From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 09:34:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F2316A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:34:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from radix.sorted.org (radix.sorted.org [194.70.217.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE1743FCB for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@sorted.org) Received: by radix.sorted.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id E1D212EA51; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:34:27 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:34:27 +0000 From: Pete Bentley To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031203173427.GA96620@sorted.org> References: <1508164067.20031202154142@inar.ru> <20031202152116.GN8404@elvis.mu.org> <20031202171304.A51744@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20031202163319.GP8404@elvis.mu.org> <20031202194836.E73910@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20031203101117.GQ8404@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031203101117.GQ8404@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: FreeBSD-5.2 BETA & Davicom ethernet X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:34:31 -0000 On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:33:19PM +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote: > > > > > This is expected for now. I coudln't find the time to add support for > > > been reports of crashes with dc(4) cards under sparc64 at high load. So > > > I'm really reluctant to commit this. Which makes me wonder : do you > > > experience these crashes? > > > > No. [...] > > There now also seem to be several people that use onboard > > Davicom NICs with FreeBSD/sparc64 and there where no new reports of > > such crashes. In if_dc.c revision 1.122 and 1.123 mbr@ fixed a > > Davicom-related bug, maybe it was also the cause for those crashes. > > That's definitely good news. The reports I had about crashes were with > other dc(4) NICs plugged into a PCI slot, not with onboard Davicom NICs > if I remember correctly, but I could be wrong. I've been running various 5.1 currents on a X1 and not seen any crashes at all since 1.123, although the box hasn't been worked all that hard (download/make/install). Note that the X1 and V100 have no PCI slots, so they can never can a mix of onboard and PCI based dc cards. The V120 and V180 have a PCI slot, but I am not 100% sure what onboard ethernet hardware they have. The one weird thing I did see on my last make installworld was that 'make -j 2' failed consistently but 'make' succeeded... Maybe related to those fork() issues we saw with Perl a way back? I forget the exact error (sorry) but will try and reproduce, something along the lines of "file format is not valid" when installing /bin/sh. Pete.