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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:03:04 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Morgan Davis <mdavis@cts.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: 4.0-stable + SMP + fxp = device timeout
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000329190304.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <NABBLJGKKPMOKACIENPPIEGMCKAA.mdavis@cts.com>

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On 29-Mar-00 Morgan Davis wrote:
>  Well, no experimental PCI cards here.  The same hardware used to run
>  3.4-stable in SMP mode with no problems.  It runs the 4.0-stable GENERIC
>  kernel just fine.  But enabling SMP causes the ethernet timeouts.  Here's
>  all I changed to the GENERIC kernel config:
>  
>  options         SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
>  options         APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
>  
>  These are exactly the two lines that were uncommented when the hardware
>  ran
>  3.4-stable.

The system in question hasn't ever run 3.4 so I don't know if it works under
those circumstances..

Hmmm :-/

What other stuff do you have plugged in? Does the fxp share irqs? Tried
swapping cards? Doing BIOS upgrades? etc etc :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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