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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:33:48 +0900
From: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 server controls impaired and steps taken before
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On 5/11/05, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> > dma may be your friend.  it makes things 100 times quicker on fast mach=
ines.
> >
> > brucee
>=20
> my experiences are definitely with dma on :)

If I take that literally, then I can expect my a working machine
within 200 days with dma turned off. ;)

Thanks for the suggestion, Brucee, I'll turn dma on. I'll add it to
the installation guide.
Andrey, thanks for your help too.

Kenji Arisawa sent me a pccpuf config that has worked well for him and
that I plan to use.
Should anyone be following this thread and anticipates using the
fossil+venti option during an install, this should help. Thanks go to
Kenji Arisawa for the following config:

The configuration(/sys/src/9/pc/pccpuf) is as following:

dev
        root
        cons
        arch
        pnp             pci
        env
        pipe
        proc
        mnt
        srv
        dup
        rtc
        ssl
        tls
        bridge          log
        sdp             thwack unthwack
        cap
        kprof
        fs

        ether           netif
        ip              arp chandial ip ipv6 ipaux iproute netlog
nullmedium pktmedium ptclbsum386 inferno

        draw            screen vga vgax
        mouse           mouse
        vga

        sd
        floppy          dma

        uart
        usb

link
        ether2000       ether8390
        ether2114x      pci
        ether79c970     pci
        ether8003       ether8390
        ether8139       pci
        ether82543gc    pci
        ether82557      pci
        ether83815      pci
        etherelnk3      pci
        etherga620      pci
        etherigbe       pci ethermii
        etherrhine      pci ethermii
        ethersink
        ethermedium
        netdevmedium
        loopbackmedium
        usbuhci

misc
        archmp          mp apic

        uarti8250
        uartpci         pci

        sdata           pci sdscsi
        sd53c8xx        pci sdscsi

        vga3dfx         +cur
        vgaark2000pv    +cur
        vgabt485        =3Dcur
        vgaclgd542x     +cur
        vgaclgd546x     +cur
        vgact65545      +cur
        vgacyber938x    +cur
        vgaet4000       +cur
        vgahiqvideo     +cur
        vgai81x +cur
        vgamach64xx     +cur
        vgamga2164w     +cur
        vgamga4xx       +cur
        vganeomagic     +cur
        vganvidia       +cur
        vgargb524       =3Dcur
        vgas3           +cur vgasavage
        vgat2r4         +cur
        vgatvp3020      =3Dcur
        vgatvp3026      =3Dcur
        vgavmware       +cur

ip
        il
        tcp
        udp
        ipifc
        icmp
        icmp6
        gre
        ipmux
        esp
        rudp

port
        int cpuserver =3D 1;

boot cpu boot #S/sdC0/
        tcp
        il
        local

bootdir
        bootpccpuf.out boot
        /386/bin/ip/ipconfig
        /386/bin/auth/factotum
        /386/bin/disk/kfs
        /386/bin/fossil/fossil
        /386/bin/venti/venti

--

-vester