HEADS UP: fxp breakage

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Maxime Henrion wrote:
> 	Hi all,
> 
> 
> I was finally able to reproduce the problems people have been reporting.
> That is, the fxp(4) card works but there are many odd "unknown: DMA
> timeout" and "unknown: device timeout" messages.  This was due to a bug
> in fxp(4) which was harmless unless you used DEVICE_POLLING.  These
> problems go away when using the 1.156 revision of if_fxp.c.
> 
> Please note that other people have been reporting different symptoms, ie
> the card sees no traffic at all.  I'm not sure the latest sources fix
> these cases too, but I'm fairly confident they do, because one person who
> has been reporting me such symptoms was using DEVICE_POLLING too.

Mmmmmm. Now that I think of it, I am too. On this particular machine. I 
had forgotten I had configured DEVICE_POLLING in this host alone... :-( 
Sorry about that. Could have speeded up things some. <sigh>

I'm trying a new kernel now.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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	Spellng is overated anywy.