Hi Ben,

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <Pine.NEB.4.21.0007242158060.5075-100000@rangerover.kasbah> you write:
> >One of the things that might be on the list is a replacement of the RiscOS
> >bootloader. Not that it is that bad, not at all, but more that its then   
> >possible to have a uniform bootloader across all NetBSD/arm32. My idea was
> >f.e. to look if its posible to use the NetBSD/arm26 bootloader and modify 
> >it so it will load NetBSD/arm32 on the RiscPC too.
> 
> _Please_ don't do this!  BBBB is a mess, and what I'd like is for someone to
> sort things out to build RISC OS executables linked against libsa so we can 
> use the same code as the rest of the world.  That _would_ be worth sharing  
> between the ports.

Oeps... hehe... well euuhmm... Mark Brinicombe said the same thing of is
initarm() implementation for riscos ... i found your initarm() a lot more
clear ! ... thats what got me thinking about it...

> >The Seeq 800x                                                           
> >drivers for ea and eb ... i got some drivers quite a time ago from Mark 
> >Brinicombe but he still hasnt committed them ... then how are we -current
> >users expected to beta test them and help debug them ?
>  
> FWIW, I've been doing a bit of work on the ea driver for arm26.  It does at 
> least receive packets for me now, but the 8005 seems to get swamped if my   
> fxp card sends frames too fast.  Has anyone else observed this?  Anyway,
> I'll append the mbuf-alignment patch to the relevant PRs when I get a
> moment.

I compiled in the mbuf alignment patch in the arm32 if_ea.c and if_eb.c
and they compile. I'm currently doing speed tests to see if there is a
significant performance gain/lossage but i dont think so really.

just ran the test... no noticable change ... is it for your bcopy() is
only word aligned?

I get a 300 kb/sec :( for FTP and thats quite bad ... dunno why ... i'm
gonna check that out...

CYA
Reinoud



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> Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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