busdma MFC broke ipfw fwd for RELENG_6

Eugene Grosbein egrosbein at rdtc.ru
Sat Sep 17 21:06:50 UTC 2011


18.09.2011 03:22, YongHyeon PYUN пишет:

>>> Glad to hear that. Unfortunately I have no plan or time to merge
>>> all changes made in re(4)/rl(4) to stable/6 so you may have to
>>> stick to this unofficial driver. As you already know, I overhauled
>>> these drivers long time ago and there were too many changes.
>>
>> Well, given that before busdma commit that hardware worked just fine with stock driver,
>> it could be less overhead for me to rollback that one busdma small chunk :-)
>> Who knows, which drivers got broken then in 2010 in 6.4-STABLE with busdma change besides re(4)...
> 
> I agree but that MFC may have fixed bugs in other driver which
> correctly used bus_dma(9) KPI.

It is possible. With luck, this legacy 6.4-STABLE system runs rock-stable
and have no other problems with drivers/

Thanks for your drivers backport, anyway, now this case is closed :-)


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