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Old 02-16-2008, 06:23 AM
Bob Healey
 
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Default Re: Sun be driver on sparc 64?

Miod Vallat wrote:
>>Does the sun be 10/100 sbus ethernet card work on sparc64? It works
>>just fine more me on sparc32, but on sparc64 I get DMA errors and the
>>card is unusable. According to the docs, the NIC is supported on both
>>platforms.

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> It works, but on some PCI cards with on-board PCI bridges, interrupt
> swizzling problems prevent the interfaces from working.
>
> This is a known issue for which there is currently no good workaround,
> but which might eventually be fixed.
>
> If your card is an SBus card, then this is a new issue; please report
> the problem with sendbug.


This is the sbus card - I don't have the most recent flash revision on
my system, so I want to update that first. The machine is an Ultra 1.
The card works just fine on a Sparc-Station 5. I am running 3.6 with
all the erratta applied.

Bob Healey
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