Subject: Re: mc* performance patch
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Chris Tribo <ctribo@college.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/14/2005 23:18:12
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:24:12AM -0500, Tim Kelly wrote:
> > If you could do the 68k version of mc, I would be willing to follow your
> > example and extend this to the macppc version as well as the if_bm.c and
> > if_gm.c, if applicable. I am not familiar with some of the concepts of
> > bus_dma (I see a link for Jason Thorpe's presentation so I will try to
> > obtain that), so examples will help.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with bus_dma either, so I'm
> probably not the best person to learn from :) Which bus does mc attach
> to on macppc? Does it show up as a PCI device somehow, or does it
> attach to "obio" (or something else?). There are plenty of PCI NIC
> drivers that use bus_dma, but I have no idea if those would be a good
> example for an obio-attached device.

Pre Uni-North systems attach to obio and Uni-North and later attach to
PCI from what I can gather.

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