From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 20 0:31:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4830537B416 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7K7V3M67537 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142BD3811; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Masahide -mac- NODA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-RC kernel can't boot on vmware In-Reply-To: <20010819.210151.74757516.mac@clave.gr.jp> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:31:03 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010820073103.142BD3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Masahide -mac- NODA wrote: > peter> The only effect that the commit changed that is not masked by > peter> the CPU_ENABLE_SSE that I know about is the change to the pcb > peter> structure layout. I would like to know if the following > peter> (UNTESTED) patch has any effect: > > peter> Index: npx.h > > I test this patch for cvsuped 4.4-RC kernel, compiled without > CPU_ENABLE_SSE option. It works fine! (fpu.ko fail to compile) This is bad news. :-( It looks like vmware "knows" the layout of the pcb structure and is breaking when it doesn't recognize it anymore. :-( I've got a query in with the vmware folks. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message