Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated? | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:50:39 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> WITH. patched 8390.c, patched apic.c, sock io_apic.c. My very strong > feeling is that this will be a stable combination, and that this is what > we want as a final solution.
If you do that please #ifdef SMP all the changes. Its impossible to use a modem and an ne2K together on a typical PC otherwise. The copy from the NE2K with irq disabled is just _SO_ slow you drop bytes continually.
I did all the horrible magic in the ne2k driver for a reason. The other alternative is to provide a way to force the system back out of apic mode so the ne2K driver can do a
goodbye_apic_crap()
type call
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