Something else for beta snapshots? (axe patch)

[shadow]

With respect to usb/140883 (axe driver in 8.x is unhappy),  Pyun YongHyeon provided
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/axe/if_axe.c
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/axe/if_axereg.h

Which unlike what's being shipped currently appears to not go offline after several hours. I built my own kernel, but you might consider shipping this, at least until it hits upstream, such that other people who need a usb ethernet don't have to fuss with this like I did.

[cmb]

http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/845

[eri--]

Imported in the builds.

[shadow]

Pyun has updated the drivers in the same location to remove the remaining issues. Of note, the driver in 8.1 used buffers larger than the chipset supported for transmit; the one previously provided as a patch fixed that but combining frames into even the correct-sized transmit buffer is still unreliable.

The updated driver avoids transmitting more than a single packet per buffer, and is thus stable.

[shadow]

@shadow:

Pyun has updated the drivers in the same location to remove the remaining issues. Of note, the driver in 8.1 used buffers larger than the chipset supported for transmit; the one previously provided as a patch fixed that but combining frames into even the correct-sized transmit buffer is still unreliable.

The updated driver avoids transmitting more than a single packet per buffer, and is thus stable.

A final, correct fix just went in
http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=216284
(from usb/140883)

[jimp]

I updated the ticket with a link to that revision.