HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:21:24 +0200
Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:

> Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:34:09AM -0700, Ade Lovett wrote:
> >> idiosyncratic situations (yes, ahc(4), I'm looking at you) for 5+  
> > 
> > What's the problem with ahc(4)?  My ahc controller is one of
> > the most reliable pieces of hardware that I've purchased.
> > It's also the only interface available to my external DLT
> > tape drive.
> 
> Not to forget the large amount of embedded ahc's that got implemented on 
> all kinds of serverbords. I still have quite a large set of customers 
> with such ASUS boards I sold to them over the years. Up 'till now I've 
> been able to keep 'm running with the pace of FreeBSD.
> Removing this driver would "leave them behind".
> 
> I can force them to upgrade, but thus far there has been little reason 
> for that (hardware wise).
> 

[pruned the over-zealous CCs]

Well, one problem with ahc is that it doesn't play nicely with >= 4GB
of memory on AMD64.

I have ahc and 4GB of memory and have to set hw.physmem="3500m" in
/boot/loader.conf to keep it from dumping its cookies at boot time.

Otherwise I'm more than happy with my 29160N.

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Gary Jennejohn