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Comment on Debian kFreeBSD in QEMU-KVM by maqifrnswa

maqifrnswa — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:05:42 +0000

Thanks! I found I needed to do:

auto em0
iface em0 inet dhcp

instead of re0 in /etc/network/interfaces. Took me hours searching to find this post, and a quick ifconfig showed me that it was em0 – so we’re’ up and running now!

Comment on Debian kFreeBSD in QEMU-KVM by johnw

johnw — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:23:06 +0000

mouse can not work …. :(

Comment on Debian kFreeBSD in QEMU-KVM by darmanex

darmanex — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:33:22 +0000

nice post bro… :D

Comment on Debian kFreeBSD in QEMU-KVM by ibuclaw

ibuclaw — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:39:14 +0000

Thanks for the update!

Comment on Debian kFreeBSD in QEMU-KVM by witek

witek — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:42:25 +0000

gdm3 is currently broken in kfreebsd. It constantly starts Xorg servers. Install xdm and make it default, then it works :)

Comment on What’s Bugging GDC? by ibuclaw

ibuclaw — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:17:33 +0000

That would require 64bit ASM support I’m afraid. Which is not as difficult as it sounds (LDC’s 64bit inline ASM is forked from GDC’s 32bit implementation, and requires just a few dozen changes to port it back), but will probably wait until later to get the nice features in.

Comment on What’s Bugging GDC? by caedes

caedes — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:29:24 +0000

Sounds reasonable, thanks for your great work :-)

Btw: Would it be difficult to support std.cpuid on AMD64 machines, given that it’s just a pimped i386 so the assembler commands to get the CPU infos are probably similar?

Comment on What’s Bugging GDC? by ibuclaw

ibuclaw — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:22:55 +0000

My initial work will be to get D1 done and dusted for being up to date with upstream. Currently bombing through that, and can expect that done over the next fortnight.

Only then, I will then turn my attention to D2. And yes, it is horribly outdated in comparison – currently at 2.015, which is about 2-3 years out of date to my watch.

Comment on What’s Bugging GDC? by caedes

caedes — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:59:50 +0000

Hi Iain,

I decided today to try out D2 and compiled gdc-4.3 with D2 support.. It did build almost painless (had to change two little things to get it working on my AMD64-Box: internal/object.d has two “alias bool bit;” statements, that’s one to many and std/cpuid.d for non-x86 needs to be fixed in lines 388-391 – the functions should return string instead of char[]), but when I wanted to try it, it seemed horribly outdated (libphobos2 has no ranges for example).
Is only libphobos2 outdated or also the compiler itself?
What are the plans regarding future D2 support, now that it’s (almost?) stable and Andrei Alexandrescu’s “The D Programming Language” is available?

Cheers,
- Daniel

Comment on What’s Bugging GDC? by caedes

caedes — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:43:08 +0000

Yeah, I’ll try the new version when it enters sid (I hope the packages work in squeeze so I don’t have to build the gdc and gcc packages myself ;))

You’re probably right about taking on a difficult project, but with my limited spare time it’s difficult to get into a complex project before something else that is more important, has to be done (university takes up most of my time).