lnc0 in VmWare doesn't work

[George V. Neville-Neil]

At Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:11:38 +0100,
Rob MacGregor wrote:
> 
> Sergey Matveychuk [sem at freebsd.org] danced on the keyboard and produced:
> 
> > Vitaly Markitantov wrote:
> > 
> >> I found what is the cause of problem with lnc0.
> >> it's commited vm_contig.c from Thu Aug 5 14:54:12 PDT 2004 (
> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-August/028854.html )
> >> 
> >> I set in  /boot/loader.conf
> >> vm.old_contigmalloc="1"
> >> and all stuff works fine.
> > 
> > It does not work for me. I guess if you'll rebuild your
> > kernel with new
> > drivers it could stops work for you too.
> 
> Happy to say that it did however work for me - source from this morning (circa
> 09:00 GMT) and VMWare 4.5.2.

Not to say "me too" but "me too."

So, do we need to fix the lance driver to handle this?  Will this bite
us easily on other drivers?

Later,
George