On 2003.07.08 17:22 Frank McConnell wrote:
> Perhaps they have forgotten the lessons of
> the 3Com 3C50[01].
The 3C50[01] was bevore my time. Please tell me the story.
BTW: I found this in the NetBSD source for the Realtek cards:
src/sys/dev/pci/if_rtk_pci.c
/*
* Default to using PIO access for this driver. On SMP systems,
* there appear to be problems with memory mapped mode: it looks like
* doing too many memory mapped access back to back in rapid succession
* can hang the bus. I'm inclined to blame this on crummy
design/construction
* on the part of RealTek. Memory mapped mode does appear to work on
* uniprocessor systems though.
*/
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tsch??,
Jochen
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Received on Wed Jul 09 2003 - 02:22:00 BST