Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:52:13 +0100 From: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> To: John Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.1 Release broke my box Message-ID: <78392165-0ACF-4473-8C34-72E5147B344C@jump-ing.de> In-Reply-To: <18794.45109.504512.894659@gromit.timing.com> References: <5A12A808-AC77-478A-A5E8-A13B63EEC3A1@jump-ing.de> <18794.45109.504512.894659@gromit.timing.com>
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Am 12.01.2009 um 03:51 schrieb John Hein: > Markus Hitter wrote at 01:31 +0100 on Jan 12, 2009: >> Last Friday, after seeing ext2fs doesn't work with the 7.0 kernel, I >> decided to do yet another step and upgrade to 7.1 Release. The >> virtual machine for building tinybsd setup and ran flawlessly, but a >> tinybsd image built from it doesn't like networking any longer. The >> non-working box is a Geode-based Flepo Alpha, which uses the re >> network driver. > > What happens if you build a kernel with the 7.0 version of > sys/dev/re/if_re.c? You may have to roll back sys/pci/if_rlreg.h too. The exactly same (had to roll back sys/pci/if_rl.c as well). > What happens to the link light while these things are happening? The green light stays on, the yellow one flickers, just like expected. Obviously, the transmission gets interrupted at some higher level. Do I really have to bisect the entire kernel with it's 10,000 revisions now? *sigh* MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/
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