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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:15:20 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To:        Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
Cc:        walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia module panics today's kernel [03-03-03]
Message-ID:  <3E64C308.4060904@btc.adaptec.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030304143536.GA63673@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <3E64335A.60408@myrealbox.com> <20030304143536.GA63673@elvis.mu.org>

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Maxime Henrion wrote:
> walt wrote:
> 
>>My mini 'disaster' of earlier today was caused by the nvidia kernel
>>module being autoloaded at boot, which causes an immediate kernel panic.
>>
>>The newest kernel seems fine until I try to load the module manually,
>>at which time I still get the kernel panic even after re-compiling
>>the module.
>>
>>Maxime, it looks like the nvidia module will need to be sculpted one
>>more time.   :-(
> 
> 
> Yes, the cdevsw initialization scheme and the driver needs to be updated
> accordingly.  I've updated my patch at :
> 
> 	http://mu.org/~mux/patches/nvidia.patch
> 
> Cheers,
> Maxime
> 
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Maybe the kernel driver portion of the nvidia driver set should be
imported into /sys/contrib?  It seems to be breaking quite often at
the hands of people who usually are good about updating all drivers
in the tree.

Scott


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