From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: "Carsten Langgaard" <carstenl@mips.com>,
"Michael Shmulevich" <michaels@jungo.com>,
<linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:00:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010126130044.E869@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> Note, however, that the Tulip driver that was part of the
> standard 2.2/2.3 repository at oss.sgi.com was both
> downrev with regard to the author's own web site and
> subobtimal if not outright buggy in it's cache management.
> The AMD PCnet driver as we found it was clean and efficient
> but had no MIPS cache hooks. I had to put those in.
> So unless Ralf or someone at SGI that the versions
> on oss.sgi.com are the versions I cleaned up for MIPS,
> I would recommend pulling them off the MIPS site.
Linux 2.4 has a new DMA API which is documented in
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt. So today drivers which don't work out of
the box on a MIPS system should be considered broken.
Ralf
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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>,
Michael Shmulevich <michaels@jungo.com>,
linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:00:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010126130044.E869@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20010126210044.iBTI9gn1Dnqr3rz8oLAQy2vVI2M_RC9bZlHj-DIA93o@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> Note, however, that the Tulip driver that was part of the
> standard 2.2/2.3 repository at oss.sgi.com was both
> downrev with regard to the author's own web site and
> subobtimal if not outright buggy in it's cache management.
> The AMD PCnet driver as we found it was clean and efficient
> but had no MIPS cache hooks. I had to put those in.
> So unless Ralf or someone at SGI that the versions
> on oss.sgi.com are the versions I cleaned up for MIPS,
> I would recommend pulling them off the MIPS site.
Linux 2.4 has a new DMA API which is documented in
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt. So today drivers which don't work out of
the box on a MIPS system should be considered broken.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-26 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-25 22:06 MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-25 22:16 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-26 7:42 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-26 7:43 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-26 11:45 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-26 11:45 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2001-01-26 11:47 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-26 11:49 ` Carsten Langgaard
2001-01-26 21:00 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-01-26 21:00 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-25 22:22 ` Pete Popov
2001-01-25 22:29 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-26 7:56 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-26 7:56 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-26 18:17 ` Pete Popov
2001-01-27 8:58 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-27 21:31 ` Pete Popov
2001-01-28 10:20 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-27 19:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-01-28 10:11 ` Michael Shmulevich
2001-01-26 19:53 ` Jun Sun
2001-01-27 19:25 ` Ralf Baechle
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