From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 03:04:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F7E16A403 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:04:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E2343D5C for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leafy7382@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so4414929pye for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:04:06 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WokbBXSXKeHnzj9y+qVMyt1JmPsPDmXFQhshOjeijH0IYrrkDjQvqoTIdcqNYO6icXzp1VmT47q8vfz35RSE2J2vtGr8293uUeI2cOTPm5xYH8lc/HVdnRLpnnqiSzUwX8QMcQQzCIsel87gHsldLWdqaLiDOBZBPh6u6oYszCY= Received: by 10.35.41.14 with SMTP id t14mr9258043pyj; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.124.18 with HTTP; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:04:05 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" To: "Bill Blue" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Polling and em0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:04:07 -0000 On 9/17/06, Bill Blue wrote: > polling(4) says that supported devices include em(4) and that polling support is turned on and off with ifconfig's 'polling' option. But ifconfig doesn't seem to recognize that option either as a standalone request or with the initial em0 setup at boot. > > This is after a source cvsup (releng=6 for the frozen for 6.2 sources) yesterday and buildworld + buildkernel. em support is compiled in the kernel rather than loaded. Mobo is a Supermicro P4SCT-0 with Intel 875 chipset. > > Is this a known issue that I haven't found references to, or perhaps something related to my specific configuration? You need polling support in the kernel, you can look at NOTES for POLLING option. Cheers, Jiawei Ye -- "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then to the end user it's a duck, and end users have made it pretty clear they want a duck; whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant."