Subject: Re: 19991204 snapshot.
To: Matthew Reilly <mjreilly@flashcom.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/10/1999 14:28:36
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Matthew Reilly wrote:

> Thanks guys. I added the option and the kernel compiled and booted,
> seemed to recognize the cards:
> 
> 
> tlp0 is the one connected to the hub at the moment. When I tried to
> bring it up the machine drowned under a storm of 'error: buffer ring
> overrun', every once in a while it would throw up something else but it
> sped by too fast to read. I guess this is why the tlp driver isn't ready
> for prime time.

On a big-endian machine. :-)

If you want, contact Jason Thorpe (thorpej@netbsd.org) and see what needs
doing to make it work. It's mainly to make sure that the DMA tables fed to
the chip are in little-endian byte order.

Take care,

Bill