Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:25:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.linux.org.uk (IDENT:93@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hAJHPV25016290 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:25:32 -0800 Received: from rdu74-153-143.nc.rr.com ([24.74.153.143]:47763 helo=pobox.com) by www.linux.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AMW52-0007CQ-CN; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:25:28 +0000 Message-ID: <3FBBA76B.4070606@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:24:59 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francois Romieu CC: Brad House , netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: r8169 and tg3 References: <47973.68.105.173.45.1069042089.squirrel@mail.mainstreetsoftworks.com> <3FB9A277.70309@pobox.com> <20031118135848.A2451@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20031118135848.A2451@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 1564 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: jgarzik@pobox.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 791 Lines: 25 Francois Romieu wrote: > Jeff Garzik : > [...] > >>So, what needs to happen is somebody needs to look at the sis190 changes >>that went in, and apply those same fixes to r8169. > > > If no one objects, I can do for r8169 the same thing I did for sis190. > Btw the DMA Rx/Tx rework is already in good shape (I rather like seeing > Jeff improving (S)ATA than coming to copy over his RX and TX handling > code :o) ). > > Anyway, the bk-commit patches which were related to sis190 are available at: > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/sis190-rework.mbx hehe. I certainly don't object... You probably want to look over the r8169 v1.6 that Brad posted a link to, since it does have some improved 8169 hardware support (modulo bugs, of course). Jeff