sparc64/105607: ipfw on sparc64 doesn't work at all (causes
panic)
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Nov 16 23:10:09 UTC 2006
The following reply was made to PR sparc64/105607; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Aled Morris <aledm at qix.co.uk>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: sparc64/105607: ipfw on sparc64 doesn't work at all (causes panic)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:01:03 -0500
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:03:07PM +0000, Aled Morris wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> >>I tried. The problem is in loading kernel modules. Panic every time.
> >>
> >>IPFW compiled-in to the kernel works fine.
> >>
> >>Now what do I do? submit a new PR for the KLD problem?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >No, it's not really a bug, but a design limitation in the way things
> >are compiled on sparc.
> >
> >Kris
> >
> >
> KLD isn't expected to work on sparc64?
As I said, not if you have too much memory. Apparently =4GB is
already too much, but lesser amounts do work.
> There should be a note about this in the release notes or on the website
> or something (maybe I missed it?)
Not sure if/where it's documented, so yeah, maybe it could be more
prominent.
Kris
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