[Plex86-devel] Re: [plex86] plex86.o module problems on K 2.4.10

[Thomas Breitfeld]

Hi Michael,

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael McConnell" <address@hidden>
>
> Taking this off-list as it's not a Plex86 issue.

Oops, why you think so?
It's a rather hard show stopper that hapens with the plex86 module
across all different hardwares I've tried so far. It seems to be a principle 
problem of the magic for figuring out the physical pages of the
loaded plex86 module.

But maybe I was not specific enough: the error is as follows

    ./misc/../kernel/plex86.o: init_module: Invalid argument
    Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including 
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
    The kernel module failed to load!

And /var/log/messages/shows

    Apr 24 20:59:51 schlepptop kernel: plex86: retrieve_vm_pages: ret with n=0
    Apr 24 20:59:51 schlepptop kernel: retrieve_vm_pages returned error.
    Apr 24 20:59:51 schlepptop kernel: retrieve_monitor_pages returned error

The code failes at the the following line of retrieve_vm_pages 

    /* If page isn't present, assume end of area */
    if ( !pde->fields.P || !pte->fields.P )

This condition is true for the very first page that is checked because
pte->raw equals to 0

No idea why, can anybody enlight me on that??

Thanks,
Thomas.

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Thomas Breitfeld wrote:
> 
> > Hello World,
> > anybody knows what the Problem with kernel 2.4.10 is??
> > The module init code can't figure out the physical pages of its own memory,
> > so module loading failes!
> > Any known remedy?
> 
> If you have, say, 192Mb of memory, at the LILO prompt type:
> 
> linux mem=192M


Ps.: this doesn't help!

 
> if that works, add to the top of /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
> append="mem=192M"
> 
> ...assuming SuSE uses lilo - I'm not a SuSE user....
> 
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