From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 10:28:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E81716A407 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:28:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spartak@aif.ru) Received: from mail.aif.ru (mail.aif.ru [85.21.212.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF29F43D62 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spartak@aif.ru) Received: from ppp91-76-112-26.pppoe.mtu-net.ru ([91.76.112.26] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by mail.aif.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GjvWG-000GFA-KI; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:27:56 +0300 Message-ID: <45599A25.5080709@aif.ru> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:27:49 +0300 From: Spartak Radchenko User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org> <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <455858A3.9060701@aif.ru> <200611131447.kADElvjo044200@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200611131447.kADElvjo044200@lava.sentex.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) X-Spam-Report: -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.3 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Cc: Subject: Re: sio driver sucks X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:28:00 -0000 Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 06:36 AM 11/13/2006, > =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= wrote: >> 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. > > How do you switch it from sio to uart on RELENG_6 ? > Build a new kernel with device uart, change sio to uart tn the /boot/device.hints file. Maybe rebuilding a kernel is not needed, I never checked it. -- Spartak Radchenko SVR1-RIPE