From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Jan 21 22:32:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA17845 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:32:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA17839 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id RAA13828; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:02:04 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701220632.RAA13828@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: VM86 (was Re: MAXMEM...) In-Reply-To: from Jonathan Lemon at "Jan 21, 97 11:27:25 pm" To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:02:03 +1030 (CST) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, sef@kithrup.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Lemon stands accused of saying: > > > > (If anyone does want to help; change the size of the sigcontext struct, > > recompile your kernel, and then come back with an enumerated list of > > other things that need to be changed to stop it from crashing. We > > could _really_ use some help here.) > > Hm. I added two integers to the end of the sigcontext struct in > machine/signal.h, and recompiled the kernel. I've been running X, PPP, > etc, (as I type now) on this kernel for the last hour or so. Is there > something in particular I should do to force it to crash? Er, ok. Sean? Try growing the trapframe struct as well, as per the vm86 patches; perhaps there's an interaction issue? If you can spend a little time pursuing this (I have none at the moment 8( ), perhaps Sean can feed you stuff... > Jonathan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[