On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:29:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm trying to get vmware3 working on FreeBSD RELEASE 7.0 for i386 > I've resolved every compilation problem except one: > the driver.c in vmware3 requires the "avail_end" variable > in 6.2's /usr/include/machine/pmap.h > but is missing from 7.0's /usr/include/machine/pmap.h > > The vmware3 code goes like this: > > r = malloc(sizeof *r, M_DEVBUF, M_WAITOK); > if (r == NULL) return ENOMEM; > if (avail_end > ISA_DMA_BOUNCE_THRESHOLD) > high = trunc_page(ISA_DMA_BOUNCE_THRESHOLD); > else > high = trunc_page(avail_end); > > It turns out "avail_end" was removed from /usr/include/machine/pmap.h > by revision 1.125, whose commit message reads: > > The global variable avail_end is redundant and only used once. > Eliminate it. Make avail_start static to the pmap on amd64. > (It no longer exists on other architectures.) > > So it appears that we can still get the value represented by > the old avail_end variable, but I don't know anything about the kernel > and I don't understand that comment. Could some kind soul help me > decipher that so I can try to get vmware3 compilable again?
I think you can use "ptoa(Maxmem) - round_page(MSGBUF_SIZE)", the ptoa(Maxmem) being the thing written during dmesg as: real memory = 1039007744 (990 MB), I think its exported as hw.realmem sysctl hope that helps.. let us know about your VMWare experiences! roman _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
