Andi Kleen wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:49:34 +0100 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

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The nic timer interrupt programming been fixed since forcedeth 0.22 although various testers have confirmed that disabling the timer interrupt since 0.14 already fixed the storms for them.

Thanks for the correction. I guess we'll still need to wait a bit for it to settle down, although it seems to look mostly good.

One of the SUSE AMD64 machines served as a testing harness and I can't complain about problems. I will try to get a few more tests run by someone inside SUSE but for now I can at least confirm that forcedeth never locks up whereas nvnet does that from time to time. (on 32bit platforms)

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If you want a SUSE kernel with forcedeth support, try either 2.6.x from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kraxel/ or download forcedeth.o for k_athlon-2.4.21-166 from http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/

Note the name of the list. A 32bit driver is unlikely to work.

Yes. That's why I included the people/kraxel URL. AFAIK he has 2.6 kernels for AMD64 available. If you have any questions about forcedeth, just ask (and CC: me just in case I unsubscribe from suse-amd64 again). Regards, Carl-Daniel