Broken kernel compile on 5.1-RELEASE / 5-CURRENT (SMP, PAE & scsi)

[Mark Sergeant]

Ohh bugger. I suppose I'll have to live without PAE then. Thanks anyway.

Cheers,

Mark

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:19, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 19 Aug, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > 	When trying to compile a kernel for my 8 cpu DELL 8450's I recieve an
> > extremly puzzling error, I get a bunch of errors when compiling a kernel
> > that has the following options in it...
> > 
> > options     WITNESS
> > options     NETSMB
> > options     NETSMBCRYPTO
> > options     LIBMCHAIN
> > options     LIBICONV
> > options     PAE
> > options     SMP                     
> > options     APIC_IO
> > 
> > Without  PAE SMP or APIC_IO the kernel will compile fine. With these
> > options I get the following error when compiling the sym scsi driver.
> 
> Take a look at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PAE.  It says:
> 
> # What follows is a list of drivers that are normally in GENERIC, but either
> # don't work or are untested with PAE.  Be very careful before enabling any
> # of these drivers.  Drivers which use DMA and don't handle 64 bit physical
> # address properly may cause data corruption when used in a machine with more
> # than 4 gigabytes of memory.
> 
> and under this comment it lists the sym and usb drivers.
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