From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:46:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040124224635.GA3448@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4012F2B7.3080800@gmx.net>
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> >>>Do you have specs that show that all nForce versions support unaligned
> >>>buffers? skb_reserve is a performance feature, I don't want to add it
> >>>yet. Testing that it works is on our TODO list.
> >>
> >>hmmmm, is nForce ever found on non-x86 boxes? I would think that
> >>skb_reserve might be -required- for some platforms.
> >
> >
> > AMD64 and PPC64 as far as I know. But you may consider the first one
> > still a x86 box.
>
> Hmmm. I thought only GeForce graphics were available on PPC64 and nForce
> mainboard chipsets (including the onboard nic) were not.
Well, my memory may be tricking me (I'm not really sure about this), but
I remember there was supposed to be a PPC64 northbridge with a HT link,
made exactly for the purpose of connecting an nForce southrbridge to it.
But it definitely is not in production yet.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-24 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-24 18:53 [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver Manfred Spraul
2004-01-24 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 21:55 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 23:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 22:05 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-24 22:33 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 22:46 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-01-24 23:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-27 13:30 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-05 0:52 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-02-05 9:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 17:11 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 21:24 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-25 0:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 18:59 ` Francois Romieu
2004-01-24 19:02 ` Manfred Spraul
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