From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:46 -0800 Received: from sgi.SGI.COM ([192.48.153.1]:33909 "EHLO sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:34 -0800 Received: from dhcp-163-154-5-240.engr.sgi.com ([163.154.5.240]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id NAA08580 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:33 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:00:54 -0800 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:00:44 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: "Carsten Langgaard" , "Michael Shmulevich" , Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards Message-ID: <20010126130044.E869@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A70A356.F3CA71F1@jungo.com> <20010125141632.B2311@bacchus.dhis.org> <3A712A52.FAC574F1@mips.com> <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:00:44 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards Message-ID: <20010126130044.E869@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A70A356.F3CA71F1@jungo.com> <20010125141632.B2311@bacchus.dhis.org> <3A712A52.FAC574F1@mips.com> <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <019b01c0878d$8ac9e6c0$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Return-Path: To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Carsten Langgaard , Michael Shmulevich , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20010126210044.iBTI9gn1Dnqr3rz8oLAQy2vVI2M_RC9bZlHj-DIA93o@z> 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