CFT update day 2

[Matthew Macy]

 ---- On Thu, 26 May 2016 16:08:03 -0700 Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> wrote ---- 
 > Letting you know, I had an error in detection.  I'm trying to get a change done before code slush, but I will circle back and provide a detailed report  

Thanks. I'm not going to make slush for the changes to sys to support this. If dates are interpreted as being UTC then it's already started.

-M



 >  
 > On May 23, 2016 4:12:52 AM EDT, Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote: 
 > > 
 > >The highlights for today are the following: 
 > > 
 > >Bug fixes: 
 > >- Will Andrews fixed attach for some laptops (such as the Carbon X1). 
 > >  The Carbon X1 has a quirky BIOS that doesn't allow the OS to 
 > >  enumerate the GPU's interrupt. 
 > >- Will Andrews identified a conditionally uninitialized return in 
 > >  idr_find that could lead to a panic in some cases. 
 > >- Fixed a panic in mtrr_del frequently seen when attach failed. 
 > >- Sleep/wakeups with interrupts are largely implemented correctly 
 > >  now. Previously a polling 10ms sleep was used. I'm still 
 > >  concerned that the code really needs to be level-triggered. 
 > > 
 > >Cleanups: 
 > >- Logging is now enabled for the first 10s after attach unless 
 > >  dev.drm.drm_debug_keep=1. 
 > >- Unimplemented warnings are off by default. 
 > > 
 > >As of this moment the latest USB image is: 
 > > http://www.bsddesktop.com/images/cftdisk_2016052307.img.xz 
 > > 
 > >The USB image now has sync disabled on var. This should improve 
 > >responsiveness for most people with slow USB pen drives. If 
 > >you're having issues that require retaining logs you'll need 
 > >to "zfs set sync=enabled zrootusb/var". 
 > > 
 > >The USB image now includes kde4 and xfce. It is also much larger, for  
 > >this iteration you will need a 16GB USB key. The next one will probably 
 > >not be quite so large. If size is a common problem let me know. It's  
 > >difficult to buy a USB key that is less than 16GB today. 
 > > 
 > >joeuser's .xinitrc is configured to start xfce with  startx. To start 
 > >kde  
 > >run: service kdm4 onestart. 
 > > 
 > >Note that the image name has changed. The most recent should be 
 > >self-evident in: http://www.bsddesktop.com/images  
 > > 
 > >Helpful hint: use a 1MB blocksize for dd and run gpart recover 
 > >to fix label warnings. Assuming your USB pen drive shows up as 
 > >/dev/da0 and cftdisk image is the one I just posted: 
 > > 
 > >unxz -f cftdisk_2016052307.img.xz; dd if=cftdisk_2016052307.img 
 > >of=/dev/da0 bs=1M; gpart recover da0 
 > > 
 > >And as a reminder, if you're having problems with X on the USB 
 > >key, try disabling it by moving /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf 
 > >somewhere else on your file system. 
 > > 
 > >If using the github repo, make sure you're using the drm-next-4.6 
 > >branch. 
 > > 
 > >Cheers. 
 > > 
 > >-M 
 > > 
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