Call for Help: patching if_bfe against FreeBSD -stable (4.8, 4.9)

[Matt Emmerton]

> Duncan Barclay wrote:
> >>Duncan Barclay wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Poul,
> >>>
> >>>Did you try the latest one at
> >>>
> >>>http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb
> >>>
> >>>This is probably more upto date.
> >>>
> >>>I've never had watchdog timeouts... and I don't understand the module
clash
> >>>you are having.
>
> Tried the bfe-4.8.tgz. Modules compiled flawlessly.
> However once the bfe is "active", it will crash my machine silly (uptime
> 32s).
>
> Also there's a boot message of pci/bfe already exist and failed to
> register if_bfe.ko
>
> Any pointers on these?

Try taking "device bfe" out of your kernel and recompile.  Compiling devices
in your kernel (statically) and then trying to load modules (dynamically) is
not a good idea.

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Matt Emmerton