Subject: Re: iwi firmware load related panic
To: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
From: Sverre Froyen <sverre@viewmark.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2007 10:41:09
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:20, Nick Hudson wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 20:54, Sverre Froyen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ever since the updates to the new iwi firmware: sysutils/iwi-firmware3, I
> > have had intermittent crashes.  I finally got around to compiling a
> > kernel with DIAGNOSTIC (and -g) and now I consitently get the following
> > panic when using ifconfig to configure iwi0 (which auto-loads the
> > firmware):
> >
> > panic: free: unaligned addr 0xc1fba010, size 262144, type devfirm, mask
> > 4095

I can verify that the patch fixes the panic.  Remarkably, it (or some other 
very recent change) also fixes the iwi-firmware related crashes that I had 
been seeing since the middle of December.

Thanks for the help!

Sverre