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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:09:56 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        joao.barros@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, mike@sentex.net
Subject:   Re: 6.0-CURRENT SNAP004 hangs on amr (patch)
Message-ID:  <4323BC24.9020902@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050910.210859.133432771.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <70e8236f05090513381584dda0@mail.gmail.com>	<70e8236f0509051350e020f76@mail.gmail.com>	<70e8236f05091016251510408c@mail.gmail.com> <20050910.210859.133432771.imp@bsdimp.com>

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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <70e8236f05091016251510408c@mail.gmail.com>
>             Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> writes:
> : I believe a workaround for this issue would be verifying before
> : disabling the device, that no more that one device shares that
> : particular pci slot.
> : 
> : Comments?
> 
> No.  That's not a fair workaround.  There's too many other cases that
> this would break.  Amrs are farily rare, and having a workaround that
> negatively affects other hardware is undesirable.
> 
> The problem is that the AMR device attaches to only one of the PCI
> devices, when it should attach a dummy driver to the second one.  This
> is due to flaws in the amr hardware design, which we've also seen in
> the aac cards.
> 
> Warner

I don't really care if you think that it's a flaw.  What it comes down 
to is that it's a problem with FreeBSD.

Scott



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