Subject: Re: 1.6 on IPC (tagged queuing bug still there)
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/05/2002 19:09:39
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <Pine.NEB.4.44.0209041209590.358-100000@moss.i.formula1.com>
> abs@netbsd.org wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> > > I think everyone here is missing an important issue: the class of disks
> > > that are likely to be still present in SS1/SS2 and SS10 machines may
> > > report the ability to do tagged queing but are in fact broken WRT tagged
> > > q'ing.
> > >
> > > I would recommend making it an option you can *enable* for such systems.
> >
> > That was what I was originally trying to suggest - but I think
> > I may not have made it clear, and been sidetracked by the patches
> > :)
>
> Hmm, maybe there are two (or more) problems on sparc esp.
> Anyway, we can disable tagged queuing on sparc by config flags.
I think the point is the default should be to disable it until
someone can fix it - as is now NetBSD will fail to run out of
the box on some drives.
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