twa kernel panic under heavy IO

[Vinod Kashyap]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Fosdick [mailto:bfoz at bfoz.net] 
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:50 PM
> To: Vinod Kashyap
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org; Jung-uk Kim; Dan Rue
> Subject: Re: twa kernel panic under heavy IO
> 
> Vinod Kashyap wrote:
> > Under 'Release Notes to View', select 
> '<release>_Release_Notes_Web', 
> > and you will get to a page which lists the version of each 
> individual 
> > component that's part of the release, among other things.
> 
> :) I would have known that if Firefox wasn't barfing on PDF's 
> right now, or if I had bothered to boot my laptop (OSX).
> 
> The "Release Details" section has a note that reads "Linux 
> and FreeBSD drivers are bundled with firmware 2.08.00.003". 
> What does that mean? Do the drivers in 5-stable have a copy 
> of the firmware embedded in them? Is the driver going to try 
> and downgrade my firmware?
> 

The drivers in the kernel tree are not bundled with the firmware
image by default.  You can bundle them by turning on a switch
in the Makefile.  A bundled driver will download the firmware if
the running firmware is from a different release (9.1*, 9.2* etc.),
or if the running firmware is an older version from the release
corresponding to that of the driver.

> > The 9.2* versions are compatible.  There are small 
> incompatibilities 
> > if you are mixing 9.1* and 9.2*.
> > 
> >>And since we're here...is there any reason to update to 9.3 
> if I only 
> >>have a 9500S?
> 
> Good to know.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply. FWIW I went with 3ware because I 
> saw somewhere that a 3ware person was supposedly on this 
> list. Glad to see it wasn't a rumor.
> 

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