nfe problem on 8.0-BETA2

[b. f.]

> Seeing that nfe apparently worked on June 1st, I headed to the FTP to see
> which snapshots were available.  The earliest -CURRENT June snapshot was
> dated the 8th, so I grabbed that one.  The nics didn't work at all.
>
> So, there's a small window where something changed which broke nfe. Looking
> at the SVN commit logs for if_nfe.c, nothing really fits in that window.  To
> me, this looks like something about general network device handling changed
> which nfe nics can't cope with.  I have no idea what that could be though,
> so I'm hoping that someone on this list would be able to point me in the
> right direction.
>
> Ryan

Well, you guys picked a helluva week (June 1-8) in which to narrow
down problems.  It would help if you gave the exact revisions of the
snapshots you are using.  And if you are going to hunt this down, I
would recommend getting a local subversion repository of the sources,
so that you can selectively revert changes and then rebuild to test.

I have a MCP61-based NIC using nfe, and I haven't had any problems.
Since you both have Marvell 88E1116-based chipsets, I'm going to guess
that one of yongari@'s changesets from June 2 was the source of your
problems:

http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193289
http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193291

If you revert these and still can't get your NICs to work, then I
think that probably the new ACPI import that began on June 5 with
r193529  may be the next likely suspect.

Regards,
                 b.