* Re: ppc405 enet changes (moving thread from commit)
@ 2001-08-27 21:51 andrew may
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From: andrew may @ 2001-08-27 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-embedded; +Cc: Dan Malek, jpeters, John Tyner
Just moving a thread over from the commit mailing list on changes to
the 405GP ethernet driver.
----- Forwarded message from andrew may <acmay@acmay.homeip.net> -----
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:34:35PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> andrew may wrote:
>
> > The COMMAC can handle packets that are across multiple buffer descriptors.
>
> Sure, most contemporary hardware can do this.
>
> > So the ethernet hardware should be able to handle skb frags.
>
> Have you ever seen these? You certainly don't get them for transmit.
Well you have to set dev->features to get them otherwise the net core
will call skb_linearize and you will never see them. Then you have to
have something in the stack generate them, like sendfile.
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