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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040124224635.GA3448@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4012F2B7.3080800@gmx.net>

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> >>>Do you have specs that show that all nForce versions support unaligned 
> >>>buffers? skb_reserve is a performance feature, I don't want to add it 
> >>>yet. Testing that it works is on our TODO list.
> >>
> >>hmmmm, is nForce ever found on non-x86 boxes?  I would think that 
> >>skb_reserve might be -required- for some platforms.
> > 
> > 
> > AMD64 and PPC64 as far as I know. But you may consider the first one
> > still a x86 box.
> 
> Hmmm. I thought only GeForce graphics were available on PPC64 and nForce
> mainboard chipsets (including the onboard nic) were not.
 
Well, my memory may be tricking me (I'm not really sure about this), but
I remember there was supposed to be a PPC64 northbridge with a HT link,
made exactly for the purpose of connecting an nForce southrbridge to it.
But it definitely is not in production yet.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-24 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4012BF44.9@colorfullife.com>
2004-01-24 20:21 ` [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 21:55   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 23:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 22:05   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-24 22:33     ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 22:46       ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-01-24 23:11         ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-27 13:30   ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2004-02-05  0:52 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-02-05  9:45 ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-24 17:11 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-24 17:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 21:24   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-01-25  0:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-24 18:59 ` Francois Romieu
2004-01-24 19:02   ` Manfred Spraul

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