Subject: Re: ASDG EB920 ethernet
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/16/1998 11:13:35
> > to:
> >
> > sc->sc_isr.isr_ipl = 6;
> >
> > Then do this [assuming that you are now in the arch/amiga/dev directory]:
> >
> Ouch.. could this not be factored out into something on the attach
> line in the kernel config file?
No. Please not.
Operating random devices at high IPLs does seriously break the kernel
interal locking. If you fix that (see my other posting), you'll get
performance problems.
Regards,
-is