Re: Potential re(4) / netbsd-4 / i386 problem?

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> I've managed to reproduce this now in netbsd-5 too (source is about 3 
> months old, not sure if there have been any changes since):
> 
> re0: discarding oversize frame (len=9041)
> re0: discarding oversize frame (len=16158)
> panic: kernel diagnostic assertion "pcg->pcg_avail == 0" failed: file 
> "../../../../kern_subr_pool.c", line 2580
> 
> As I think I've said before, the actual crash point is different
> every time but the panic is always preceded by the discarding
> oversize frame. Sometimes the len in the oversize frame message
> is len=-1.

I'm afraid it's memory corruption caused by hardware or PCI BIOS problem.

What happens if you change
>       cfg = RE_CPLUSCMD_PCI_MRW;
to
>       cfg = 0;
in re_init()? Or can you have newer BIOS for your hardware?

That's the only change that affects xfers in rev 1.105.4.8 and 1.72.2.11.
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Izumi Tsutsui