On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:36:47AM -0400, Andrew Atrens wrote:
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> I preload the module, and during boot I see a panic when it attempts to
> initialise. 100% reproducible. The panic seems to happen in
> pmap_kthread... (mumble) ... I got this from a ddb 'trace' command.
As I recall, with PAE
Any module compiled without PAE will probably panic a PAE kernel. (See recent
threads about pnc and rl ethernet drivers). Given the fragility of the module
build process, a good rule of thumb might be "never use modules in a PAE
kernel (or an INVARIENTS kernel, or)".
At the very least, y