From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 21 23:39:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rumba.clave.gr.jp (rumba.clave.gr.jp [202.248.115.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627EF37B40E for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mac@clave.gr.jp) Received: from localhost (rumba.clave.gr.jp [202.248.115.186]) by rumba.clave.gr.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W) with ESMTP id PAA83308; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:39:10 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:37:26 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20010822.153726.126569560.mac@clave.gr.jp> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: peter@wemm.org Subject: Re: 4.4-RC kernel can't boot on vmware From: Masahide -mac- NODA In-Reply-To: <20010820073103.142BD3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20010819.210151.74757516.mac@clave.gr.jp> <20010820073103.142BD3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Now, I cvsup RELENG_4 again(08/22 13:00 JST) and make kernel on vmware guest OS. It works fine! Why? I don't know, but, I'm happy. :) Probably, recent pci commit has some effect.... Thank you! Peter! From: Peter Wemm Subject: Re: 4.4-RC kernel can't boot on vmware Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 00:31:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20010820073103.142BD3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> peter> > peter> The only effect that the commit changed that is not masked by peter> > peter> the CPU_ENABLE_SSE that I know about is the change to the pcb peter> > peter> structure layout. I would like to know if the following peter> > peter> (UNTESTED) patch has any effect: peter> > peter> > peter> Index: npx.h peter> > peter> > I test this patch for cvsuped 4.4-RC kernel, compiled without peter> > CPU_ENABLE_SSE option. It works fine! (fpu.ko fail to compile) peter> peter> This is bad news. :-( It looks like vmware "knows" the layout of the pcb peter> structure and is breaking when it doesn't recognize it anymore. :-( peter> peter> I've got a query in with the vmware folks. -- mac@clave.gr.jp/mac@jp.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message