From owner-freebsd-commit Sat Oct 28 04:27:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA04908 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:27:00 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA04890 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:26:57 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA04880 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:26:54 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA04871 ; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:26:49 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA00189; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:25:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA00232; Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:25:14 -0700 Message-Id: <199510281125.EAA00232@corbin.Root.COM> To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, matt@lkg.dec.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_de.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 95 13:42:45 BST." <199510261242.AA24313@Sysiphos> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 04:25:09 -0700 Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >There is a global variable for the purpose of determining >the maximum burst length. It is currently initialized to >4 longwords, but I guess having it default to 8 would be >Ok. (We reduced it to 4 because of a problem reported by >Matt Thomas with an old Saturn chip set revision). So what is the conclusion - is it safe to increase the default burst size to 8 longwords, or does this indeed cause problems for the Saturn chipset? -DG