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Re: [ANNOUNCE] NAPI patches for 2.4.19-rc1

from [Jeff Garzik] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Jason Lunz <lunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NAPI patches for 2.4.19-rc1
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:37:10 -0400
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: MandrakeSoft
References: <20020710223237.GA7995@orr.falooley.org> <Pine.GSO.4.30.0207101917480.22734-100000@shell.cyberus.ca> <20020711132604.GC12354@orr.falooley.org> <3D2D8A77.8060401@mandrakesoft.com> <20020711134432.GA12722@orr.falooley.org>
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Jason Lunz wrote: 
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at  9:39AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Yes, MMIO will speed up pretty much any tulip card


Why isn't it the default? Because the clones don't handle it?


tulip still has PCI posting bugs [1], and some clones don't support MMIO at all.

        Jeff



[1] you only notice this on a few chipsets, typically non-ia32 ones



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