From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]: powerpc/cell spidernet bottom half Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:47:00 +0200 Message-ID: <200608170047.00811.arnd@arndb.de> References: <200608162324.47235.arnd@arndb.de> <200608170016.47072.arnd@arndb.de> <20060816.152919.88472383.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jklewis@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]:30195 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932308AbWHPWrr (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:47:47 -0400 To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <20060816.152919.88472383.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Am Thursday 17 August 2006 00:29 schrieb David Miller: > Didn't you say spidernet's facilities were sophisticated? :) > This Tigon3 stuff is like 5+ year old technology. I was rather overwhelmed by the 34 different interrupts that the chip can create, that does not mean they chose the right events for generating them. Interestingly, spidernet has five different counters you can set up to generate interrupts after a number of received frames, but none for transmit... Arnd <><