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From: smm@iedv7.acd.com ( Steve McCoole )
Subject: BSDI BSD/386 Ported Software List 02/02
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Subject: Section 3. Patches or enhancments for BSDI systems.
Date: Mon Apr 05 19:00:29 EST 1993
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[ Admin Note: Most (All?) of the patches and extensions listed here
are available on BSDI.COM in one of the download directories or
in one of the mailing list archives. Some of the early listings
are probably only available from one of the mailing list archives.
Notes for beta level stuff have been deleted.
-SMM ]
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(GAMMA) A version of the Logitech busmouse driver has been created
by Erik and is available.
erik@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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Patches for gcc2.2.1 compilation errors. block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block)
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Patches for gnu linker bug that shows up with g++.
donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
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Patches for pbmplus compilation on bsdi.
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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Patches to allow you to build libg++-2.2. You may have configure
problems using /bin/sh, I used bash and did a 'configure bsdi'.
block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block)
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Filehandles patch for perl. Required for perl man package to work.
block@gmf.eds.com (Jon Block)
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Patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver posted to alt.sources work
under BSDI.
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
(GAMMA) Patches to John's patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver to
work under GAMMA release.
Steve McCoole <smm@acd4.acd.com>
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Another set of patches for gcc-2.2.2.
Roland Wilcher <raw@ushiva.ncoast.org>
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Patches to tar so that it does not require the minus in front of
options.
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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Posting of SLIP scripts and experiences in setting it up.
"Lee A. Butler" <butler@brl.mil>
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(GAMMA) Fixes to beta and gamma db(3) bugs.
Robert Willis <rwillis@bbn.com>
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Patches to make elm mailer compile by Brian Litzinger. Sent by
Marc.
Marc G. Frank <mgfrank@avernus.com>
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Gcc 2.2.2 fix for recursive code generation bug.
Taavi Talvik <taavi@abc.postimees.ee>
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(GAMMA) Fix to boot stopping while updating the LEDs on the keyboard.
This fix was for beta and gamma.
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA) Fix to wangtek tape driver to allow it to read more than one
archive off of a tape. Patch is for beta and gamma.
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA) Patch to correctly set paths.el for emacs in beta and gamma.
composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem)
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(GAMMA) Fix for getloadavg in libkvm for not closing file descriptors.
This fixes the bug mentioned in the gamma release notes and takes care
of the sendmail problem.
composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem)
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(GAMMA) Fix for monop that makes the random number generator work properly.
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA) Filters and setup to support postscript printers under gamma.
erik@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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(GAMMA) Fix for sort dumping core on "sort +3".
composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem)
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(GAMMA) Fix for uucp problem of SEGV when a "from" argument is not specified.
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA) Fix to the new uucp from UUNET to recognize entries in the
CONFIG file.
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA) Another fix to the new uucp from UUNET.
Eric Ziegast <ziegast@uunet.uu.net>
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(GAMMA) Fixes to xload to make it work under BSD/386 gamma (0.9.1).
composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem)
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Agetty a replacement for getty on machines running SysV, SunOS or BSDI
BSD/386. It supports hardware handshaking, bidirectional line support and
other stuff. brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger)
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Perl scripts for starting up slip automatically.
Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
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Su program, sudo, that supports the -c option.
brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger)
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Attached is a uuencoded tar.Z of vgaset, a program for interactively
sizing screens. It can be run from another terminal and is thus usable
even if the display is not readable. It outputs a mode line suitable
for inclusion in Xconfig. Documentation is included.
uunet!lemis!grog (Greg Lehey)
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Yagetty. Yet Another getty program with handling for dial-ins and
dial-outs on the same port.
uunet!lemis!grog (Greg Lehey)
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(GAMMA) Recently I purchased a Longshine LCS-8880 el-cheapo 4-port serial card
from Altex Electronics for about $75 plus shipping. The card has a single DB37
on the back panel with a cable that fans out to four male DB25 connectors, has
socketted 16450-style UARTs (easy to swap out for 16550's if needed), and in
general looks like pretty solid hardware.
It supports two address ranges, 0x1a0-0x1bf, or 0x2a0-0x2bf in the 'enhanced'
mode where all four ports share one interrupt line, which can be 2/9,3,4,5,6,7.
bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee)
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(GAMMA) We seem to get a lot of requests to look up ASC/ASCQ codes...
I'll append a patch to the scsicmd sources below which will let you
extract an English translation of these values like this:
% scsicmd -a 0x14/0
recorded entity not found
%
Scsicmd appears in gamma; if you don't have gamma and you want scsicmd,
ask Jeff for a copy.
donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
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(GAMMA) Patch for problems with floating point instructions in rundos
envirionment.
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
I can't live without my 8 port serial card, so I quickly hacked
gamma 0.9 com.c to support it with my generic multiport modifications.
While testing the bidirectional line usage, I discovered a bug, at
least in my opinion, in the DCD detection (fix included).
This version isn't as robust as the latest stuff I had for beta 0.3.3,
but it works. Also, something is interfering with the bidirectional
line usage.
(Sorry about posting this to both gamma and beta lists, but I wasn't
sure if a gamma list exists)
You have to add something along the lines of the following to your config
file:
# COM ports
# APT HSS08 multi-port serial card
device com0 at isa? port 0x100
device com1 at isa? port 0x108
device com2 at isa? port 0x110
device com3 at isa? port 0x118
device com4 at isa? port 0x120
device com5 at isa? port 0x128
device com6 at isa? port 0x130
device com7 at isa? port 0x138
The HSS08 shares one IRQ for all the ports, so I get warnings about
conflicting IRQs from the autoconfigurator during boot, but it works.
I also added:
stty -f /dev/com0 clocal
stty -f /dev/com1 clocal
...
to my /etc/rc.local, so things would stop blocking unexpectedly.
Brian Litzinger <brian@apt.bungi.com>
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(GAMMA)
The recently completed support for the Panasonic cdrom audio is now
available by anonymous ftp from bsdi.com:/sw/gamma/progs/libcdrom.tar.Z.
This tar archive contains the sources and objects for the library, plus
a binary for cdctl(1). Besides the Panasonic drive, it includes support
for the Toshiba 3201B SCSI, the Mitsumi ISA, and any SCSI-2 drive.
Pace Willisson
pace@bsdi.com
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(GAMMA)
An updated MH is available at bsdi.com in the /bsdi.sw/gamma/progs
directory. It is the LBL-UCB MH 6.5.1 version.
Tony Sanders <sanders@austin.bsdi.com>
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Here is the diff to add automatic file decompression to more, which
means that if you compress your man pages, that more will
automatically decompress them as they are displayed to you by "man".
File: bsdi.com:compressed_more.patch.
webb@napa.telebit.com (Bill Webb)
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Here is a portion of my fdisk program which prints out lines for
/etc/mtoolsrc written in C++. This file is in
File: bsdi.com:fdisk.mtoolsrc.prog.
Paul Borman <prb@cray.com>
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File and instructions on how to compile and get gcc 2.3.2 going under
BSDI. This file is under /bsdi.sw/sw/gnu/gcc2.3.2.compile on
File: bsdi.com:gcc2.3.2.compile
Bert Driehuis <DRIEHUIS@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl>
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Instructions on how to install BSDI on a notebook computer that did
not have an ethernet interface. This file is stored as
File: bsdi.com:webb.install.notebook.noether.
webb@napa.telebit.com (Bill Webb)
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(GAMMA)
Shell script to build symboic link trees for compiling off of
CD-ROM.
File: bsdi.com:cdlink and cdlink.patch01.
Paul Borman <prb@random.cray.com>.
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(GAMMA)
The following are my corrections to 4 math functions missing from the gamma
release. I have tested erf() and erfc(). I have not tested
drand48 and srand48. File:
File: bsdi.com:gamma.math.funcs.patch.
bts!bill@uunet.uu.net (Bill Hatch)
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(GAMMA3)
The new sed in gamma-3 fails both to compile and execute a
substitute expression like 's/\\/\\\\/g' which is supposed to
replace each back-slash with two back-slashes.
File: bsdi.com:gamma3.sed.patch
root@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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(GAMMA)
Someone reported a problem with slip where they would get host unreachable
errors even though the routing entries looked fine. I found a bug
in slip that would cause this error if the line was not using hardware
carrier detect, but instead used the clocal flag. Slip was checking
carrier detect without checking clocal as well. The fix is appended.
File: bsdi.com:host.unreachable.slip.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
Man page describing the ISO9660 CD-ROM filesystem.
File: bsdi.com:iso9660.man
pace@bsdi.com (Pace Willisson)
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(GAMMA)
I find it quite annoying that stock ps reports the name of /dev/com1 to
be co, the same as for /dev/console. The following 4 additional lines to
print.c in the ps directory fixes that:
Files: bsdi.com:ps.com.report.patch*
Paul Borman <prb@random.cray.com>
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(GAMMA)
The distributed new sed is unable to compile regular expressions
like this one (occuring frequently in GNU configure scripts, found
this one from the gdb 4.7 configure)
s/^[-a-z_]*=//
The problem is with the first character in the [] character set.
Traditional sed (BSD 4.3) allows a single - to be treated as a
ordinary character.
As sed uses the regex stuff in libcompat, I fixed it to allow
this syntax in /usr/src/lib/libcompat/regcomp.c See the case
that was removed by #ifdef notdef
This problem also exists in the libc regexp version. But as
I do not know what POSIX has to say about this syntax, I haven't
bothered to fix it there too.
File: bsdi.com:sed.dash.patch
root@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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(GAMMA)
Tcpdump patches:
Patch 1
This is a real bug. If you have NE[12]000 Ethernet card or
3Com EtherLink III(ef?) or EtherLink Plus(ep?) card, you should
better to apply this patch.
Patch2
Yesterday, I posted my fix to here. Today, I found a much
better way to fix this problem. If you already applied my
previous fix, please restore files(both net/bpf.c and
i386/isa/if_ne.c) and then apply the following fix.
File: bsdi.com:patches/tcpdump.patch[1-2]
Yoshitaka Tokugawa <toku@dit.co.jp>
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(GAMMA)
Another script to make a set of symlinks to compile off of a CD-ROM
filesystem.
File: bsdi.com:web.makelinks.script.
webb@napa.telebit.com (Bill Webb)
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(GAMMA)
If you are running version 8.9 of Ingres on BSD/386, you may have noticed
some problems with the locking deamon. The biggest problem, which I fixed,
is that the ingreslock program is using older semantics for select. They
used long's with select instead of fd_set's so select gets horribly
confused. I assume this is a relic of the days when the second parameter
to select was just an int.
Anyway, I removed the bit fiddling and changed all of the manipulations to
their correct FD_XXX counterparts. Plus, I initialized a table that
seemed to need it (maybe it didn't, but it doesn't to hurt!)
If you have picked up ingres89.tar.Z from bsdi.com or applied the
Ingres.diff file sent there, just:
cd /usr/ingres/source/support (or your source area/support)
patch -p <this_file
I have found a couple of other changes from the Lynix port. I'll be posting
those very soon:
File: bsdi.com:ingress.lock.driver.patches
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA)
Below is a shar archive with the necessary changes for BSDI. They
has been tested on gamma 1 and gamma 3. I do not know if they will
work on the beta release.
To configure and compile smail, you will need to install a current version
of bash as /bin/sh. The shipped version of /bin/sh (ash) will not work,
and neither will older versions of bash. Also, at least on gamma 1, you will
need to create the file mkdriv.perl by running mkdriv.awk through
a2p (awk to perl). THe makefile shipped with smail3-28 will then know
to do the right thing.
File: bsdi.com:smail-3.28.patches
bjorn@sysadmin.com (Bjorn Satdeva)
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(GAMMA)
Patches to compile libg++ version 2.3 under BSDI.
File: bsdi.com:libg++-2.3.patches
Bert Driehuis <DRIEHUIS@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl>
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(GAMMA)
Third, I wrote a new getopt for perl. I was hoping a few people here
might like to test it before I post it to comp.lang.perl, to sniff out
any bugs I may have missed. What distinguishes it from the getopts
provided with perl is that you can specify the variable the command-line
option affects. Additionally, you can have simple flags, options that
take single arguments, or options that take multiple arguments.
File: bsdi.com:frank.perl.getopt
mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank)
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(GAMMA)
Patches to make ELM 2.4pl17 mailer compile under BSDI gamma.
File: bsdi.com:elm2.4.pl17.patch
nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
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(GAMMA)
These are changes to GDB 4.7 in order to support it for
BSD/386 from BSDI. Unfortunately, because BSDI uses a new
a.out format (magic number 0314) it is kind of difficult to
merge it into the 386BSD support without pain. So these
changes adds the configuration option 'i386-unknown-bsdi'.
NOTE: Does not support kernel debugging!
File: bsdi.com:gdb4.7.patch
erik@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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(GAMMA)
Here are my patches for gamma4. I didn't have to hack on xmix, just
recompiled it from scratch (using gcc-2, not the gcc-1.xx which comes
with the system, though).
File: bsdi.com:sblast1.5.gamma.patches
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
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(GAMMA)
I got tired of the autorepeating Caps/Num/Scroll Lock keys and tried to do
something about it. The console keyboard handling is fixed easy enough, but
the X server uses the raw scancodes from the keyboard and needs to be fixed
as well. Since I use the ATI Graphics Ultra X server I can't fix this myself.
A crude patch to disable autorepeating "Lock" keys in the console driver is
included later in this mail.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.autorepeat.key.patch
Hans Nasten <nasten@everyware.se>
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(GAMMA)
Several folks have run into problems with the new bidirectional modem
feature; there are a few things that slipped through the cracks when
that was integrated into gamma.4. We have a package of fixes that should
make things work correctly with getty, tip, uucp and kermit, courtesy
of Pace Willison. I have included the source patches in this message as
a shar file; a complete package including pre-compiled binaries is available
via anonymous FTP from BSDI.COM, bidir.tar.Z.
If anyone needs binaries and cannot get them via FTP, contact polk@BSDI.COM
for a uuencoded copy by mail.
File: bsdi.com:bidir.tar.Z
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
Here's my pet peeve. When pressing ctrl-alt-del in the normal kernel
it reboots (gasp)! I mean are we running MS-DOG here or what? :-)
Here's my patch so it at least asks. Wasn't this the default before?
Was there a reason for its removal?
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.ctrl.alt.del.no.reboot.patch
gray@antaire.com (Gray Watson)
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(GAMMA)
Here is a patch for the diskdefect command that fixes the above
problem (diskdefect -a corruped the bad-block table if no new bad
sectors were found).
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.diskdefect.patch
Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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(GAMMA)
The changes in the latest SCSI tape driver (gamma-4) that increased
the size of all buffers used for a scsi mode sense command upto 128
was not such a good idea.
It completely broke tape support for EISA 174x host adapters.
The problem is that first a mode sense command is used to fill
the buffer, then something is modified and the same buffer is
then passed to the mode select function. But the length passed
is sizeof buffer (always 128) instead of the ACTUAL length of
the buffer. This causes a data underrun error on the 1740 host
adapter that I use.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.esia.174x.tape.patch
erik@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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(GAMMA)
Aside from the fact that a number of programs will have to be
recompiled, is there a reason why the following patch should not be
applied?
This allows /etc/fstab to have '#' comments and blank lines.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.fstab.comment.patch
gray@antaire.com (Gray Watson)
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(GAMMA)
Here is an official patch for fstat.c in case anyone needs to use it.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.fstat.patch
Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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(GAMMA)
Join as shipped with gamma/4 will SEGV if you try to use it. THe code
was correct in gamma/3, but the fix must have slipped through the cracks.
This fix will make join function as advertised:
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.join.patch
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA)
We have had problems finding a spot for the ne2000. The problem in gamma4
is that it is blocked by the lp0/pe0 device on the standard LPT1 address
of 0x378 (ne0 is 360-37f). If the parallel port is present, ne0 will
not configure. The problem is that every reasonable address conflicts
with some standard device/address. Here are the main current choices:
300 conflicts with wt0
320 conflicts with aha0
340 conflicts with mcd0
360 conflicts with lp0/pe0
The plan for production is to add an mcd0 configuration at 334, allowing
ne0 to work at 340. I also plan to include an ne0 configuration at 320,
as lots of people are using that (with no Adaptec 154x, of course).
I have included diffs for the GENERIC config file in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
for anyone who would like to test this. Note that the ne0 config at
320 is not particularly safe if an Adaptec is present without the patches
I posted for if_ne.c last week. (It doesn't appear that neprobe would
hit the Adaptec registers, but I am not certain.)
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.ne2000.generic.kernel.conf.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
Here is the fix for NE-2000 clones that fail to configure with gamma4.
The new code has been tested on the clones that failed and on Novell
NE-1000 and NE-2000 cards. Let me know if anyone has cards that still fail.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.ne2000.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
Here is a fix for at least part of the problem causing various crashes
when using rundos and other programs that use the floppy drives.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.rundos.floppy.panic.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karel)
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(GAMMA)
This is a patch for the problem with scsi tape drives that cannot be
opened, printing the error message "st0: unsupported density selection".
An earlier fix was posted that was incompatible with some Exabyte drives.
This fix should work with all drives. Please let me know if there are
still any problems after applying this patch to /usr/src/sys/scsi/st.c.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.scsi.tape.exebyte.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
As distributed, the gamma.4 slattach program doesn't exit when it's
slip line is droped. The problem is that the process waiting for
HUP's has not issued a TIOCSCTTY to make it's controlling tty the
slip line; hence no HUP's are delivered when the carrier detect
drops.
The following patch to /usr/src/sbin/slattach/slattach.c solves
this problem:
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.slattach.patch
Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
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(GAMMA)
I gave a possible fix for slip hangs to a couple of people, but haven't
gotten any feedback on it. I would be interested to know if it solves
the problem you had. To the best of my knowledge, the problem is
actually in hardware, and it happens only with some com boards.
The com port sometimes loses a transmit-complete interrupt, and exhaustive
testing indicated that software never got the interrupt and it was not
pending. However, ISA-bus interrupts are not exactly robust.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.slip.hang.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
Several people have had a problem that resulted in a kernel protection
fault in the low-level handler for irq 7. In several cases this happened
when booting from a floppy. After staring at the instruction that causes
the fault for a while, I finally realized that I got bit by segmentation;
the failing instruction tries to modify kernel data space without having
switched to a kernel data selector. The following patch to
/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/icu.h should fix the problem.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.stray.interrupt.panic.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
Here are the diffs to make Taylor 1.03
[ftp.uu.net:/networking/uucp/taylor/taylor-uucp-1.03.tar.Z]
work with the serial device locking scheme under Gamma.4.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.taylor.uucp.patch
Alan B Clegg <abc@concert.net>
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(GAMMA)
The "hayes" entry for tip didn't seem to like my telebit too much, so I
took the telebit dialer from tip/slip (available from gatekeeper.dec.com, I
think) and added it to BSD/386 tip. The shar file below contains:
1. Diffs to the Makefile and acutab.c to add the telebit
2. The telebit dial program.
Files: bsdi.com:gamma4.telebit.tip.patch[1-2]
tom@usblues.rt.com
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(GAMMA)
Here are two fixes to gamma/4 (gee, am I the first?):
1. tex doesn't work as shipped. cmb10.tfm is missing from
/usr/contrib/lib/tex/fonts/cmfonts. I built it by going into
/usr/src/contrib/tex/fonts/cmfonts and doing the following:
/usr/contrib/bin/mf '\mode:=localfont;batchmode;mag:=magstep(0);input cmb10'
2. getpar.c is corrupt in /usr/src/games/trek. Here is the replacement:
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.tex.trek.patch
Tom Markson <tom@usblues.rt.com>
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(GAMMA)
Several people have had problems with crashes when modems produced character
input as they were being opened. Oddly enough, this problem did not show
up before gamma4, although the bug seems to have been present since the
alpha release. Someone proposed two different fixes earlier; I decided
to use this one, as it does not require changes to existing tty hardware
drivers or conventions. This patch should be applied to the file
/usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.tty.crash.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA)
I've always mourned the days of a simple 1 LOGFILE uucp system. The
more /var/log/uucp/uucico/hostsite stuff is big time overkill on my
system with 1 or 2 uucp sites. Of course, if I were running SCO, I'd
have to live with it. But, since we all bought BSD/386 so we'd have the
source, changes are possible.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.uucp.1logfile.patch
tom@usblues.rt.com
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(GAMMA)
Several people have had problems with the gamma4 driver for wt tape;
either the device did not configure, or the drive would hang on the
first use. Both problems have been traced to the same bug. Here
is the fix for /usr/src/i386/isa/wt.c. The patch also adds some
debugging code, and just in case, forces the irq to the default
if the drive does not interrupt when probed (which should not be
necessary now, but we will probably include in the next release).
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.wt.tape.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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There was a message on comp.unix.bsd a while back with a DOS program
that determined the real disk parameters on IDE disks. It works on
at least some ESDI and probably most other modern controllers as well.
It prints the CMOS geometry, asks the drive for its current geometry
and prints it, then resets the controller and asks again for the native
geometry. It then forces DOS to be rebooted, as the controller is
not in synch with the software. We may incorporate something like
this into disksetup in the future, but it is a bit tricky (not all
controllers necessarily support this). When I ran it, I discovered
that one of my drives was using a mapped geometry, although I hadn't
realized it.
The files aren't large, so I will include them here. The shar
contains the README file, the sources, and a uuencoded DOS executable.
This will not work under rundos.
File: bsdi.com:disk.geometry.dos.prog
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA 3)
[One of the most prolific kernel fixers I've seen on the list is
Yuval Yarom <yval@cs.huji.ac.il>. Several kernel patches against
gamma 3 have been sent to the list. I will try to list each
patch and the Subject line of the message with the name
that the file will have on the archive. Thanks Yuval! SMM]
gamma3.boottrap.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) traps on boot.
gamma3.execve.lock.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) deadlock in execve
gamma3.kernel.size.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) solution to kernel size problem
gamma3.memleak.deadlock.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Kernel memory leak in exec.
gamma3.mmap.range.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Wrong range check in mmap.
gamma3.msync.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) panic in msync
gamma3.munmap.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Wrong range check in munmap.
gamma3.physio.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Wrong address validation in physio.
gamma3.stack.alloc.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Stack allocation problem
gamma3.vmmap.anon.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Wrong caching of anonymous
memory regions
gamma3.pagermap.wait.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Deadlock in page daemon
gamma3.security.patch: Subject: Fix for a security hole in Gamma 3.
gamma3.sigsuspend.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Sigsuspend(2) problem.
gamma3.socket.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Several bugs in receive from socket.
gamma3.unp_discard.patch: Subject: (Gamma 3) Wrong access rights
handling in unix domain sockets.
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(GAMMA 4)
The ash bug which almost everyone seems to report is the one that makes
ash require a semicolon before 'do' in a 'for' loop if there is no 'in'
clause. Without the 'in' clause, there is no ambiguity about whether
the 'do' must be a keyword, so this seems to be reasonable, if
inconsistent, behavior. Here are some examples:
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.ash.for.patch
donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
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(GAMMA 4)
At least two of my audio CD's induce an infinite loop in mitsumi_probe().
Release:
Gamma.4 (0.9.4)
Repeat-By:
Insert the disk "Claude Bolling Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano
Trio, No. 2) (CBS records, catalog MK 42318). Run cdctl. Watch it
spend eternity frobbing with the disk.
Fix:
I don't know what this test in the code is for, but commenting
it out gets rid of the problem.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.cdrom.infinite.loop.patch
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
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(GAMMA 4)
Description:
The floppy controller is returning EINVAL instead of ENOSPC
when EOF is reached making multi-volume tar archives impossible.
Release:
0.9.4
Repeat-By:
tar -cMvf /dev/fd0 something-larger-than-the-floppy
Fix:
The below *seems* to work. I've not tested it much and don't
have time.
File: bsdi.com:gamma4.fd.ENOSPC.patch
gray@antaire.com (Gray Watson)
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(GAMMA 4)
I have the following problem with low density floppies:
I cannot access 360 or 720 KB floppies in my 1.2 MB 5.25 drive and 720 KB
floppies in my 1.44 MB 3.5 drive (I use the floppycontroler from
the adaptec 1542b).
Low density access works, if I use a typed device node, but not when I want
to use automatic density detection. The autodetection works for HD-floppies,
but fails for others. So the driver uses the first entry of a drive for low
density floppies (the HD entry) and the floppy access fails.
I dont know why the autodetection fails, but the following workaround works
for 720 KB in 1.44 drive and 360 KB in 1.2 drive. If you comment out the
line, which sets the first entry as default, the driver uses the last
entry as default, if autodetection fails. This is 360 KB for a 1.2 drive
and 720 Kb for a 1.44 drive. This Workaround does not work for 720 KB in
a 1.2 MB 5.25 drive, because the detection fails and the 360 KB entry is
used as default. HD floppy access works also with this code, because the
autodetection does not fail for HD-floppies.
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.floppy.lowdensity.workaround
"Christoph Koppe (Inf4 - hiwi)"
<chkoppe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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(GAMMA 4)
ftime(3) uses data returned by gettimeofday(2) to fill out the timeb
structure it is passed, this is a problem because per gettimeofday's
man page it does not fill out the timezone part. The attached ftime.c
does a call to localtime to get the added information. Just replace
/usr/src/lib/libcompat/ftime.c with what folows.
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.ftime.patch
nerd@percival.rain.com
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(GAMMA 4)
This m4 input:
define(msg, printf $1)
msg(("fmt", arg));
results in:
printf ("fmt" arg);
Notice the dropped comma between "fmt" and arg.
This is the patch for /usr/src/usr.bin/m4/main.c. This patch is going to
be dropped into the master source tree. Anyone that uses m4 might want
to try this to be sure it doesn't break anything else. I've run our m4
tests and everything works ok.
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.m4.patch
sanders@bsdi.com
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(GAMMA 4)
Here are the changes for the console driver to support multiple console
screens, done by Vadim Antonov. As reported earlier, this driver allows
multiple character-mode console sessions (default 8, can be changed with
"options NPCSCREENS=12", etc). X and rundos can still be used, but they
take over the entire console while running and it is not possible to switch
to another screen until they exit (or rundos is suspended). Output to
any of the virtual screens while X or rundos is using the display
will be discarded.
A shar file below includes the patches for the gamma4 console driver,
/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/pccons.c.
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.multiconsole.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA 4)
> > The termcap entries provided with the new console driver 'break' less, vi,
> > emacs, and probably lots of other stuff too.
> The new termcap entry for ibmpc3 is incorrect. Correct escape
> sequence for Insert Line should be al=\E[L.
Oops. You are right. Anyone who installed/installs the new driver should
use this corrected termcap. I'm not sure how that happened, but obviously
it happened after I had done most of my testing.
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.pc3termcap.patch
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA 4)
> At the end of the script I get this message
> stty: stdout appears redirected, but stdin is the control descriptor
> Is this normal?
There is a little bug in stty that causes this message to be printed
even when the "-f" flag is used. It's harmless but if it annoys you
here's the patch:
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.stty.message.patch
huntting@misc.glarp.com
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(GAMMA 4)
Ain't this insidious? This fix seems to make xview work reasonably well
(enough so that I can now work on the CDROM bugs in workman rather than
xview bugs in workman...watch this space for more details!).
Description:
syscall(2) doesn't work right. It leaves $sp off by a word,
which can lead to disaster when it's called repeatedly (as it is in
XView3.0).
Release:
Gamma.4 (0.9.4)
Repeat-By:
Write a program that has a local variable on the stack;
initialize it, then call syscall() repeatedly. Note that the value
eventually gets trashed when the stack works its way up over the variable.
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.syscall.patch
John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
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(GAMMA 4)
Seems xman has a problem. It appeared to have a problem with the MANPATH, but
in reality it was with the "cat" subdirectories. In looking at the source, it
appears that man.c requires MAN to be set to the subdirectory prefix which in
our case is "cat". However, vendor.h sets MAN to "man".
File: bsdi.com: gamma4.xman.patch
ektron1!wutt@uunet.uu.net (William Wuttke)
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If any of you have had to SLIP into a site with a terminal server
you know how difficult it can be to get the suplied startslip
program to function with anything but the "standard" bsd login
sequence.
The enclosed shar file has a perl script which can be "easily"
modified to deal with a wide range of send-expect login sequences.
It does not have a chit-chat config file, you must edit the script
itself. I've tried to make it easy to modify, but it's still perl
(the worlds most pathalogically unreadable computer language)...
The present config is used to dial in to the Annex where I work.
I sugest placing the "slipup" script in /usr/local/bin, and the
slipup.conf in /etc (if you place slipup.conf elsewhere, be shure
to change the pathname in the "slipup" script that reads it).
File: bsdi.com: huntting.slipup.perl
Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
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(GAMMA 4)
tmpnam() will return a filename in the form of "/var/tmp//tmp..."
because it assumes P_tmpdir (from stdio.h) does not end in a slash
(which it does).
For those who care here is a "graceful" patch -- or you can remove the
extra / from tmpnam.c. :-)
File: bsdi.com: tmpnam.patch
gray@antaire.com (Gray Watson)
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(GAMMA 4)
Fix to the w_char redefinition problem in Xlib.h.
File: bsdi.com : Xlib.h.patch.Z
rd@pixie.aii.com (Robert D. Thrush)
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(GAMMA 4)
I'd like to ask you to test the new version of VGA driver
on your VGA cards -- it does some trickery to save/restore
fonts and it is possible that some cards don't like that.
The changes are supposed to fix the problem with restoring
screen on exit from X on Trident and some other VGA cards.
I also added code for loading user font.
File: bsdi.com : antovov.vga.driver.Z
avg@uunet.uu.net (Vadim Antonov)
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(GAMMA 4)
I have had enough requests for the new 3C509 driver that I will use
multicast to reply. Here are the patches for /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/if_ef.c.
They fix three problems: there was a possible hang if there were excessive
collisions, some machines could not configure more than 1 card, and some
machines could not configure the 3C509 on a reboot without a power-up.
I have forgotten whether the 0.9.4.1 patches include this, but I think
the answer is "no".
A couple of folks asked about performance; I don't have performance
numbers (or a 3C509!), but several reports put it substantially ahead
of the other cards we support.
At least one person asked about the card for which we just added support.
It is the Intel EtherExpress 16.
File: bsdi.com : ethernet.3c509.patch.Z
karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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(GAMMA 4)
> I have a question about the return value from fflush. According to the
> manpage, fflush will fail if the stream is not open for writing.
> However, it fails when the stream is opened for reading and writing with
> mode "w+".
I thought I'd sent in this patch -- I'm pretty sure I did, but would need
to search through my archives to double check. Just in case, I'll CC this
to problems@bsdi.com, also. For those that want to fix it now, I include
a patch to /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/fflush.c below my signature.
File: bsdi.com : fflush.patch.Z
composer@beyond.dreams.org (Jeff Kellem)
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(GAMMA 4)
Check the 'speed' with stty. If it's 38,400 or higher, more gets
confused. If you're using xterm, the simple answer is to drop the
speed down to (say) 9600, since it makes no difference to anything
else. Otherwise you need to patch more...
File : bsdi.com : more.highspeed.patch
donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
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(GAMMA 4)
Followup to msgs(1) problem (bug #001975)
The fopen(fname, "a+") didn't actually work either like I thought it had.
Soo...opening for read/write ("r+"), and then opening for write ("w")
if that doesn't work (if the file doesn't exist) does the trick.
I tested it running msgs(1) a few times, and removing my .msgsrc, and
repeating the whole process a few times. I can't get it to fail anymore,
and here is my resultant patch:
File: bsdi.com : msgs.patch.Z
From: tod@vision.intel.com (Tod Oace)
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(GAMMA 4)
Fix to allow boot without a keyboard
In srt0.s, a call is made to kbd_reset. This call hangs unless the following
patch is applied to /sys/i386/stand/kbd.c. The patch will put an upper
bound on how long the code waits for the reset command to complete.
File: bsdi.com : no_kbd_boot.patch.Z
From: Robert Hagens <hagens@reston.ans.net>
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(GAMMA 4)
Another problem with sed. The gamma-4 sed failed the following sed
script found in the brand new GROFF 1.07 release (psstrip.sed)
#!/bin/sed -f
# Strip a PostScript prologue of unnecessary comments and white space.
/^%[%!]/b
s/^[ ][ ]*//
s/[ ][ ]*$//
s/%.*//
/^$/d
s/[ ]*\([][}/{]\)[ ]*/\1/g
The last line fails to compile, sed complaining about unbalanced []'s.
This is due to compile_delimited not really knowing the traditionally
rules about [] expressions (namely that inside a [s] expression, the first
character of s is allowed to be ] and that \ has no special meaning.
The following patch corrects this. I have a vague nasty feeling though
that we should run sed through a complete set of tests after this change.
I have done a few tests, but nothing VERY extensive.
File: bsdi.com : sed.patch.Z
From: root@eab.retix.com (Erik Forsberg)
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(GAMMA 4)
I found a problem in sort with a large file where it hits the end of the
sort buffer, and because of the way trecheaders are allocated, bufend could
be less than opos, so the memmove gets a negative length.
Context diffs follow:
File: bsdi.com : sort.large.file.patch.Z
From: Kent.Peacock@eng.sun.com (Kent Peacock [CONTRACTOR])
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(GAMMA 4)
Haven't seen mention of this, so i hope i'm not replicating something
obvious. All that's needed to get tcsh 6.03 up and running on BSD/386
is one small change - BSD/386 defines BSD4_4 but doesn't have the
"quad_t" type (yet;-)).
[ I believe that tcsh is back in the normal distribution for 1.0 SMM ]
File: bsdi.com : tcsh-6.03.patch.Z
From: sms@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com (Steven M. Schultz)
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(GAMMA 4)
Patch for "panic: vm_map_entry_create: out of map entries"
Several folks have run into this panic recently. The direct cause of
the panic is severe fragmentation of an internal kernel map, which
we haven't been able to reproduce when we try to cause it. One way
for it to happen is for the buffer cache to fill with lots of small files;
a news feed or NFS mounts with small rsize/wsize have both been seen to do
this under some circumstances. Here is a change for /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c
that alleviates the problem. If you have not seen this panic, you probably
don't need the fix.
File: bsdi.com : vm_map_entry_create.panic.patch
From: karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
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========================================================================
Subject: Section 4. BSDI Archive Sites
Date: Mon Apr 05 19:00:29 EST 1993
========================================================================
[ These are the sites that are currently willing to archive stuff for
the BSDI system. They are numbered and described below. Please
contact the person listed in the description with problems, not me. I
won't be able to help you. ]
1. nic.funet.fi
Please, if possible, ftp all binaries/sources/patches of BSD/386 to
nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100). There is plenty of disk space available
and I'm willing to try to keep things in order there.
The directory in nic is ~pub/unix/386ix/bsd386/incoming . I just got added
to beta list, after being reading the idle alpha list for a while, so
please tell me about the other archive sites containing bsd/386 material!
We have had this directory in nic since we got the alpha release, but the
only material I have had there is some xview3 patches.
Send me a note at <antsu@nic.funet.fi> , if you upload something to nic,
describing the bits you sent.
Happy hacking, Antti-Pekka
2. ftp.unm.edu
In addition, on the machine ftp.unm.edu is available via anon ftp.
It has a directory called pub/BSDI-386 (to hopefully cut some of the
confusion with 386BSD) and at the moment contains very little.
Any patches relating to BSD/386 that I receive (via email or
other means) will be place there. At the moment, I only have
~60 megs of space to deal with so I can't deal with too many
full sources, but we are working on a 2 gig ftp server and
when that becomes a reality, I don't think space will be
a problem.
Any patches posted to the beta list from this point on will
appear there, if you have posted a patch to the list in the
past, please mail it to me directly.
Steve Freed <sfreed@ariel.unm.edu>
3. bsdi.com
An archive is now available for programs, patches, information, and ports
for BSD/386 systems. The archive is at bsdi.com [153.39.128.11] in the
directories under "/bsdi.sw/sw". Please report problems with the site
to mccoole@bsdi.com or smm@acd4.acd.com. Sorry it took me so long to
get things going but I think that you will like it.
The archive includes the old postings from the beta and gamma mailing
lists and the new bsdi-users mailing list. Patches are on-line for
the gamma release of BSD/386. The beta patches will be removed in a
reorganization that will occur very soon.
Also available are whole ported programs or patches to some well known
packages to make them run under BSD/386. If you have software or patches
that you would like to contribute to the archive, please drop me a message.
Steve
4. ftp.uni-erlangen.de
ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/BSD/BSDI contains a mirror of the relevant/interesting
files on bsdi.com.
Dirk
5. ftp.dit.co.jp
For the Japanese BSDI users, ftp.dit.co.jp:/pub/bsd386 contains
a mirror of bsdi.com:/sw.
-- toku --
Yoshitaka Tokugawa Internet: toku@dit.co.jp
dit Co., Ltd. Yamada Bldg. 4F, 2-11-10 Iidabashi
Phone +813-3239-7240 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102 Japan