Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] SUNHME: Workaround ancient hang on U1's | From | Ben Collins <> | Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 21:59:18 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:17 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> > Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:30:46 -0400 > > > This work around has been in use by almost any distribution trying to > > support sparc64 since at least 2002. Without it, sunhme hangs fairly > > quickly on UltraSPARC 1's. > > > > Dave, I know it's not in the kernel because it isn't a "fix", but given > > that we haven't seen a fix in more than 5 years, can we get this out of my > > tree please? :) > > It isn't needed any more, the hang no longer occurs. > > Nobody should be applying that patch, my guess is that it was > a GCC bug that has been fixed over time that reordered the > writes to RX/TX descriptors which hung the chip.
Ah, thanks. I'll revert it out. Seemed like every time I yanked it out of the our tree (Debian/Ubuntu) some one would complain, and I had to put it back in.
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