From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:34:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from alpha.total-knowledge.com ([205.217.158.170]:53692 "EHLO total-knowledge.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20039704AbWJXPeL (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:34:11 +0100 Received: (qmail 32255 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2006 08:34:00 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.236?) (ilya@209.157.142.202) by alpha.total-knowledge.com with ESMTPA; 24 Oct 2006 08:34:00 -0700 Message-ID: <453E3264.6000405@total-knowledge.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:33:56 -0700 From: "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" Organization: Total Knowledge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060918) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralf Baechle CC: Karl-Johan Karlsson , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Extreme system overhead on large IP27 References: <200610212159.04965.creideiki+linux-mips@ferretporn.se> <20061022232316.GA19127@linux-mips.org> <20061023001947.GA10853@linux-mips.org> <200610232330.23498.creideiki+linux-mips@ferretporn.se> <20061023224318.GA1732@linux-mips.org> <53979.136.163.203.3.1161698036.squirrel@www.ferretporn.se> <20061024140614.GB27800@linux-mips.org> In-Reply-To: <20061024140614.GB27800@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13088 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ilya@total-knowledge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:53:56PM +0200, Karl-Johan Karlsson wrote: > >> Now that I actually look at Gentoo's patchset, I see there's a large patch >> (misc-2.6.17-ioc3-metadriver-r26.patch) touching serial and ethernet >> drivers for the IOC3. Perhaps the snapshot actually did boot, but just >> couldn't talk to me without that patch? The patch doesn't apply to the >> current git, though, so I think I'll leave that to someone who knows what >> they're doing. >> > > That metadriver thing is primarily necessary for the sake of Octanes. > Actually I wasn't able to get my O2K to boot without it, last time I tried. > Ralf > -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh Total Knowledge. CTO http://www.total-knowledge.com