From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Wade Hampton <whampton@staffnet.com>,
Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:51:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010404235124.B3102@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010330190137.A426@indiana.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103311541300.406-100000@fs131-224.f-secure.com> <20010403202127.A316@bacchus.dhis.org> <3ACB2323.C1653236@mips.com> <3ACB3CA5.D978EF41@staffnet.com> <3ACB8098.DFEC12D7@vc.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To: <3ACB8098.DFEC12D7@vc.cvut.cz>; from vandrove@vc.cvut.cz on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:14:16PM -0700
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:14:16PM -0700, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> VMware is working on implementation PCnet 32bit mode in emulation (there
> is no such thing now because of no OS except FreeBSD needs it). But
> my question is - is there some real benefit in running chip in
> 32bit mode?
probably not.
> so is 32bit mode needed for bigendian ports, or what's reasoning
> behind it?
I've added 32bit mode for some IBM PowerPC machines. The firmware
on this machines setup the chip to DWIO and I haven't found a way
to switch it back to WIO.
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a
good idea. [ Alexander Viro on linux-kernel ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-04 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-31 0:01 pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3 Scott G. Miller
2001-03-31 0:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-31 13:58 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2001-04-03 18:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-03 18:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-04-04 13:35 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-04 15:24 ` Wade Hampton
2001-04-04 20:14 ` Petr Vandrovec
2001-04-04 21:51 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2001-04-04 23:22 ` Petr Vandrovec
2001-04-05 7:26 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-04-05 7:15 ` Carsten Langgaard
[not found] ` <2001040423 <3ACC1E35.4D2F7506@mips.com>
2001-04-05 18:27 ` Petr Vandrovec
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