Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:36:03 +0300 From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= <spartak@aif.ru> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, sem@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sio driver sucks Message-ID: <455858A3.9060701@aif.ru> In-Reply-To: <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org> <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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O. Hartmann пишет: > Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > >> Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? >> >> There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a >> nightmare. There was a report about one crash with a message about a >> spinlock holed more than 5 seconds (there is no core dump because it has >> not repeated). >> >> After a discussion in a Russian FIDO group I've change it on uart and >> the problems gone. >> >> I think a default driver should be changed from sio to uart until it >> will be fixed. >> >> > > Had those overflows many times when I used FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE, > 6.1-STABLE and a modem. > But this never had a so bad influence forcing me into using uart. > I had serious problems with sio on Intel STL2 motherboard and recent stable. Massive silo overflows (modem was almost unusable) and at least 1 sio-related panic (spinlock held for more than 5 sec). Now I changed sio to uart ant it works like a charm. All problems gone. -- Spartak Radchenko SVR1-RIPE
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