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To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.ORG>
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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.

Drew

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