Re: panic in 8-CURRENT / BGE hang

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 02:50 am, JoaoBR wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 13:16:10 Lawrence Farr wrote:
> > > could this patch help to solve this kern/116328 also ? If so
> > > would you mind to
> > > send me a copy?
> > >
> > >
> > > thank's
> > > --
> > >
> > > Jo�o
> >
> > Setting hw.bge.allow_asf="0" at the loader prompt fixes it for
> > me, as per the mail by Anders Norby:
>
> great it works, thank you
>
> so that is the reason then that bge hangs with 7 with the same
> if_bge.c version as releng_6
>
> because hw.bge.allow_asf defaults to 0 in releng_6 and to 1 in 7
>
> somebody knows why this changed? Would be kind of handy if this
> where in the man page since almost all tyans and other server
> boards have this bge nics

When I MFC'd bge(4) on RELENG_6, I decided to turn it off by default.  
See the diff between RELENG_6 and MFC point:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c.diff?r2=1.91.2.21;r1=1.186

Since RELENG_7 is branched, I think we should do the same on the 
branch as well.

Jung-uk Kim