Subject: Re: i386 com performance on 1.3beta.
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 12/24/1997 14:44:02
>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> writes:
    Christoph> No, you're not running the latest code:

  I upgraded, rebuilt, tried again, rebuilt, same results.
  I then noticed that only com3-6 were broken. They are on an AST card.

  When I updated my kernel config file, I neglected to account for the
fact my AST 4-port card is on IRQ 2 instead of 5. What is strange is that
anything worked at all...
  I know why it worked: ep0 is on IRQ5, and the system was happy to poll two
devices on every network interrupt! I wish there was some way to diagnose
this easier. Shouldn't I have seen spurious interupts on IRQ 9?

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