Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:48:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> To: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, AIC7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIC7XXX for SMP kernel Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912142317280.12455-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991214104905.61398E-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Mike Isely wrote: > > Yes, but I suspect given the thoroughness of the things he's tried in the > past, Mr. Brown probably would have seen this and figured it out himself > if it were in the FAQ. Going through the mailing list archives certainly > helps but the S/N ratio is far better in an FAQ. Making it obviously > available and up-to-date would at least give you the excuse to now say "go > read the FAQ!" Well maybe it is in the FAQ; I haven't looked recently. > (But then I haven't had a reason to look either.) I should stick in a plug here for "mailman", which is a Gnu mailing list manager with Very Cool Features. Using it, maintaining the list is greatly simplified (one good reason to use it) AND users have a web interface for things like removal from the list (another good reason to use it) AND it maintains a web-accessible threaded mailing list archive automatically (a really GOOD reason to use it). We've started using it recently in physics and I really like it. rgb (the "other Robert Brown", saying "howdy, cuzzin" to rlb:-) P.S. -- Doug, I did try booting my box with the noapic option and although it did no apparent harm, neither did it get the network card to suddenly load correctly. I'm going to go into the case -- some of the stuff in the kernel documentation on ioapic suggests that card order is pretty critical in the new kernels and perhaps I'm doing something boneheaded (now) that worked fine with 2.0.x. I'm going to try a 2.3 kernel when I get one to compile -- my first effort to compile one failed and I won't have time to try again until after finals. Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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