em driver support for Intel 82579LM still buggy in FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1

[Jack Vogel]

I have limited access to this hardware, I am told I will tomorrow, and will
repro
and test a fix that I have in mind, so stay tuned. I just noticed this bug
is at
a low priority, it should be higher than that.

Jack


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Tomas Svensson <tomas at tutus.se> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I sent a pr (kern/157418) that the em driver seems to be buggy for Intel
> 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection which passed unnoticed. I now tried
> it in FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and the problem is still present.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem or have any ideas on how to fix it? I
> assume that the initialization code for this chip is buggy, since the
> driver locks up depending on if you build it with debug symbols or not.
> The kernel also reports 'acquiring duplicate lock of same type: "network
> driver"' only for this chip.
>
> -Tomas
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