em interface slow down on 8.0R

[Jack Vogel]

Update: the claim to be unable to install was hasty, I went in and looked
into myself and was able to get an install. Here's what I've found so far:

First, the 82547EI will fail due to Invalid Mac Address, so I guess you
hacked around this problem yourself?  I had someone here test all
legacy adapters for this problem and I was told nothing else was exhibiting
it besides the 82542, obviously this is false :)  In any case I will be
making
an official patch to fix that problem soon.

Second, once I had the device working I do indeed see substandard
performance, I am continuing to debug, but wanted you to know that I
have reproduced this.

Jack


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've run into a snag on this problem. The 82547 is a LOM only interface
> and my validation engineer has only found two old systems that have it,
> and neither of them will even install FreeBSD 8 they are so old :(
>
> I might suggest that you continue using the 7.2 driver with that hardware
> if it was working.
>
> To me this is further data on the need to have a frozen legacy version of
> em but the problem is which code to use and how to approach it.
>
> Can you give me more specifics on the box you have this installed on??
>
> Regards,
>
> Jack
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote
>>  in <2a41acea0911301119j1449be58y183f2fe1d1112a68 at mail.gmail.com>:
>>
>> jf> I will look into this Hiroki, as time goes the older hardware does not
>> jf> always
>> jf> get test cycles like one might wish.
>>
>>  Thanks!  Please let me know if you need more information.
>>
>> -- Hiroki
>>
>
>