Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:35:49 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <myevmenk@exodus.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: options GEOM and NODEVFS Message-ID: <3DBDC9D5.9556C5CD@exodus.net> References: <20021028222612.902EB2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > > Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > > > p.p.s. i need NODEVFS to run vmware2 (/dev/rtc is not > > DEVFS friendly). > > This should take only a few minutes to fix by somebody who knows what they > are doing. I'd do it, but I do not have vmware and have no desire to start. > > rtc.c already has the make_dev() calls, but they are in the wrong place. > They need to be moved from rtc_attach() (called by rtc_open()) to > init_module() and replace the cdevsw_add that is there. cdevsw_add and > cdevsw_remove should be completely removed. This set of changes will work > on 4.x too, so there are no big portability issues. > > Some of the folks on freebsd-emulation may be able to do it. yes, just like i said, i can (and probably will) do it. also there are few patches floating around. the problem is that none of these patches made it the tree :( thanks, max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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