Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, that is going to be a problem. Crypto benifits more from open source than any other market segment, and binary only drivers for linux are not the way to go. I guess I need to get rid of my 5-10 3cr990s and replace them with someone else's

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Kip Macy wrote: As I mentioned previously IP heavy is a euphemism for commodity. ...and 3Com is notoriuos for putting out commodity, cheesy hardware. Kelsey Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer Compendium Technologies,

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread nick
I've installed several thousand 3com cards of various ages and types. I've had less than 20 bad cards. Nick On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, that is going to be a problem. Crypto benifits more from open source than

how to patch driver into kernel

2001-06-14 Thread Rich . Liu
hi: I write a serial driver for linux , and have a personal test . I went to patch this driver into kernel but I don't know how to contact serial.c author .. can any one help me ? rich.liu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-14 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2001 23:05, you wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: Hi, Wait a minute... Spinlocks on a embedded system? Is it _really_ SMP? The embedded system is not SMP. However, there is definite advantage to

Re: how to patch driver into kernel

2001-06-14 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:09:13AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: hi: I write a serial driver for linux , and have a personal test . I went to patch this driver into kernel but I don't know how to contact serial.c author .. can any one help me ? Look at MAINTAINERS in your

Re: SMP spin-locks

2001-06-14 Thread David Lang
I thought that when you compiled a kernel as UP it replaced the spin-lock macros with versions that are blank. As a result a UP kernel spends no time doing spinlocks at all. that's why a SMP kernel on a UP box is slightly slower, there is more code to be executed David Lang On Thu, 14 Jun

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Peddemors
This seems to be drifting into that old argument(s) of a forked kernel.. And of course here I am adding to the flotsams..and threadsomes 2.5 for Pentium Plus generation. 2.4 For older hardware.. Ducking the inevitable flames, I think for the most part, there might be justification for some

Intel PRO/16 sudden latency problems

2001-06-14 Thread Lee Cremeans
I'm using an old Inel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA (i82595-based) to connect my testbox (AMD K6-3 400, VIA MVP3 chipset, running Debian woody with kernel 2.4.5) to my home LAN, which connects to the net through 608/128 kbit ADSL. The problem I'm seeing is after long periods of sustained activity, the

Re: Client receives TCP packets but does not ACK

2001-06-14 Thread Robert Kleemann
A couple people have requested a test case. The problem first showed up in a very large java app. Since then I wrote a small perl program to duplicate the behavior of the large app by sending the same data, in the same order, in the same sized blocks, from the server to the client. If you want

[OT] Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Brent D. Norris
Insteresting that this thread fell into this. I just had one of those cards that came across my desk phreak out. It was 2 days old and placed in a win2k server. Last night it started dumping errors about firmware and bad microcde. Have yet to test it out on another machine, but I beleive the

Re: Buddy System bitmaps

2001-06-14 Thread alad
well... I doubt whether buddy allocator would take u to a situation where pages 0 and 2 are used and 1 and 3 are free... try reading __get_free_pages in mm/page_alloc.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/15/2001 12:39:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Amol Lad/HSS) Subject: Buddy System

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Re: 2.4.6-pre2, pre3 VM Behavior

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Roger Larsson wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2001 10:47, Daniel Phillips wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2001 05:16, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Tom Sightler wrote: Quoting Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After the initial burst, the system should

Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

2001-06-14 Thread David S. Miller
Jeff Garzik writes: I think rth requested pci_ioremap also... It really isn't needed, and I understand why Linus didn't like the idea either. Because you can encode the bus etc. info into the resource addresses themselves. On sparc64 we just so happen to stick raw physical addresses into

Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

2001-06-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
It's funny you mention this because I have been working on something similar recently. Basically making xfree86 int10 and VGA poking happy on sparc64. Heh, world is small ;) But this has no real use in the kernel. (actually I take this back, read below) yup, fbcon at least... You have a

Re: more on VIA 686B (trials)

2001-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
Abit KT7A, kernel oops right after boot... :( Can be solved to turning off 'Enhance Chip Performance' in the BIOS, but then our chip performance is un'Enhance'd, and we can't have that! So back to the K6 kernel. And praying it doesnt go wrong on you - has it not occurred to you that the

Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

2001-06-14 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
David S. Miller writes: Jeff Garzik writes: According to the PCI spec it is -impossible- to have more than 256 buses on a single hose, so you simply have to implement multiple hoses, just like Alpha (and Sparc64?) already do. That's how the hardware is forced to implement it... Right,

Re: Linux-2.4.6-pre3

2001-06-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:39:49PM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote: First off, the patch went into a pre-release of the kernel. Never would I trust a pre-release to be stable. The issue is that of interface stability, as I'm sure you know. Second of all, if you look at the big picture, you may

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-14 Thread Ghozlane Toumi
- Original Message - From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: obsolete code must die Would it make sense to create some sort of 'make config' script that determines what you want in your kernel and then downloads only those components? After all, with the constant release of

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-14 Thread James Sutherland
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Would it make sense to create some sort of 'make config' script that determines what you want in your kernel and then downloads only those components? After all, with the constant release of new hardware, isn't a 50MB kernel release not too far away?

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
any problems since 2.4.5 was published, they seem to have surfaced immediately after I created a rather big file capturing video with broadcast2000 (video card is bt848). Filesystem is ext2. Thats something I've seen reported elsehwere. The high bandwidth capture card stuff seems to show up

Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T

2001-06-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Riley Williams wrote: Hi Ion. Shawn, I'd suggest you tell the said sales guy that IF he can get you the FULL specs TOGETHER WITH permission to freely distribute them... Permission to freely distribute the specs isn't necessary, although it is nice indeed. All that's needed

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