sparc64/105607: ipfw on sparc64 doesn't work at all (causes panic)

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:10:09PM +0000, Aled Morris wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR sparc64/105607; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Aled Morris <aledm at qix.co.uk>
> To: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> Cc: 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 22:03:07 +0000
> 
>  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?
>  
>  There should be a note about this in the release notes or on the website 
>  or something (maybe I missed it?)
>  
: $ uname -srm
: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE sparc64
: $ kldstat |head -3
: Id Refs Address            Size     Name
:  1    4 0xc0000000 5a58e8   kernel
:  2    1 0xc08b4000 116000   ipfw.ko


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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