6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 29 September 2006 06:37, Pete French wrote:
> >    Attached is a simple user program that will immediately cause pretty 
much
> > all of the network drivers (at least the ones I own) to stop working and
> > get watchdog timeouts.
> 
> I am runnign this on a single processor machine with an SMP kernel and
> it does not have any effect. I dont tink I have any single processor
> machines running a non SMP kernel to try it on though. Not particularly
> helpful I know. I'll try building a non SMP kernel for this machine if I
> can. 

You can set kern.smp.disabled=1 from the loader to force UP with an SMP 
kernel.  No need to recompile.

-- 
John Baldwin