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Date:      Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:13:46 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        re@freebsd.org, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPSEC/crypto is broken in FreeBSD/powerpc 7.0-RELEASE!
Message-ID:  <47CCDA8A.60004@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <723D012C-7907-4CFC-B134-C5E5A0B486D9@mac.com>
References:  <47CCB187.8070808@FreeBSD.org> <723D012C-7907-4CFC-B134-C5E5A0B486D9@mac.com>

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears to be that "options IPSEC" along with "device crypto" 
>> breaks FreeBSD/powerpc kernel badly. When enabling these options, 
>> apparently kernel doesn't perform any initialization tasks (I don't 
>> see usual probe/init sequence output) but jumps straight into root fs 
>> mounting after initing crypto(4) and ipsec(4), which is not usable 
>> since no devices has been attached. Keyboard is not working either.
>
> The problem is with device crypto. It attaches to nexus(4) and
> expects to be the only child. As you can see from the log, all
> children of nexus suddenly become instantiations of cryptosoft(4)
> rather then the usual drivers that attach.
>
> The swcr_probe() function should check that the device it gets
> is really the one created for it.
>

Don't know about "expects to be the only child" but I did was jhb said 
was right.  If you know otherwise please fix it.

    Sam




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