Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 20:57:57 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: arch@freebsd.org Cc: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled Message-ID: <20080526205757.6e49abba@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <483AF194.2020002@digiware.nl> References: <20080524111715.T64552@fledge.watson.org> <1211640498.1510.8.camel@localhost> <20080524165519.K9809@fledge.watson.org> <e7db6d980805241656q30193933hcd983b6322d02df8@mail.gmail.com> <20080525105726.O39741@fledge.watson.org> <5D4AF8D7-88A7-4197-A0FE-7CA992EE5F96@FreeBSD.org> <20080526163844.GA37636@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <483AF194.2020002@digiware.nl>
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 19:21:24 +0200 Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:34:09AM -0700, Ade Lovett wrote: > >> idiosyncratic situations (yes, ahc(4), I'm looking at you) for 5+ > > > > What's the problem with ahc(4)? My ahc controller is one of > > the most reliable pieces of hardware that I've purchased. > > It's also the only interface available to my external DLT > > tape drive. > > Not to forget the large amount of embedded ahc's that got implemented on > all kinds of serverbords. I still have quite a large set of customers > with such ASUS boards I sold to them over the years. Up 'till now I've > been able to keep 'm running with the pace of FreeBSD. > Removing this driver would "leave them behind". > > I can force them to upgrade, but thus far there has been little reason > for that (hardware wise). > [pruned the over-zealous CCs] Well, one problem with ahc is that it doesn't play nicely with >= 4GB of memory on AMD64. I have ahc and 4GB of memory and have to set hw.physmem="3500m" in /boot/loader.conf to keep it from dumping its cookies at boot time. Otherwise I'm more than happy with my 29160N. --- Gary Jennejohn
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