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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:29:02 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ed0 timeouts 
Message-ID:  <199610252029.NAA08813@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:15:36 MDT." <199610252015.OAA16884@clem.systemsix.com> 

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>Hi,
>
>I currently am writing code for the FreeBSD SMP kernel that will allow
>us to use symmetric IO handling with all CPUs.  This basically
>involves changing the kernel to use a device called the "IO APIC"
>in place of the 8259s.  I now have code that does this, with all INT
>devices working properly EXCEPT for my ed NIC card.  I have tried different
>slots and different cards, but I continue to get:
>
>[ date/time ] /kernel: ed0: device timeout
>
>I am occasionally loosing the INTs expected to be generated by ed_xmit().
>The ed_watchdog() routine usually recovers gracefully (network actually locked
>twice since running this code: approx 2/3 weeks).  Could someone explain
>why the ed0 cards might loose this INT?  Any clues/insight appreciated!
>
>(please cc: me directly)

   Not much I can say about this...there isn't anything special I can think of
about the 'ed' cards that would cause them to lose interrupts. What type of
card do you have?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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