Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:59:48 -0600 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: silby@silby.com Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware 3 changes commited, rtc updated as well Message-ID: <20040313225948.GA11676@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
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Am I correct in surmising that your changes to allow dynamic device numbering are a prelude to introducing device cloning? Sean >I just went ahead and committed the changes I had posted to the list >early today. If you have a working installation of vmware + rtc, >there's >no need to update. Here's my commit message, which sums up the >changes: > >---- >A slew of changes to allow vmware3 to work on 5.x with dynamic >device >numbering while not breaking 4.x compatibility: > >- Stop using device nodes in /usr/compat/linux/dev and instead rely >on the linuxaltor passing though to /dev >- Create needed device nodes in /dev (on 4.x) >- Account for a change in falloc's semantics that was preventing >the vmmon module from being unloaded on 5.1+ machines. >---- > >Of course, testing would still be appreciated if you have the time. I >tested on 4.9-stable and 5.2-current, but there are many ways in which I >still could have broken the port. :) > >Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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