Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: __DEATH__ of SMP | Date | Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:40:41 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Additional information. This crash only happens if the machine is idle! > I booted it this morning and it is dead again. It uses the aic7xxx.c > driver and the NE2* ethernet card... Nothing else.
Have you tried any of the AIC7XXX experimental patches? ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux Daniel Eischen is doing a wonderful job.
The latest patch (Apr16) is supposed to be a big change - well I can't get it to compile yet :-( but the pervious Feb12 patch works great. The current shipping kernel code has a pretty bad kernel stack overflow problem (thanks to the wonderous optimization techniques of GCC) that are avoided by the patches. I'm sure there are other goodies tucked into the patches too.
Also, tune in to: aic7xxx@freebsd.org (subscribe by mailing majordomo@freebsd.org) where all the development banter happens.
It really is a shame Adaptec won't cooperate with Linux developers. My last mail to Robin Mizell <rmizell@corp.adaptec.com>, Manager of the "Adaptec Compatibility Advantage Program" (ACAP), still hasn't been answered. Once I wrote the word "Linux", I got an earfull of silence :-( Robin orginally wrote _me_ to handle my complaints that I addressed to a support rep.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@netcom.ca Linux Plug-and-Play Hardware Support http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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