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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!analog.com!analog.com!news.analog.com!mike.long From: mike.long@analog.com (Mike Long) Subject: Re: Questions about NetBSD/current (i386 mostly) In-Reply-To: lruppert@avalon.syr.edu's message of 21 Jul 1995 00:00:43 -0400 Message-ID: <MIKE.LONG.95Jul21101242@cthulhu.analog.com> Lines: 58 Sender: usenet@analog.com (News pseudo-user usenet) Reply-To: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> Organization: Analog Devices CPD References: <3un8pb$rbh@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 14:12:42 GMT In article <3un8pb$rbh@newstand.syr.edu> lruppert@avalon.syr.edu (Lou Ruppert) writes: >First of all, is there any command available that is equivelant to the >Linux command 'free'? 'free' tells how much total memory and swap the >machine has, and how much is being used. Last time I tried NetBSD ( a >year ago) there was apparently no such command. If there's another >way to get that info, I'd be interested in that too. I think 'pstat -s' gives you something close to that. It lists the swap devices in use, and indicates (in %) how full each is. >Has anyone successfully compiled the NAS audio server with a >soundblaster pro card? I use this server all the time on the >machine, and would be lost without it. NetBSD does not use Voxware, so NAS won't work until someone ports it. >Is there support for an ELF binary format yet? Any plans for one in >the future? I have gotten comfortable with the ease of creating >shared libs under ELF. If not, is there a straightforward way to >create them under NetBSD? NetBSD has the ability to run both Linux and SVR4 ELF binaries if the kernel is appropriately configured. The standard compiler can't generate them though. NetBSD has its own shared library system. It is not hard to create a shared library, though. >I am looking to buy a notebook computer in the near future too. What >sort of success do people have running NetBSD on those? Is there >support for PCMCIA yet? Pocket Ethernet Adapters? How about the >power management features some of them have? PCMCIA is not yet supported by the standard system, although there are some users who have written support for it. Take a lot at ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/NetBSD/contrib/pcmcia0.7-cur.tgz. Note that it is designed to work with NetBSD-current, not NetBSD 1.0. >What sort of documentation is there for the /proc and /kern >filesystems? I was interested in programming stuff that used them >before, but couldn't find any formal documentation besides the source >code itself. Like Linux, you have to RTFS. >What kind of unofficial patches are there floating around? One of the >things I liked about Linux was the variety of different personal >tweaks that could be added that were written as patches by different >people outside the kernel. Is there a list of such patches available? I don't know of any such list. -- Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com> http://www.shore.net/~mikel VLSI Design Engineer finger mikel@shore.net for PGP public key Analog Devices, CPD Division CCBF225E7D3F7ECB2C8F7ABB15D9BE7B Norwood, MA 02062 USA assert(*this!=opinionof(Analog));