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Date:      Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:36:51 -0400
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
Subject:   Re: ports/55928: vmware2 broken on -STABLE, presumably by PAE import
Message-ID:  <1063021011.53800.15.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030908092155.GC28554@totem.fix.no>
References:  <200308241114.h7OBETsI004360@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> <20030908092155.GC28554@totem.fix.no>

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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.)

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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
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