Re: DFly 1.4.4 and tulip NICs

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/7/06, Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> :I installed DFly 1.4.4 today and it proply panic'd with a problem in
> :tulip_rx_intr(), as described in this mail thread:
> :http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/bugs/2006-02/msg00010.html
> :
> :I was dismayed to find that the DFly ISOs don't include sources, so I can't
> :patch this system and get it on the LAN.
> :[ Curiosity -- why is this done?  I tend to run on ancient hardware with
> :FreeBSD and having the sources around has allowed me to patch up drivers to
> :get the systems running.  Are the sources really too large to include in the
> :DFly ISO? ]
>
>     The ISO has historically been made as minimal as possible.  I agree
>     with you that the ISO should contain compilable kernel sources.  They
>     dont have to be automatically installed, but we ought to be add them
>     to the ISO as a gzip'd tar.
>
> :What's the easiest way to get this machine running?  Burn the sources to CD
> :and copy them over, patch/rebuild/reboot?
> :
> :Regards,
> :--
> :Matt Emmerton
>
>     Try burning a recent build of HEAD.   There's a good chance that the
>     particular panic referenced (a serializer panic) is fixed in HEAD.  If

It had been fixed on HEAD :-)

Best Regards,
sephe

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