From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 22:03:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A021137B401; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net [68.14.60.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97D443F3F; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net) Received: from ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (conrads@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h3959APV000681; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:09:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost)h3959Aec000680; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 00:09:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:09:10 -0500 (CDT) Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: John Baldwin cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: fxp breakage X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 05:03:58 -0000 On 08-Apr-2003 John Baldwin wrote: > > On 08-Apr-2003 Conrad Sabatier wrote: >> I just cvsupped today (4/8/03) and built a clean world and kernel. The >> only problem I'm having now is that if I try to load the acpi module, >> the >> kernel panics as before in bus_dmamem_alloc(). Other than that, >> everything's fine. My kernel config even includes options >> DEVICE_POLLING >> and PAE. > > The acpi module will not work with a PAE kernel. The module assumes > physical addresses are 32-bits, but they are a different size with PAE. Bingo! Built a new kernel without PAE, and (as suggested by Steve Kargl) without "options MAXMEM", and now the acpi module is loading fine. No more panics at startup. It definitely pays to read these lists, doesn't it? :-) -- Conrad Sabatier - "In Unix veritas"