HEADS UP: fxp breakage

[Conrad Sabatier]

On 08-Apr-2003 John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 08-Apr-2003 Conrad Sabatier wrote:
>> I just cvsupped today (4/8/03) and built a clean world and kernel.  The
>> only problem I'm having now is that if I try to load the acpi module,
>> the
>> kernel panics as before in bus_dmamem_alloc().  Other than that,
>> everything's fine.  My kernel config even includes options
>> DEVICE_POLLING
>> and PAE.
> 
> The acpi module will not work with a PAE kernel.  The module assumes
> physical addresses are 32-bits, but they are a different size with PAE.

Bingo!  Built a new kernel without PAE, and (as suggested by Steve Kargl)
without "options MAXMEM", and now the acpi module is loading fine.  No more
panics at startup.

It definitely pays to read these lists, doesn't it?  :-) 

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Conrad Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"