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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 2002 16:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: virtually contig jumbo mbufs (was Re: new zero copy sockets snapshot)
Message-ID:  <15653.64859.690620.421707@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200207051937.g65Jb6rm003934@vashon.polstra.com>
References:  <20020619090046.A2063@panzer.kdm.org> <20020705132735.A873@unixdaemons.com> <200207051747.g65HliO2003668@vashon.polstra.com> <15653.62134.521004.349089@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200207051937.g65Jb6rm003934@vashon.polstra.com>

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John Polstra writes:
 > In article <15653.62134.521004.349089@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
 > Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
 > >  > 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?
 > 
 > To get them you have to execute an NDA with Broadcom.  So we're
 > effectively limited to what can be gleaned from the Linux driver.  Its
 > header file has a struct declaration for the "T3_EXT_RCV_BD" (extended
 > receive buffer descriptor, probably) but the driver doesn't actually
 > use it.  Without the docs it would take a lot of trial & error to
 > figure out how to make it work.

Not necessarily.  It just looked at the struct def.  To me, it looks
*exactly* like the equivalent tigon-2 struct.  This makes sense, as
its a descendant of the tigon-2.   

It should work just fine..  (easy for me to say, as I don't have a
card to test it on).


Drew

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