pending em0 commits for FreeBSD 8.1 STABLE

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Denis Ahrens wrote:

> Hi Jack
>
> It seems that I am also victim to some strange bug which is
> possibly the fault of the em0 code.
>
> After some research I have seen that you have changed that
> code awhile ago which could possibly have fixed my problems
> already.
>
> The code changes:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-September/020313.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-September/020314.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2010-September/021027.html
>
> The last one even had an MFC of one week. But it was never committed to
> STABLE.
>
> It would be nice if you could commit that so I can update my code and see
> if the problem still occurs.

Especially the first two seem to be interesting.

You should actually be able to take the e1000 directory from HEAD and
compile it on stable/8;  I would assume that would be possible atm.,
or try to merge/apply the three commit from above locally.


> My problems are looking like this one:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-October/059618.html
>
> My FreeBSD STABLE codebase is from 29. September 2010
>
> dmesg:
>
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 7.0.5> port 0xdc00-0xdc1f mem 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff,0xfe9dc000-0xfe9dffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
> em0: Using MSI interrupt
> em0: [FILTER]
> em0: Ethernet address: 00:25:90:04:f2:90
>
> pciconf -v -l:
>
> em0 at pci0:2:0:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x060a15d9 chip=0x10d38086 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>    device     = 'Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L)'
>    class      = network
>    subclass   = ethernet
>
> Denis Ahrens
>

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