Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:14:41 -0800 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R Message-ID: <2a41acea0912021514r2d44dd33n4c364518d7fe1703@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0912021249w1aed8e83kf89ceb1e6041edaf@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091130.170451.24460248.hrs@allbsd.org> <2a41acea0911301119j1449be58y183f2fe1d1112a68@mail.gmail.com> <20091201.102925.218343479.hrs@allbsd.org> <2a41acea0912021249w1aed8e83kf89ceb1e6041edaf@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Update: the claim to be unable to install was hasty, I went in and looked into myself and was able to get an install. Here's what I've found so far: First, the 82547EI will fail due to Invalid Mac Address, so I guess you hacked around this problem yourself? I had someone here test all legacy adapters for this problem and I was told nothing else was exhibiting it besides the 82542, obviously this is false :) In any case I will be making an official patch to fix that problem soon. Second, once I had the device working I do indeed see substandard performance, I am continuing to debug, but wanted you to know that I have reproduced this. Jack On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote: > We've run into a snag on this problem. The 82547 is a LOM only interface > and my validation engineer has only found two old systems that have it, > and neither of them will even install FreeBSD 8 they are so old :( > > I might suggest that you continue using the 7.2 driver with that hardware > if it was working. > > To me this is further data on the need to have a frozen legacy version of > em but the problem is which code to use and how to approach it. > > Can you give me more specifics on the box you have this installed on?? > > Regards, > > Jack > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> wrote >> in <2a41acea0911301119j1449be58y183f2fe1d1112a68@mail.gmail.com>: >> >> jf> I will look into this Hiroki, as time goes the older hardware does not >> jf> always >> jf> get test cycles like one might wish. >> >> Thanks! Please let me know if you need more information. >> >> -- Hiroki >> > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?2a41acea0912021514r2d44dd33n4c364518d7fe1703>