Re: Boot issue with e1000 netdde driver

[Samuel Thibault]

Richard Braun, le dim. 29 nov. 2020 14:09:56 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:28:42PM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 06:39:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > One way to avoid the bug is to use the e1000 hardware network type. I
> > > guess the rtl8139 driver that we ship in netdde has a bug in its irq
> > > handling (we had already seen that kind of bug a long time ago in the
> > > IDE driver). Moving to rump-based network drivers will probably help
> > > fixing this kind of issue long-term :)
> > 
> > It does seem to help. Thanks.
> > 
> > For information, the virtual machines were using the pcnet device,
> > not the rtl8139 one.
> 
> Actually, with the e1000 driver, very often, network is not functional
> at boot time and I have to manually kill netdde and trigger some activity
> for it to work.

Oh?

I'm surprised, I never experience this on my box.

Samuel