Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:40:59 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sio driver sucks Message-ID: <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org> References: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org>
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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. Regards, Oliver
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