Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 04:40:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/55928: vmware2 broken on -STABLE, presumably by PAE import Message-ID: <200309081140.h88BeJCq015126@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/55928; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, vsilyaev@mindspring.com, stable@FreeBSD.org, luoqi@FreeBSD.org, jake@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/55928: vmware2 broken on -STABLE, presumably by PAE import Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:36:51 -0400 On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 05:21, Anders Nordby wrote: > Your patch makes VmWare2 build, but it doesn't make it work: I mentioned that in the bug report (and also said "almost certainly wrong"...). > Oh, and FreeBSD gets unstable with these patches of yours. I've seen > several hard hangs. I wouldn't have noticed as my FreeBSD was unstable anyway; this was before any patches for the PAE code appeared, so my machine was crashing every few hours anyway. :/ In any case, I had already guessed from the type change away from pointers that just using the provided values would do the wrong thing. I was hoping that getting the module to compile would at least produce some useful diagnostics before the incorrect page manipulations trashed too much of kernel memory.... (I am no kernel hacker, and in particular know approximately nothing about FreeBSD's memory management or how the PAE import changed it.) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ. KF8NH URGENT! E-xpedient nuked APK subdomains; kf8nh.apk.net is DEAD. Sorry.
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