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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:46:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/busdma index.sgml style.css (fwd)
Message-ID:  <15860.62239.549294.224934@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021209194400.GA27086@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021209130854.19409C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <15860.58186.22476.565069@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021209194400.GA27086@elvis.mu.org>

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Maxime Henrion writes:
 > Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > 
 > > Robert Watson writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Hey Alpha Folks,
 > >  > 
 > >  > Was wondering what the status of busdma support on Alpha is, in particular
 > >  > regarding dmamap_load_mbuf().  In order to maximize the portability of
 > > 
 > > AFAIK, the busdma interface for nic drivers is totally untested on
 > > alpha, as there are no nic drivers for common hardware that I'm aware
 > > of which use busdma.  Has anybody converted dc, fxp or xl yet?
 > 
 > I'm currently working on xl(4) conversion, and will take care of fxp(4)
 > once it's done.  I'd be happy to send you patches so that you can test
 > it on alpha and fix busdma so that it works if necessary.  I would
 > definitely feel bad about breaking alpha support since those drivers (at
 > least xl(4)) currently work on alpha with the alpha_XXX_dmamap() hack.
 > 

Please do send patches.  I've got an xl(4) here sitting in an alpha.

Drew

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