Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated?

Frank de Lange (frank@unternet.org)
Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:26:46 +0100


On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:19:53PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > In addition, I patched apic.c (focus cpu enabled)
> > In addition, I patched io_apic ((TARGET_CPUS 0xff)
>
> please try it with the focus CPU enabling change (we want to enable that
> feature, i only disabled it due to the stuck-ne2k bug), but with
> TARGET_CPUS set to cpu_online_mask. (this later is needed for certain
> crappy BIOSes.)

WITH or WITHOUT the changed 8390 driver? I can already give you the results for
running WITH the changed driver: it works. I have not yet tried it WITHOUT the
changed 8390 driver (so that would be stock 8390, patched apic.c, stock
io_apic.c). Please let me know which you want...

Frank

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