4 cores...
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    FreeBSD 5.3 : socket queues?

    Hi, This pertains to 5.3: Are there queues implemented at any point in the call-tree starting with "send()" - other than the actual hand off to the nic driver? In browsing the source, I can see send()-->_sendto()-->__sys_sendto() but can't find where that picks up in the kernel. Just jumping...
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    cpuset for 5.3

    Uhh.. yeah, I know that. I don't believe I implied that I thought moving up to 7.1 was my option. I'm asking for other possible solutions - "similiar to cpuset but for FreeBSD 5.3." ~billy
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    cpuset for 5.3

    Thanks, but that's not an option at this point. ~billy
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    cpuset for 5.3

    Hi All, I'm looking for functionality similar to "cpuset" but for FreeBSD 5.3. I want to lock a given process to a specific core or specific cores. I wouldn't be opposed to minor patching/kernel tweaking/rebuilding/whatever if needed. Just not sure what the available options are. Thank for...
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    Debugging ISR (FreeBSD 5.3)

    We've got a machine in the field dumping core in the NIC's ISR. I've got 2 core files and notice that, in both cases, thread ID 25 is the offending thread, and thread ID 24 shows some processing in the same ISR, but with some sort of stack corruption ("Previous frame inner to this frame"...
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