From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
