From: "Mark Powell" <medp@primagraphics.co.uk>
To: "Binh Nguyen" <binh@us.ibm.com>,
<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>,
<linuxppc-users@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Driver Needed for IBM PPC 405 (Codename Walnut)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:34:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <036301c2fead$7d3aad70$3000a8c0@primag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030408172421.A22476@home.com
On Wednesday, April 09, 2003 at 1:24 AM, Matt Porter wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:33:56AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Binh Nguyen wrote:
> > >
> > > I heard that some one has written an ethernet driver for the IBM PPC
405
> > > board for Linux some time ago. The author has seen performance
> > > improvement because the driver services interrupts in a better way.
If
> > > some one has a copy of the driver, would you please send it to
> > > binh@us.ibm.com. Also any tips on how to install the driver is
> > > appreciated. Thanks very much.
> >
> > The driver is included in the linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.4
> > kernel trees. You probably want to be using one of those trees in any
> > case.
>
> He might be referring to a post here (in the last 6 months or so)
> where the poster mentioned writing a replacement EMAC driver that
> had better performance than the standard driver. I can't seem to
> locate the post at the moment, but perhaps somebody else remembers
> and can find it in the archives.
>
Was it this one:
"RE: Network performance loss when migrating to 2.4.18 on Walnut 4 05GP"
http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-embedded/200303/msg00079.html
I tried the patch mentioned (against MontaVista 2.1) and found a few %
improvement, not as much as I was hoping.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-09 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-08 20:45 Ethernet Driver Needed for IBM PPC 405 (Codename Walnut) Binh Nguyen
2003-04-08 23:33 ` David Gibson
2003-04-09 0:24 ` Matt Porter
2003-04-09 15:34 ` Mark Powell [this message]
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2003-04-09 13:10 Binh Nguyen
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