Hi, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:59 PM, YongHyeon PYUN <pyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:17:22AM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > Arnaud (and others), >> > >> > Liaising with vendors is not an easy task. The reason why Intel (and >> > other vendors) don't supply detailed history and reasoning for their >> > development efforts is that their engineers are likely tasked with >> > "making it work" versus "writing lots of stuff down for public >> > release." In some instances, the vendor support of FreeBSD (and "free" >> > open source in general) is done as a side-project by some of the >> > engineers inside the company. >> > >> > So in this case, you may find that Jack and the other engineers at >> > Intel just don't have the time or resources to dedicate the kinds of >> > feedback and support you seem to be after. He and others likely have a >> > huge set of tasks to do at work and none of them officially include >> > "support FreeBSD/Linux developers by providing detailed feedback and >> > assistance." So whenever Jack pops up to help out, he's likely doing >> > it in his spare time. :-) >> > >> Yes, and he seems to really like to waste his spare time by repeating >> me for two months to increase `kern.ipc.nmbclusters' to fix issue I >> was seeing, when the code was clearly buggy, even when I sent him >> patchs fixing issues. >> > > If you think you encountered a driver bug, could you share it with > us? I didn't closely follow em(4)/lem(4)/igb(4) changes for a long > time so I'm not sure whether I can come up with reasonable fix for > the issue but I may be able to help you. > They ended up being fixed, thanks :-)
Now, up until next week, we were struggle on the mbuf corruption I reported on freebsd-net@, but I do not think it is a driver issue per-se. - Arnaud _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
