if_bfe and > 1 GB of ram is now fixed (fwd)

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Sat Apr 29 15:23:12 UTC 2006


Google told me that some of you guys were discussing this issue on 
freebsd-mobile, so I'm forwarding my post over here.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:44:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby at silby.com>
To: stable at freebsd.org
Subject: if_bfe and > 1 GB of ram is now fixed


If anyone was using a bfe card and seeing interrupt storms when you attempted 
to bring the card up, this is the fix for you.  The driver wasn't previously 
taking into account the fact that the chipset doesn't like addresses over the 
1GB mark.

If you'd like an even quicker fix, just add hw.mem = "1000M" to your 
loader.conf and reboot. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:39:58 +0000 (UTC)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby at FreeBSD.org>
To: src-committers at FreeBSD.org, cvs-src at FreeBSD.org, cvs-all at FreeBSD.org
Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/bfe if_bfe.c

silby       2006-04-28 05:39:58 UTC

   FreeBSD src repository

   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
     sys/dev/bfe          if_bfe.c
   Log:
   MFC revs 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, and 1.36.

   These changes allow bfe to work on machines with > 1GB of ram.

   Approved by:    re

   Revision  Changes    Path
   1.25.2.5  +20 -17    src/sys/dev/bfe/if_bfe.c


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