From: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:57:24 -0500 > Rewind a few years, I don't suppose you remember the sunhme lockup > issue, of which one ugly workaround was inserting a small delay in the > TX codepath? > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/trunk/2.6.19-pre/1705_sparc-U1-hme-lockup.patch > > Was this ever resolved? This is the last patch in Gentoo's base set of > kernel patches and I'm eager to remove it... > > There is scattered discussion of this bug lying around, e.g. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2003/02/msg00011.html > > but it's not clear if a mainline resolution was ever reached. Do you > know anything about the situation here? I've never seen this problem reappear since gcc-3.x or so. I am pretty sure you can kill that patch safely. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
