Failure to rebuild x11/nvidia-driver on head at r233697

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 30 21:07:46 UTC 2012


On Friday, March 30, 2012 12:41:12 pm David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:18:58PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > ...
> > I've sent an e-mail to the NVIDIA driver author about how best to fix 
this.  
> > You can just change the driver to use VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHEABLE instead of 
> > VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHED for now.
> > ....
> 
> Thanks; I'd need to make it conditional on something relevant, as I'm
> also building under stable/8 & stable/9.

You can actually use that on 8 and 9 as well.  I think it's a likely a bug
that it used VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHED in the first place and that it should have
been using VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHEABLE all along.  (Which is why I've renamed
the obscure and not really useful VM_MEMATTR_UNCACHED.)

> My next scheduled build isn't for another 16 hours or so, so I'll sit
> tight for now, and take evasive action as necessary.  Of course, if
> danfe@ wants a tester, I'm certainly game.  :-}
> 
> (Besides, I'm actively using the machine, you see.... :-})
> 
> Peace,
> david
> -- 
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John Baldwin


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