Michael Lorenz wrote:

> the hardware notes claim that the awacs driver can cause trouble on 
> some G4 Macs, hints about interrupt storms. I've never had any trouble 
> with this driver but I don't have an awacs-equipped G4 either - just a 
> G3 and a PowerBook. My guess is that those problems were caused by the 
> old, horribly buggy interrupt code which has been improved a lot in the 
> last two years.

Unfortunately there is still a problem with it, at least with NetBSD 3.1.1.

I like to hear to a radio live stream while compiling and developing, and
after a few minutes it happened: complete lockup of the system! The only
life-sign was that I could still ping the machine, but not log-in.

This is a PowerMac G4 (Sawtooth) 400 MHz with 1.25 GB RAM. The load was not
too high (mainly caused by Firefox). I was just starting a new live stream on
xmms when it happened.

Did the interrupt code improve from 3.1 to 4.0, or in current? Then I might
test that again.

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