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Date:      Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:50:35 -0500
From:      Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>
To:        Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFT] Intel 3945abg wireless driver (wpi)
Message-ID:  <472F119B.4050803@protected-networks.net>
In-Reply-To: <472A6708.9030109@clearchain.com>
References:  <472A6708.9030109@clearchain.com>

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Benjamin Close wrote:
> Howdy All,           I'm pleased to announce the first 'official'
> experimental version of the wpi wireless driver and hence require your
> help in making it become stable.
> Expect a few things not to work (ie bg scanning, setting txpower) but in
> general the driver should be usable in station mode (hostap is not yet
> supported).

With respect to 16k alignment .. it may be acceptable for this to fail
at boot-time (IMHO, barely) but it usually isn't if a machine has been
'up' for a while.

Does the UMA sub-system reliably work with 4k aligned requests? As an
interim hack, I'd be happy to lose 12kB if it meant a 100% success rate
 on my 2GB laptop. There are much worse things ..

The only questions are, not having looked through the code recently (or
the UMA code at all), how many buffer pools are allocated and is it
possible to allocate a chunk of memory contiguously (for all pools) and
assign dma tags once that chunk is 'trimmed' to an acceptable alignment?

	Michael


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