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SubjectRe: Use of Moxa serial card with SMP kernels
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On Friday 18 June 2004 08:09 am, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:41:32AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > Both Moxa serial drivers (moxa & mxser) are BROKEN_ON_SMP because
> > they use cli() to disable interrupts for critical sections.
> > See Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt for details.
> > They will need some acceptable modern form of protection there,
> >
> > Is anyone working on this? not that I've heard of.
> > Have you tried this email address:
> > Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Moxa Technologies (support@moxa.com.tw).
>
> I'd try writing and asking about it; they were very helpful when we
> had problems.

I agree.... I have written to them - they have responded already asking for
more info - and I'm waiting to hear back from them.
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