On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:12:50AM +0200, Marko Zec wrote: > ... > > Symptom is that I get a panic on insert (or kernel probe, if it's > > inserted already at boot time) of a PCcard NIC. > > > VIMAGE kernels Oh -- right. I fogot that I had configured this kernel for VIMAGE so Julian to demo something at a meeting a few months back ... and had never un-configured it. > do not properly set curvnet context when dynamically attaching > devices (such as USB or pccard NICs), that's why the dereferencing V_if_index > fails. You can use the "show pcpu" and "show vnets" DDB commands to > determine whether curvnet context is properly set or not. > > bz's vimage tree from p4://depot/user/bz/vimage/... aims at fixing those and > many other initialization issues with VIMAGE kernels, though I don't know how > stable it is currently... Well, I reckon he can speak up when he feels it's appropriate. :-} For now, I can probably copy this off to a different slice for VIMAGE experimentation, and revert my "normal" head/current stuff to non-VIMAGE, then. [I was kinda wondernig why no one else was reporting this sort of thing.] Thanks. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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