OT: Realtek; Was Re: Windoze crash (was Re: Well, I was at Fry's in CA...)

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Wed Jul 9 02:22:00 2003

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.
 */
-- 
tsch??,
       Jochen
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