From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 6 3:29:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAECD14BC9 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 03:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA10851; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 03:27:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907061027.DAA10851@implode.root.com> To: brian@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default gnome configuration In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 22:48:07 PDT." <19990706054807.19419.rocketmail@web1002.mail.yahoo.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:27:56 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Last time I tried submitting anything it was dismissed > without > >even a test because D. Greenman didn't seem to want anyone > else > >touching his NE2000 driver. Thus the full duplex operation > >memory size bug remains in place. > > Huh? Whatever gave you that idea? > >I wrote you directly following discussions in the mailing lists >regarding slow transmissions. The problem had turned out to be >non-detection and non-support of NE2000 cards with full-duplex >mode transceivers. I first sent a patch that prevented the rx >buffer spilling into the tx buffer and kept seperate pointers >for both, properly reflecting the effective half memory sizes. I >later wrote with specifications I argued out of D-Link which >clarified duplex card detection as well as information on better >supporting JITI (adjustable buffer fill interrupt triggers) >transfers. > >Last I looked no changes had been made to if_ed.c. I since moved >to a 3c905 based card, so I dropped it. I've apparantly completely spaced it since I don't even remember seeing those patches. I don't appear to have anything saved in my mailbox about it, either. Did I reply with something that indicated that I saw them?? The last thing I recall seeing which was NE2000 related were some patches from Jonathan Bresler that added support for a Linksys PCMCIA card, to which I replied that the detection test was weak and may false-identify non-Linksys cards. In any case, I've been out of town a lot recently and have been too busy to deal with a lot of things like this. I really don't think it is fair to me for you to make baseless accusations of me 'dismissing' a submission due to some sort of pride/territory problem. That simply isn't the way that I operate and I'm truely sorry that you've gotten that impression. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message