freebsd stable - Sep 2008 - FreeBSD 6.5-prerelease and if_re - patches needed?

Hi,

The last part of last year and earlier this year a patch for if_re was
needed to get it working reliably on my machine[1] (and some others).
Now I have upgraded this machine to FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease, more info
here [2].
Are the if_re patches included in FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease now, or are
they still needed?

I ask because while if_re works most of the time in 6.4-prerelease, I
still have symptoms like last time (ssh often disconnects with "Bad
packet length" and so on).

References:
1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi
2) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi_freebsd
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:57:04PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > The last part of last year and earlier this year a patch for if_re was
 > needed to get it working reliably on my machine[1] (and some others).
 > Now I have upgraded this machine to FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease, more info
 > here [2].
 > Are the if_re patches included in FreeBSD 6.4-prerelease now, or are
 > they still needed?
 > 

Due to lack of time and energy the change made in HEAD wasn't MFCed
to RELENG_6 so you may still need some patch. stable/7 should have
no such problems though.

 > I ask because while if_re works most of the time in 6.4-prerelease, I
 > still have symptoms like last time (ssh often disconnects with "Bad
 > packet length" and so on).
 > 

Maybe the issue you're seeing comes from misuse of bus_dma(9) which
was corrected in stable/7.

 > References:
 > 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi
 > 2) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi_freebsd
 > -- 

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:10:23 +0900
Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Due to lack of time and energy the change made in HEAD wasn't MFCed
> to RELENG_6 so you may still need some patch. stable/7 should have
> no such problems though.
Does anybody happen to know which patch?
> Maybe the issue you're seeing comes from misuse of bus_dma(9) which
> was corrected in stable/7.
But not MFC'ed to RELENG_6 I guess?
Is therer a patch for RELENG_6 somewhere?
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:06:06PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 > On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:43 +0900
 > Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Maybe you can use if_re.c/if_rlreg.h in RELENG_7 with minor
 > > modification.
 > 
 > I have tried that now. Unfortunately, the differences were too many -
 > I never managed to get it to compile.
 > 
 > Has anyone else created pathes for if_re for RELENG_6?

http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/6.x/README

Hope this helps.
-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon