em driver support for Intel 82579LM still buggy in FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have limited access to this hardware, I am told I will tomorrow, and will
> repro
> and test a fix that I have in mind, so stay tuned. I just noticed this bug
> is at
> a low priority, it should be higher than that.
>
After 2 months, what the status on this issue ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud

> Jack
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Tomas Svensson <tomas at tutus.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I sent a pr (kern/157418) that the em driver seems to be buggy for Intel
>> 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection which passed unnoticed. I now tried
>> it in FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 and the problem is still present.
>>
>> Does anyone else have this problem or have any ideas on how to fix it? I
>> assume that the initialization code for this chip is buggy, since the
>> driver locks up depending on if you build it with debug symbols or not.
>> The kernel also reports 'acquiring duplicate lock of same type: "network
>> driver"' only for this chip.
>>
>> -Tomas
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