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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:25:42 -0400 (EDT)
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: virtually contig jumbo mbufs (was Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot)
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John Polstra writes:
 > In article <20020705132735.A873@unixdaemons.com>,
 > Bosko Milekic  <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> wrote:
 > > 
 > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:45:01AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
 > > > The BCM570x chips (bge driver) definitely need a single physically
 > > > contiguous buffer for each received packet.
 > > 
 > >   This is totally ridiculous for gigE hardware, IMO.
 > 
 > WHOOPS, I'm afraid I have to correct myself.  The BCM570x chips do
 > indeed support multiple buffers for jumbo packets.  I'm sorry for the
 > earlier misinformation!

Are programming docs for this board available?

BTW, it looks like nge will do scatter/gather too.


Drew

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