Re: misc/37578: bce(4) man page change

[Cliff Wright <cliff%snipe444.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/37578; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Cliff Wright <cliff%snipe444.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/37578: bce(4) man page change
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:42:24 -0800

 On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:35:03 +0000 (UTC)
 "Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  Pending testing on a typical PCI-attached BCM440x core, I propose adding
 >  ETHERCAP_VLAN_MTU in the driver, and removing the note in the man page.
 
 I think this should work. BCE_RX_MAX/BCE_TX_MAX is the max
 packet length registers, which are set to 32 bytes over 1518
 which accounts for a broadcom 28 byte header(rx_pph), leaving 4 bytes for vlan 
tag. 
 
 
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 Cliff Wright <cliff%snipe444.org@localhost>