[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_148 available

[Jeremy Thornhill]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos
<asyropoulos at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> First of all, I need to congratulate all those that worked hard to make this
> release a reality. Now, I have successfully updated my system to OI_148 from
> the previous version. However, I have noticed that the 32bit rge driver is
> buggy:
>
> when one attempts to download something big, after a while speed drops
> dramatically
>
> until all connections are closed. A workaround is to use the gani driver from
> http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ Since the gani driver works
> as it should, I just wonder why keeping the bugy rge driver?
>

This sounds like a bug I encountered a while back:

https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10710

When I was running opensolaris I used a modified rge binary driver
from Masa (who also wrote that gani driver) which he posted in this
thread:

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=116005

I was under the impression that at least some of his changes had been
merged at some point, as upgrading to OI seemed to resolve my issues
(on amd64, at least). I guess there's a lot of different hardware
variations covered by the rge driver though, so it could be hardware
specific.

Jeremy