CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:40:25AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org>:
> >
> > Corrected patch is at:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/usb_fastintr_RELENG_6.diff
> 
> I have a Dell 1950 here that's been dedicated to helping solve this
> problem.  I can reliably reproduce the watchdog timeout by doing
> the following steps:
> 
> 1) Mount /usr/src via nfs
> 2) start a -j99 buildworld
> 3) On a different terminal, do tar czvf /usr/src/temp.tgz /big/directory
> 
> Usually only takes a few minutes before a watchdog occurs, and I have
> no more networking.
> 
> Your patch applied cleanly, and everything built OK.  The results are:
> a) My USB keyboard stopped working :(
> b) The problem does _not_ improve.
> 
> In my case, it's a bce driver that's doing it.  I also have some em
> cards in this machine that I can test if the information will be
> helpful.
> 
> This is quite a show-stopper for us, if there's any other testing/etc
> I can do, _please_ let me know.  I might even be able to get remote
> console access to this machine approved for a developer.

Remote console access would be a help.  I suspect there may be more
than one problem here.

Kris
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