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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 07:23:41 -0800
From: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/busdma index.sgml style.css (fwd)
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Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Maxime Henrion writes:
>  > Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > Robert Watson writes:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Hey Alpha Folks,
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Was wondering what the status of busdma support on Alpha is, in particular
>  > >  > regarding dmamap_load_mbuf().  In order to maximize the portability of
>  > > 
>  > > AFAIK, the busdma interface for nic drivers is totally untested on
>  > > alpha, as there are no nic drivers for common hardware that I'm aware
>  > > of which use busdma.  Has anybody converted dc, fxp or xl yet?
>  > 
>  > I'm currently working on xl(4) conversion, and will take care of fxp(4)
>  > once it's done.  I'd be happy to send you patches so that you can test
>  > it on alpha and fix busdma so that it works if necessary.  I would
>  > definitely feel bad about breaking alpha support since those drivers (at
>  > least xl(4)) currently work on alpha with the alpha_XXX_dmamap() hack.
>  > 
> 
> Please do send patches.  I've got an xl(4) here sitting in an alpha.

I just finished the xl(4) conversion.  It works fine with my two xl(4)
cards on my x86 box.  You can find the patch at :
	http://mu.org/~mux/if_xl.patch

Please let me know if it works on alpha too!

Thanks,
Maxime

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