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

[Mike Silbersack]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:

> Great!  However, it does not quite work for me (on -current as of
> yesterday, with version 1.36 of if_bfe.c).  Busdma wants a lock
> function:
>
>  panic: driver error: busdma dflt_lock called
>
> Using busdma_lock_mutex() and &sc->bfe_mtx results in watchdog
> timeouts, lots of LORs and no network traffic, so some other lock is
> apparently needed.
>
> Any ideas?

Hm.  My bfe machine is running 6.x, so I tested under that only.  Can you 
try setting hw.mem=1000M to see if that causes the panic to temporarily go 
away?  I'm interested to see if the new code panics only when > 1GB of ram 
is present or if it panics all the time now. :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack