bus_dma patch for fxp

Chuck Tuffli chuck_tuffli at agilent.com
Mon Jan 10 17:27:59 PST 2005


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

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Chuck Tuffli
Agilent Technologies





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