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From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Enabling VIMAGE by default for FreeBSD 11?
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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@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.

> 
> 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