em(4) update for 6-STABLE

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Sun Aug 6 23:59:58 UTC 2006


On 8/3/06, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
>   Colleagues,
>
>   here is a patch that merges HEAD em(4) driver to RELENG_6.
>
> First, it significantly improves perfromance of the driver
> under high pps load.
> Second, it adds support for few new chips.
>
> You need to update your system to fresh RELENG_6. The driver
> will not compile on 6.1-RELEASE.
>
> Then you need to run the following sequence:
>
> cd /usr/src/sys/dev/em
> fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~glebius/em-6.0.5.RELENG_6.patch.gz
> gunzip em-6.0.5.RELENG_6.patch.gz
> patch < em-6.0.5.RELENG_6.patch
>
> and then rebuild your kernel and reboot.
>

1 out of 73 hunks failed--saving rejects to if_em_hw.h.rej
raidbackup1# more if_em_hw.h.rej

I'd send to .rej file but Opera9/Gmail is plotting against me. It's
seems to just be the Intel copyright notice that that failed ti
merge... I'll try sending it later.

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