Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:59:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S) Message-ID: <200007162359.TAA00352@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200007161841.LAA23975@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200007160809.SAA21950@dungeon.home> <200007161841.LAA23975@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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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.... -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
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