From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 8:14: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDC137B6C4; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA02647; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:18:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006011518.LAA02647@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 11:18:36 -0400 To: Mike Smith , Joy Ganguly From: Dennis Subject: Re: S5933 PCI Adapter..?? Cc: freebsd-hackers In-Reply-To: <200006010031.RAA02574@mass.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:31 PM 5/31/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> hi all, >> >> i have a atm oc3 care which uses the amcc S5933 PCI adapter. however the >> driver reports "unable to map mem" at boot time. i used pciconf to read >> the configuration space base address registers and all of them showed >> 0x00000000. however when i write all 1's t the base registers they give >> me the proper mask. the device and vendor id configuration registers >> show the right values. i think the bios is unable to assign physical >> addresses. Have you done bus performance testing with this card? Given the architechture of the AMCC part, it seems highly improbable that you will be able to get high throughput with such a card. Because the AMCC part requires external logic it is impossible to do pass-through single cycle bursts, which is required for efficient utilization of the PCI bus. Once you begin holding off cycles the PCI bus totally pigs out (which is why virtually all high-speed pci solutions are single-chip type designs). Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message