Re: Linux 2.1.69..

B. James Phillippe (bryan@Terran.ORG)
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:28:19 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Alan Cox wrote:

> > We'd really like to see the PC speaker driver make it into 2.2, along with
> > a version of 3c59x.c recent enough to handle Boomerang cards.
>
> There is no SMP safe and clean PC speaker right now. As to the 3c59x, several
> of us are currently trying to pin down exactly the patterns of failure to
> help get a good 3c59x for 2.0 and 2.1

FWIW, 3c59x version 47 fixed all my ailments, and has been driving boxes
with 3 3c905's strong and solid under extreme traffic. In a short email
exchange with Donald Becker, he mentioned that there will probably be a
48.

cheers,
-bp

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