From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:51:38 -0700 From: andrew may To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Cc: Dan Malek , jpeters@mvista.com, John Tyner Subject: Re: ppc405 enet changes (moving thread from commit) Message-ID: <20010827145138.D10302@ecam.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Just moving a thread over from the commit mailing list on changes to the 405GP ethernet driver. ----- Forwarded message from andrew may ----- 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. ----- End forwarded message ----- ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/