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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: E100 RX ring buffers continued...
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:32:35 +0200
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Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:

> There is also apparently unsupported and mostly undocumented "flexible
> mode". The question to Intel's experts: can the flexible mode be used
> anyway? I can write the code, but need info about eg. the data
> structures (RFD, how does it work in flexible mode) and a confirmation
> the silicon (or maybe which silicon) will work with it.

I can see there is some "erratum" in 82559 related to flexible RX mode.
It seems we're not affected, though - it requires more than 1 RBD (per
RFD I hope) for the problem to happen.

Do I get it right?
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Krzysztof Halasa