Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:05:57 -0400 From: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists@webtent.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: page fault while in kernel mode Message-ID: <1224615957.8122.75.camel@columbus.webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <20081021184711.GA37448@icarus.home.lan> References: <1224445801.6926.0.camel@laptop.webtent.org> <200810201345.35248.jhb@freebsd.org> <1224550327.21638.2.camel@laptop.webtent.org> <200810211203.44931.jhb@freebsd.org> <1224614122.8122.62.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <20081021184711.GA37448@icarus.home.lan>
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On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The drivers which don't work are listed in the /sys/i386/conf/PAE > file. They're prefixed by the word "nodevice", which tells the > kernel config reader "DO NOT build this device, because it won't > work". > > You will need to take the "nodevice" lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and > put them into your kernel config file. (There are alternative methods > such as using "include" directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep > this explanation simple.) > > Make sense now? :-) Perfect sense now, believe it or not I was beginning to think along these lines as I was doing some searching and found 'device adv' in my config file and there was a description of the hardware it was for, which I don't have. Thanks for the clarification, now let's see if I can get this build done...thanks to all! -- Robert
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