7.1 Release broke my box

John Hein jhein at timing.com
Sat Jan 24 16:06:35 PST 2009


Markus Hitter wrote at 00:51 +0100 on Jan 25, 2009:
 > Am 12.01.2009 um 01:31 schrieb Markus Hitter:
 > 
 > > Last Friday, after seeing ext2fs doesn't work with the 7.0 kernel,  
 > > I decided to do yet another step and upgrade to 7.1 Release. The  
 > > virtual machine for building tinybsd setup and ran flawlessly, but  
 > > a tinybsd image built from it doesn't like networking any longer.  
 > > The non-working box is a Geode-based Flepo Alpha, which uses the re  
 > > network driver.
 > 
 > A small followup:
 > 
 > I'm finished bisecting, found a culprit and filed a bug:
 > 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130957
 > 
 > Now I'm wondering why this change didn't make trouble earlier.

I assume resource_list_alloc is returning NULL on your platform
(before and after 181771)?  And it's just that the new
code after jhb's change just handles the failure differently
that imp's code before the change.


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