nfe problem on 8.0-BETA2

[Ryan Rogers]

b. f. wrote:
>> Seeing that nfe apparently worked on June 1st, I headed to the FTP to see
>> which snapshots were available.  The earliest -CURRENT June snapshot was
>> dated the 8th, so I grabbed that one.  The nics didn't work at all.
>>
>> So, there's a small window where something changed which broke nfe. Looking
>> at the SVN commit logs for if_nfe.c, nothing really fits in that window.  To
>> me, this looks like something about general network device handling changed
>> which nfe nics can't cope with.  I have no idea what that could be though,
>> so I'm hoping that someone on this list would be able to point me in the
>> right direction.
>>
>> Ryan
> 
> Well, you guys picked a helluva week (June 1-8) in which to narrow
> down problems.  It would help if you gave the exact revisions of the
> snapshots you are using.  And if you are going to hunt this down, I
> would recommend getting a local subversion repository of the sources,
> so that you can selectively revert changes and then rebuild to test.
> 
> I have a MCP61-based NIC using nfe, and I haven't had any problems.
> Since you both have Marvell 88E1116-based chipsets, I'm going to guess
> that one of yongari@'s changesets from June 2 was the source of your
> problems:
> 
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193289
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193291
> 
> If you revert these and still can't get your NICs to work, then I
> think that probably the new ACPI import that began on June 5 with
> r193529  may be the next likely suspect.
> 
> Regards,
>                  b.
> 
> 

Aha!  I updated my 7.2-RELEASE install to r193288, and everything worked 
fine.  I then updated to r193289, and nfe broke!  Now that I know what 
I'm looking for, I'll see what I can do to get it working in the 
morning.  Thanks!

Ryan