Subject: Re: ATM en0 driver on sbus
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/14/1998 09:34:15
On Thu, 13 Aug 98 22:17:21 CDT
Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu> wrote:
> the problem here is that i created if_en_sbus.c before the sparc
> port had the bus_space functions available so I faked it in midwayreg.h.
> now that sparc has those macros this hack should be turned off.
>
> there is also the issue of setting up for DMA on systems with IOMMUs
> (sun4m systems). i don't think that is properly addressed in the
> driver either, but that shouldn't be a problem for the sparc2?
> hard to say since i have not looked at the sparc in a while. maybe
> pk (when he gets back from holiday) or mrg can fill in the gaps here?
If the whole "en" driver were bus_dma'd, this would be handled automatically
for you.
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