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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:05:11 +0100
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r199670 - head/sys/dev/bge
Message-ID:  <20091123010511.GA14572@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <200911222050.nAMKoRYh029141@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200911222050.nAMKoRYh029141@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 08:50:27PM +0000, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> Log:
>   Fix two long standing bugs on bge(4). Most pre BCM5755 controllers
>   have a DMA bug when buffer address crosses a multiple of the 4GB
>   boundary(e.g. 4GB, 8GB, 12GB etc).

Does this only affect transfers that *cross* a 4GB boundary or does it
also affect transfers that *end* at a 4GB boundary? E.g. if the mbuf
cluster starts at 0xffffff00 with size 0x100 -- will the DMA engine
stall happen or not?

Joerg



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