Subject: Re: NuBus status on Q840av?
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/31/1997 22:16:49
Dave Huang wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > There seem to be two people working on Motherboard Ethernet support (the
> > MACE chip) but it's not here yet.  DMA is not supported, but AB is waiting
> > for Apple to consent to let an old A/UX driver writer tell him how it
> > works.  MRZ says that X should work in B&W mode currently.
> 
> Actually, my driver does support DMA... and it seems that it's not having
> trouble with large packets per se, but it's not happy receiving many
> packets in quick succession. It looks like my DMA completion interrupt
> handler is being called re-entrantly. I thought interrupts were supposed
> to be masked during an interrupt? 
> 

Don't you need to raise the interrupt level in your interrupt handler
first?  Or am I just way....off base here?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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