Re: include em in release builds?

Eric Grosse <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 11:43 Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  > My usual workaround is to download the latest src tree, then sysupgrade, then
> 
>  I doubt your sysupgrade worked.
> 
>  It would explain why you had further trouble. 
> 
> I'm sure you're right and it is my error. But FWIW, the sysupgrade reported success
> and the kernel compile on the new system ran without complaint and since I've moved
> back to the upgrade'd systems I've been running without issue. I'm happy to send my
> console transcript if it is of interest to anyone, but I'd guess not really a good use
> of anyone's time.
> 
> Really my question here was just: is it expensive or risky to include the em driver in
> the ppc64 release build? If so is there a preferred PCI network card I should buy?
> 
> And again, respect to all the developers that contribute so much to us. I'm fine as
> is.

The problem is you are mixing -current kernel with 7.5 release, or the other
way around.  I don't know what step you missed, but a step has been missed.

As for em(4), we'll look into adding more ethernet drivers to the kernel config.