bus_dma patch for fxp

David Rhodus sdrhodus at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 19:01:38 PST 2005


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:27:15 -0800, Chuck Tuffli
<chuck_tuffli at xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:38:44PM -0800, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> > FreeBSD 5.x converted the fxp (Intel Pro 100 NIC) driver to use bus_dma,
> > and it turned out to be not too hard to bring it into dfly. Testing
> > consisted of running buildworld over NFS. This is the first time I've
> > worked on a NIC driver so I'd appreciate someone more experienced
> > looking this over. Especially things like the FXP_LOCKED macro. The 5.x
> > driver used this in a couple of places, but I wasn't sure it made sense
> > in our environment, so I just nuked the references.
> >
> > The patch is 81k, should I post it or send it?
> 
> If anyone is interested, the patch is here
> 
> http://www.tuffli.net/fxp-bus_dma-patch
> 
> --
> Chuck Tuffli
> Agilent Technologies
> 
Thanks for your work.  Your patch didn't apply cleanly but that's ok. 
I'm testing it out now.

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus at xxxxxxxxxxx>





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