Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:03:48 EDT From: Bsdguru@aol.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3 Message-ID: <82.d1cd459.28848684@aol.com>
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In a message dated 07/16/2001 1:54:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, soren@soekris.com writes: > > Maybe at some point he'll "get" that the boundry issue is a pci bus- > mastering > > spec issue and not a controller design flaw, as he seems to harp on this > in > > just about every driver? > > That's incorrect, there no nothing limiting a PCI device for doing > busmastering on a byte boundary.... The reason why not that many devices > support it, especially on the receive side, is that the circuit gets > more complicated. > the fact that you can "fudge" it in circuitry doesnt change the way that transfers work. B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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