[vortex] Problem with built-in dual 3c982, Dual AMD S2462 MB.

[Heflin, Roger A.]

Bogdan,

We ran the 18Feb01 driver with apic on, it has so far not appeared to
have
any issues.   We have logged about 1 machine-day to test time on the
transmitter side, for reference the 99UC driver was going out in under
.1
machine-hours of time with apic on and lasting about 1-2 machine-hours
with apic off.

With noapic we have probably logged 10-15 machine-days with no issues.

All of the above are on linux 2.2.20.

			Roger

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bogdan Costescu [SMTP:bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de]
> Sent:	 1/ 23/ 2002 12:05 PM
> To:	Heflin, Roger A.
> Cc:	Donald Becker; vortex@scyld.com
> Subject:	RE: [vortex] Problem with built-in dual 3c982, Dual AMD
> S2462 MB.
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Heflin, Roger A. wrote:
> 
> > On Linux 2.2.20 the 3c982 driver that comes with it (18Feb01),
> appears
> > to work correctly.
> > ...
> > All tests were done with APIC off.
> 
> I know that you already spent a lot of time on this, but would it be 
> possible to test 2.2.20 with its own driver (that one that works) with
> 
> APIC on ?
> 
> I don't know exactly what are the differences between the vanilla
> 2.2.20 
> driver and Don's; to me it looks like there is a race somewhere in the
> Tx 
> path. Unfortunately I'm very busy at the moment and I can't spend much
> 
> time on this...
> 
> --
> Bogdan Costescu
> 
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