> On Saturday 20 November 2010 17:44:21 Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > OBSD 4.8 was unable to set up my Broadcom BCM4401B1. What is interesting > > > is > > > that when I tried with OBSD 4.7 the bce set up the interface with no > > > problem. > > > > The driver was disabled because the chip cannot access high memory. > > > > > > from the manpage: > > "BUGS > The BCM4401 hardware can not do DMA to addresses above 1GB. Since the > bce driver makes no effort to circumvent this problem, it is likely that > the device will not work properly on machines with more than 1GB of > system memory." > > > Am I right by thinking it would be save to enable it if you have less than 1G?
Sure, you can do that. We just won't re-enable it in the tree. We will re-enable it when someone modifies it to be a bcopy-based network driver.
