Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:48:08 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= <spartak@aif.ru>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: sem@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sio driver sucks Message-ID: <200611131447.kADElvjo044200@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <455858A3.9060701@aif.ru> References: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org> <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <455858A3.9060701@aif.ru>
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=3DCE=3DCB=3DCF?=3D wrote:
>O. Hartmann =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
>>Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>>
>>>Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable?
>>>
>>>There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a
>>>nightmare. There was a report about one crash with a message about a
>>>spinlock holed more than 5 seconds (there is no core dump because it has
>>>not repeated).
>>>
>>>After a discussion in a Russian FIDO group I've change it on uart and
>>>the problems gone.
>>>
>>>I think a default driver should be changed from sio to uart until it
>>>will be fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Had those overflows many times when I used FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE,
>>6.1-STABLE and a modem.
>>But this never had a so bad influence forcing me into using uart.
>>
>I had serious problems with sio on Intel STL2=20
>motherboard and recent stable. Massive silo=20
>overflows (modem was almost unusable) and at=20
>least 1 sio-related panic (spinlock held for=20
>more than 5 sec). Now I changed sio to uart ant=20
>it works like a charm. All problems gone.
How do you switch it from sio to uart on RELENG_6 ?
---Mike
>--
>Spartak Radchenko SVR1-RIPE
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