Re: [MiNT] wakegem + naes 2

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:17:01 +0200 (CEST), Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

>> Is wakegem needed to keep naes 2.0 awake?
>>
>> I found v5 of wakegem but it not specifically mention naes 2.0
>> or has the doc just not gotten updated perhaps?
>
>As far as I know it is still needed. It seems this is a kernel problem,
>not any AES (otherwise it would be strange, if all AESes would share same
>bug). But. As of kernel version 1.15.9 or something, the WakeGEM causes
>occasional crashes because, apparently, the kernel's interval timer does
>not work correctly. I have no clue what was changed and where, CHANGES
>file does not indicate anything suspicious (but at the other hand I
>discovered that CHANGES file is often not updated as it should, i.e the
>kernel changes are not reflected there).

Interesting.  Perhaps it was wakegem causing the newer betas to be
unstable here. It was b9 and b10 that I had problems with sudden
freeze ups.

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