From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 13 9: 2:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9509414A28 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id SAA05957; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:01:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id SAA06610; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 18:01:29 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199910131513.IAA72452@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <199910131513.IAA72452@cwsys.cwsent.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:59:43 +0200 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Mike Tancsa From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness Cc: Mike Smith , dg@root.com, FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:12 AM -0700 1999/10/13, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > This reminds me of an AHC SCSI controller that froze during FreeBSD > boot after a Y2K BIOS patch had been installed. There could be some > timings that some BIOS's use that we don't know about. I must admit, I've been sitting here silently reading and trying to understand everything on this thread. I haven't had any problems with SMP and fxp0, although I'd be very interested to know the exact situations in which others have, so that I can hopefully avoid those configurations myself. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message