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Date:      Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:48:52 +0200
From:      "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.czest.pl>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Alberto Villa" <avilla@freebsd.org>
Cc:        marius@freebsd.org, "marcel@freebsd.org" <marcel@freebsd.org>
Subject:   (Possible fix for sbp(4)) Re: Comment out sbp driver from GENERIC
Message-ID:  <op.v3jprq0v0do8pi@wkoszek-thinkpad-t410>
In-Reply-To: <CAJp7RHZYNwbep9=5u77QXkztcYJXQ0Auy-yrS5MYG_Lke9LNoQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Dnia 18-10-2011 o 01:28:36 Alberto Villa <avilla@freebsd.org> napisa=C5=82=
(a):

> Hello!
>
> It has been reported several times that some motherboards have issues
> at boot with sbp driver loaded. To hide the problem, the driver was
> removed from GENERIC in 8-STABLE, but it was left in -CURRENT and it
> is now going into 9-STABLE. Please, apply the workaround to 9-STABLE
> also!
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D199112

Hi,

Commenting a driver out is almost always a bad idea and should
be done as a last step.

If you are impacted by sbp(4) hangs please follow this thread:

	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-December/081411=
.html

And please let me know if a fix explained in this thread works for you.

-- =

Wojciech A. Koszek
wkoszek@freebsd.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/



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