Hi Jan, Jan Ceuleers wrote: > Hi Soren, > > On 11/10/10 14:10, Soren Kristensen wrote: > > Oh and BTW: my main server happens to have nearly the same NIC (yeah I > know: a "main server" whose network interface is only 100 Mbit/s :-) and > it doesn't crash like this. It's a Via VT6102 Rhine-II instead of the > VT6105M Rhine-III that's in the 5501. Runs exactly the same OS, and it > is the very same driver that is used for both parts. > > Would be a shame though: I run the same version of Ubuntu on all the > machinery here, which is great from a admin perspective.
Oe thing about drivers, our small "slow" embedded computers can provoke driver/software errors that are normally "masked" by faster processors, as Andrew say: > 1. About Linux VIA driver - it have race condition issue (somewhere in > interrupt handler I think). > System just hangs if payload on interface is high. But if U build > kernel with spinlocks, semaphores, mutexes and etc. debug - driver > works just fine. Best Regards, Soren Kristensen CEO & Chief Engineer Soekris Engineering, Inc. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
