Re: ports/55928: vmware2 broken on -STABLE, presumably by PAE import

From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery_at_ece.cmu.edu)
Date: 09/08/03

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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 07:36:51 -0400

    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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