FreeBSD 6.2 Open Issues

This is a list of open issues that need to be resolved for FreeBSD 6.2. If you have any updates for this list, please e-mail re@FreeBSD.org.

• Major issues
• Testing foci
• Problems Discovered by Kernel Stress Test Suite

Major issues for 6.2-RELEASE

Issue	Status	Responsible	Description
No pending major issues.

Testing foci for 6.2-RELEASE

Issue	Status	Responsible	Description
bce(4) stability fixes	Needs testing	Scott Long	Several stability fixes for bce(4) were merged from HEAD to RELENG_6 around 20061024. Initial testing results have been promising, but more testing reports would be useful.
em(4) stability fixes	Needs testing	Scott Long, Jack F. Vogel, Gleb Smirnoff, Kris Kennaway	Several difficult-to-diagnose stability issues have been observed in the em(4) driver since August. As of 20061027, a newer driver provided by Intel (version 6.2.9) has been committed to RELENG_6 for testing. UPDATE: Additional changes committed 20061110 fix some other observed stability problems and restore missing jumbo frame functionality.
sysinstall(8) kernel selection fix	Needs testing	Erwin Lansing	A bug in sysinstall(8) could result in it failing to install a kernel on a new disk if the user did not choose a distribution from the distribution menu. This is believed to have been fixed as of 20061029, but could use more testing.
ggated(8)	Needs testing	Paweł Jakub Dawidek	A recently-committed patch to ggated(8) is believed to fix some fairly serious problems, as reported in PR kern/104829.
devfs(5) fixes	Needs testing	Konstantin Belousov	Several deadlocks and locking bugs have been fixed in devfs(5).
tty(4) fixes	Needs testing	Martin Blapp	Several workarounds have been committed for known problems in the tty(4) layer.

Stress Test Panics

The system is continuously being subjected to Peter Holm's Kernel Stress Test Suite. The following issues have recently been discovered from this test suite.

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