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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:59:45 -0400
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To:        Rob MacGregor <freebsd.macgregor@blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lnc0 in VmWare doesn't work
Message-ID:  <20040817175945.GP980@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200408171533.i7HFXMw1025005@the-macgregors.org>
References:  <20040817142818.GO980@green.homeunix.org> <200408171533.i7HFXMw1025005@the-macgregors.org>

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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:33:23PM +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 17, 2004 3:28 PM, Brian Fundakowski Feldman
> <mailto:green@freebsd.org> danced on the keyboard and produced:
> > Why aren't you reading what I posted?  If lnc doesn't work,
> > it's probably
> > because there's some extra constraint on the usable memory range that
> > is incorrectly specified in the driver.  You should try to get VMWare
> > to give you information on that, since you're a customer.
> 
> Ah, my bad.  I did read what you posted, but saw another post that reported a
> breakage, but didn't appear to reference VMWare.
> 
> Having a closer look, it *does* reference VMWare.  I'll go flag the bug up on
> their boards.  Sorry.

Thanks; Occam's razor says that this is almost certainly due to the fact
that the new contigmalloc allocates from the top instead of the bottom
of the range you give it.

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