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Re: Extreme system overhead on large IP27

To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Extreme system overhead on large IP27
From: "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:33:56 -0700
Cc: Karl-Johan Karlsson <creideiki+linux-mips@ferretporn.se>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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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
>   

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