Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c | Date | Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:00:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Please for the Linux booting Linux scenario it is mandatory we get this right > for reboot. I know for a fact that currently we leave active receive buffers on > network cards when we reboot. (If you haven't downed the interface). So it > is possible for a network packet to come in and hose a machine that is rebooting.
Thats a bios bug. Its pretty much the whole reason for having bus master enable bits in the PCI configuration. The BIOS should have killed the bus masters.
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