Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:29:26 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: thierry@herbelot.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ie(4) MPSAFE patch Message-ID: <200806021529.26497.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200806011726.36771.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <200805291503.15787.jhb@freebsd.org> <200806011726.36771.thierry@herbelot.com>
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On Sunday 01 June 2008 11:26:35 am Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Le Thursday 29 May 2008, John Baldwin a =E9crit : > > I have a patch to make ie(4) MPSAFE. I have no hardware to test it > > however. Note that this patch is relative to HEAD, so for testing on > > RELENG_[67] you would first need to MFC the most recent commits to if_i= e.c > > and if_ievar.h (removing the 'unit' field from the softc) and then apply > > this patch. > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ie.patch >=20 > Hello, >=20 > thanks for the patch ; here is the startup, for a -current kernel : > ie1: <Intel EtherExpress 16> at port 0x360-0x36f iomem 0xd0000-0xd7fff ir= q 5=20 > on isa0 > ie1: hardware type EtherExpress 16, revision 1 > ie1: bpf attached > ie1: Ethernet address: 00:aa:00:26:ea:c4 > ie1: [MPSAFE] > ie1: [ITHREAD] >=20 > it seems to be working fine (including firewalling with pf) : > ie1: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 15= 00 > ether 00:aa:00:26:ea:c4 > inet6 fe80::2aa:ff:fe26:eac4%ie1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > inet 192.168.4.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.4.255 > # ping 192.168.4.8 > PING 192.168.4.8 (192.168.4.8): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=3D0 ttl=3D255 time=3D4.130 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=3D1 ttl=3D255 time=3D1.720 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=3D2 ttl=3D255 time=3D1.601 ms Cool, thanks for testing. > TfH >=20 > PS : there is also this kind of harmless messages at boot : > # ifconfig ie1 up > module_register: module isa/ie_SL already exists! > Module isa/ie_SL failed to register: 17 > module_register: module isa/ie_EE16 already exists! > Module isa/ie_EE16 failed to register: 17 > module_register: module isa/ie_3C507 already exists! > Module isa/ie_3C507 failed to register: 17 Try http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/ie_mod.patch =2D-=20 John Baldwin
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