Re: ie(4) MPSAFE patch

Le Thursday 29 May 2008, John Baldwin a écrit :
> 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_ie.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

Hello,

thanks for the patch ; here is the startup, for a -current kernel :
ie1: <Intel EtherExpress 16> at port 0x360-0x36f iomem 0xd0000-0xd7fff irq 5 
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]

it seems to be working fine (including firewalling with pf) :
ie1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        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=0 ttl=255 time=4.130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.720 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.4.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.601 ms

	TfH

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