Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  > I just put get_user_pages-handle-VM_IO.patch back and reverted
> >  > dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch - I'll report back when it has compiled. 
> > 
> >  Ok, 2.6.8.1-mm2 minus dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch fixes the "cannot
> >  allocate memory" problem. 
> 
> Thanks for working that out.
> 
> Strange.  I'd have assumed that the Fedora kernels include that patch.

we do. Maybe you have an older (rare) vmware version ???

question is wtf vmware is doing with that memory.. it's outside the bios
area after all.... petr?

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