Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Barney Cordoba wrote this message on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 14:58 -0700: > This kind of stupidity really irritates me. The commercial use of FreeBSD is > the only reason that there is a project, and anyone with 1/2 a brain knows > that companies with products based on freebsd can't just upgrade the

Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Jim Thompson
Barney, I think everyone on-list understand you’re upset. You’ve made that clear. However, (and I’ll put my vendor hat on), the project does not exist solely for the benefit of the companies who choose to use it in their product(s). Given same, your statement that “the commercial use of FreeB

Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net
This kind of stupidity really irritates me. The commercial use of FreeBSD is the only reason that there is a project, and anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that companies with products based on freebsd can't just upgrade their tree every time some geek gets around to writing a patch. Maybe its the r

Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net
It's not an either/or. Until last July there was both. Like F'ing Intel isn't making enough money to pay someone to maintain a FreeBSD version. On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:24 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:24, Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net > wrote: > > Negative Pr

[CFT] new tables for ipfw

2014-08-13 Thread Alexander V. Chernikov
Hello list. (sorry for posting twice, patch seems to be too big to be posted as attachment). I've been hacking ipfw for a while and It seems there is something ready to test/review in projects/ipfw branch. Main user-visible changes are related to tables: 1) Tables are now identified by nam

Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net wrote this message on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:24 -0700: > Ok. It was a lot more convenient when it was a standalone module/tarball so > you didn't have to surgically extract it from the tree and spend a week > trying to get it to compile with whatever version you h

Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:24, Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net > wrote: > > Negative Progress is inevitable. Many here undoubtedly consider the referenced effort to be the opposite. Jim ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

bce driver errors with if_bridge and dhcp

2014-08-13 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, While trying to setup a bridge using if_bridge with a single bce interface I've hit the following error on 10.0-RELEASE (it doesn't happen all the times): NMI ISA 20, EISA ff NMI ISA 30, EISA ff NMI ISA 20, EISA ff NMI ... going to debugger NMI ... going to debugger NMI ISA 20, EISA ff N

[Bug 187341] [netinet] [patch] CARP addresses in backup state should't be used as source

2014-08-13 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187341 --- Comment #5 from commit-h...@freebsd.org --- A commit references this bug: Author: ae Date: Wed Aug 13 15:48:10 UTC 2014 New revision: 269944 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/269944 Log: MFC r269306: Add new rule to s

Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net
Ok. It was a lot more convenient when it was a standalone module/tarball so you didn't have to surgically extract it from the tree and spend a week trying to get it to compile with whatever version you happened to be running. So if you're running 9.1 or 9.2 you could still use it seamlessly.  N

RE: vRSS support on FreeBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Wei Hu
The table is sent through an out of band message with a specific head to the synthetic NIC. The driver on the guest side understands it and treats it as a update of send table. Do you mean the host OS put the tx queue selection directly on the receive packet descriptor? It is a very good idea.