Enabling VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11?

[Marko Zec]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:37:37 +0200
Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 04:27:28PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > It was for a while in 9.2, but we removed it from 10.0 and later
> > > due to stability issues we kept getting reports about. Haven't
> > > tried it since then, dont know if those issues are fixed.
> > >
> > 
> > I fixed some of the problems with VIMAGE that I encountered with
> > Bluetooth:
> > 
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-July/049582.html
> 
> ... which still lacks a proper implementation that doesn't constitute
> a gross layering violation in generic bus code.

By all means please go ahead and propose a layering-clean alternative,
not as ugly and intrusive as this part which I assume bodes you eyes:

-	return (device_attach(dev));
+
+	CURVNET_SET_QUIET(vnet0);
+	error = device_attach(dev);
+	CURVNET_RESTORE();
+	return error;

Marko


> > 
> > Hiroo Onoo submitted this patch, which I committed to fix problems
> > with VIMAGE encountered with removable USB Ethernet:
> > 
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2014-February/081025.html
> > 
> > Martin Matuska committed this fix for PF:
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-April/057803.html
> > 
> > So a lot of the stability problems with VIMAGE which were in PC-BSD
> > 9.2 and FreeBSD 9.x have been slowly been fixed.
> 
> Marius
> 
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