From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA1588340 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:50:59 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA4310951 for linux-list; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:49:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA4271968 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id PAA03233 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:49:50 -0800 (PST) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:49:29 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m0yIMOh-002OoOC; Fri, 27 Mar 98 00:49 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA03223; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:47:57 +0100 Message-ID: <19980327004757.19715@alpha.franken.de> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:47:57 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Alan Cox Cc: ralf@uni-koblenz.de, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, willmore@cig.mot.com Subject: Re: MIPS 2.1.89 now in CVS References: <19980327000426.03461@alpha.franken.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85 In-Reply-To: ; from Alan Cox on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 11:37:25PM +0000 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 11:37:25PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > PC DMA controller it will be dead slow and a horror to implement (welcome > > to world of 64K segments). If the board has it's own DMA engine, you need > > documentation for it. And without DMA you will need a new driver. > > Can anyone working on generic 53c9x support also talk to the Linux mac folks > who are also working on this right now. the 53c9x mips support is a "port" of the sparc esp driver, which I did based on work from the m68k people (fastlane, blizzard, etc.). And I also verified that the changed esp still runs on a Sparc (at least on my SS2). > Incidentally we'll also be wanting > to abuse the mips sonic driver soon too 8) So I should put fixing it higher on my todo list:-) ? It still has problems with real network traffic. I know the reason, but didn't have time to fix it, yet. Thomas. -- See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too ;-) [Linus Torvalds in <4rikft$7g5@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>]