From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 10:13:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA26098 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:13:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA26092 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA25686; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:04:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703111804.LAA25686@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: performance (was: 100 Mb/s cards) To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:04:06 -0700 (MST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970311102342.00b05710@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Mar 11, 97 10:23:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The comment implies that there is something "stupid" about the controllers > quad alignment requirement, but whoever wrote that should know that all > PCI bus master accesses MUST be quad aligned as a basic requirement > of the spec. I just looked at my copy of the PCI spec., and I didn't see this. Can you point me to where this is stated? The spec. does, however, cover byte operands for supporing inb/outb operations.... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.