From: Bob Beck (beckbofh.cns.ualberta.ca)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 00:42:20 CDT

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        the idle loop problem will affect any driver that uses
tsleep where stuff might need to be serviced from the idle loop.

        the bge booboo I found and fixed earlier with krw was
that of it not testing correctly if interrupts were for itself
in the shared interrupt case. totally different animal.

        -bob

* Sean Knox <seanobstacle9.com> [2005-06-01 18:57]:
> Marco Peereboom wrote:
>
> >I remember that there was a boo boo in the bge interrupt handler.
> >beck found it and I believe krw fixed it. If you can you should try
> >something newer, like -current or whenever brad the latest releases
> >3.7 errata that includes the "idle loop fix".
>
> Does this affect other NIC chipsets as well? Bob's message on kerneltrap
> said the idle loop adjustment affects "everything on i386".
>
> sk
>

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