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

[Scott Long]

Craig Boston wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:48:42PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/usb_fastintr_RELENG_6.diff
> 
> 
> At first glance it appeared to work, but I'm about to do some more
> testing since I just discovered that I have to kldload something
> (anything) first in order to reproduce the problem.  Weird.
> 
> One thing this patch definitely did do though, is break the nvidia
> driver pretty badly.  Couldn't keep the X server running for more than a
> minute before it froze solid.  Lots of Xid: blah blah blah messages.
> Yes I remembered to rebuild the kernel module ;)
> 
> Oh, and if anyone is curious, I am able to reproduce the problem after
> booting without nvidia.ko loaded, using qemu in -nographic mode.  Just
> wanted to rule that out since its code that's out of our control and
> would be a prime target to blame if I didn't.
> 
> Craig

My patch shouldn't have a single effect on nvidia.  It just gets the USB 
out of the way of other drivers.  Weird.  But what does 'blah blah' 
translate into?

Scott