> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:05:38 +0100 > From: Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thanks, bye." The only threads I remember around this were some people with > > specific problems on specific SMP motherboards. I dont recall any mass > > problems with the fxp cards... For what its worth, we have deployed some 50 > > The SMP problems also turned out to be nothing to do with the fxp cards > and everything to do with shared interrupts. But cards which generate a lot > of interrpts show this up well, hence it first showed up on FXP and has > been misrememberd by people as the "fxp problem". > > just make sure you arent sharing interrupts on an SMP box and you > will do fine. > > - -pcf.
Holger Kipp sent me a message back on June 21 that says his problems with freezing/IRQ issues on an SMP box that uses a Symbios SCSI controller were solved with a patch/workaround from Gerard Roudier who said he was planning to commit a polished version as soon as he got some time. (Not sure if it's there yet, and I'm not very good at looking at CVS repositories, but a box here updated on 7/7 still shows old date stamps on the sym drivers, and the last apparent change to the module in question (sym_hipd.c) was around 4/26, based on the the FreeBSD CVS webpage.) Phil -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
