bwn + BETA3/ppc = very unstable

Roman Bogorodskiy novel at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 3 02:44:27 UTC 2011


  Adrian Chadd wrote:

> There've been a few comments about bwn stability and performance when
> running on ppc.
> Unfortunately I don't have any ppc hardware that's suitable.
> 
> The performance issue is likely due to endianness in some eeprom fiddling code.
> 
> The illegal instruction? i'm not sure; can you please get a backtrace
> from the debugger so we can see exactly where it's dying?

Thanks for the info!

I will try to get a backtrace.

Unfortunately, keyboard for some reason stops working when kernel
crashes, so I cannot get it online and also there's nothing in
/var/crash (but it seems dumpdev and dumpdir are set correctly by
default), so will need to figure out how to do it.

Roman Bogorodskiy
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