Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:24:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com> To: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vx device broken in 21.1.5? Message-ID: <199609131324.PAA17480@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960913123758.4396V-100000@minnow.render.com> from Doug Rabson at "Sep 13, 96 12:40:09 pm"
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Doug Rabson wrote: > No idea. Sounds like busted hardware to me. You could always try to > patch it up with some kind of timeout instead of waiting for TX_AVAIL. > Surely the card should at least deliver a transmit-complete interrupt for > the packet which was in the fifo. Maybe you could use that to restart > transmission. > I don't beleive it is the hardware. Lot's of FreeBSD ppl see this while the author of the driver for NetBSD doesn't know this behaviour. Indeed I patched it that way. Though unfortunately it will give less perfomance. -Guido
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