Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:24:19 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for new ThunderLAN driver Message-ID: <199809010024.SAA05448@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199808311728.NAA04332@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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> - Added code to raise the PCI latency timer value all the way up, as > recommended by the manual. Please don't do this (at least not by default). If the PCI bus is idle, the card will be able to burst as long as it wants. If the PCI bus isn't very idle, the other devices on the bus will experience un-fair latency because your driver has unilaterally decide that it deserves more bus time than everyone else. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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