From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 17: 0: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A2E37B643 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 16:59:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00352; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:59:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:59:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200007162359.TAA00352@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S) In-Reply-To: <200007161841.LAA23975@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200007160809.SAA21950@dungeon.home> <200007161841.LAA23975@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Ohh... and a finally note, DEC blew the chip design by only including > a 160byte threshold point given that PCI 2.0 spec says it should have > been 500bytes!! It wouldn't be the first thing DEC had screwed up in the design of these NICs. On the other hand, Intel has owned the silicon for a couple of years now, which is more than enough time to unscrew it if they really wanted to. Clearly, they'd rather be selling 82559s.... -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message