Re: kern/58195: vmt(4) driver conflicts with open-vm-tools

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From: PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/58195: vmt(4) driver conflicts with open-vm-tools
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:42:28 +0900

 On 4/26/24 16:50, matthew green wrote:
 > 
 >   FWIW, you can 'drvctl -d vmt0' to detach the driver.
 >   
 >   i once had to do this and re-load it when it was log-spewing
 >   in my netbsd guest after a long long uptime.
 
 I didn't know we could do it! Thanks!
 That means we don't need a sysctl knob for this. We just need to 
 implement cpu_rescan() and cpu_childdetached() for aarch64. Here's my 
 updated patch:
 https://github.com/depressed-pho/netbsd-src/commit/d062d13a53328c0bee643d585411a516f88a512e