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

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

The following reply was made to PR ports/55928; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, vsilyaev at mindspring.com,
	stable at FreeBSD.org, luoqi at FreeBSD.org, jake at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/55928: vmware2 broken on -STABLE, presumably by PAE
	import
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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