Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:33:14 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xircom Ethernet driver patch for CE2 & CEM33 Message-ID: <20011119213313.A353@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200111190233.fAJ2Xp766696@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:33:51PM -0700 References: <20011119002035.B30992@localhost> <200111190233.fAJ2Xp766696@harmony.village.org>
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:33:51PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20011119002035.B30992@localhost> Scott Mitchell writes: > : - Some changes supplied by Peter Fürst to prevent the driver becoming > : confused about the number of bytes to send, and not sending any > : - A few other minor tweaks > > Any what? Anything at all. It was an off-by-one error -- it seems the CE2 doesn't like to send odd-sized packets, so if you feed the transmitter one less byte than it expects it doesn't send any of them. The CE3 doesn't have this particular behaviour so I hadn't picked up on it. > : Question: is there any way to enforce these restrictions from within the > : driver? The CIS on these cards doesn't appear to give any indication that > : these addresses are not allowed. > > The bus picks address 0xd0000 for memory, and the driver wants to say > "get bent, I can't use that, give me a different one"? I don't think > so. I figured as much... I can come up with some comments to go in pccard.conf above the CE2 entries explaining these restrictions, if that's the best place for them to be. > : I don't have a CE2 card, so I can't verify that these changes will do any > : good at all... however, it still works with my CE3 so I don't think I've > : made anything worse :-) > > I keep meaning to send you a CE2 card. I'll give these tests a try. Cool, and thanks for the patch. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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