Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:05:38 +0100
From: Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, bye. The only threads I remember around this were some people with
specific problems on specific SMP motherboards. I dont recall any mass
problems with the fxp cards... For what its worth, we have deployed some 50
The SMP problems also turned out to be nothing to do with the fxp cards
and everything to do with shared interrupts. But cards which generate a lot
of interrpts show this up well, hence it first showed up on FXP and has
been misrememberd by people as the fxp problem.
just make sure you arent sharing interrupts on an SMP box and you
will do fine.
- -pcf.
Holger Kipp sent me a message back on June 21 that says his problems
with freezing/IRQ issues on an SMP box that uses a Symbios SCSI
controller were solved with a patch/workaround from Gerard Roudier
who said he was planning to commit a polished version as soon as he
got some time.
(Not sure if it's there yet, and I'm not very good at looking at CVS
repositories, but a box here updated on 7/7 still shows old date
stamps on the sym drivers, and the last apparent change to the module
in question (sym_hipd.c) was around 4/26, based on the the FreeBSD
CVS webpage.)
Phil
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Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers Communications for the New Millenium
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