Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:47:29 -0500 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: vallo@matti.ee, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with vx0 (3Com) Message-ID: <35DDA4A1.CDD4D346@webwizard.org.mx> References: <199808211624.MAA14366@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Vallo Kallaste > had to walk into mine and say: > > > Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> wrote: > > > > > Anybody tried it with the 3c595, that poor folks like us might still have? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > *** > > > > I can try. About what are you interested ? > > The xl driver is for 3c90x cards only: this includes the 3c900 and 3c905 > "boomerang" adapters and the 3c905B "cyclone" adapters. The 3c59x cards > are based on the "vortex" chipset, which actually does have a DMA mechanism > but not the same as the "boomerang" and "cyclone" chips. The "boomerang" > chips happened to work with the vx driver because 3Com maintained support > for the old PIO packet transfer mechanism that the vx driver uses. But > starting with the 3c905B, the PIO mechanism was dropped and now bus-master > DMA is required. Since all 3c90x cards support the same DMA interface, I > decided to split out all of the 3c90x support from the vx driver. > > The vx driver is still used for the 3c59x PCI cards; I only turned > off support in the vx driver for the Etherlink XL PCI cards, not the > Etherlink III PCI cards. > > -Bill Thanks a lot. You had me worried for a bit :-) ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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