On Saturday 20 November 2010 17:44:21 Theo de Raadt wrote:
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> > 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?