Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:37:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S) Message-ID: <200007170037.RAA24682@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200007162359.TAA00352@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jul 16, 2000 07:59:54 pm"
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> <<On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> 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.... As far as I can tell the fxp driver doesn't even use the tx_fifo in the 825xxx chips :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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