Enabling VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11?

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 17 20:28:36 UTC 2014


On 10/17/14, 7:51 PM, Marko Zec wrote:
> 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
>
I think he means the entire bluetooth implementation, which is done 
from within netgraph.
>>> 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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