Subject: Re: mc* performance patch
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
From: Tim Kelly <hockey@dialectronics.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/14/2005 22:19:06
At 9:48 PM -0500 1/14/05, Allen Briggs wrote:
>I've gone ahead and committed the change to MC_RXDMABUFS with the
>note that the driver really needs an introduction to bus_dma(9).
>If we can get the platform independent parts of the driver into
>src/sys/dev/ic, that would be great!  I think that needs some
>thought with dbdma involved...

I'd be interested in undertaking this, in order to improve my knowledge of
dbdma as well as driver code, and I feel comfortable with networking stuff
(lots of protocol experience in MacOS). I've got both bm and mc here that I
can test. I've been thinking about getting a Beige G3, if I can find a real
cheap one. That'd give me gm as well, IIRC, plus it's got some components
that I can't test against otherwise.

What about mii for if_bm and if_mc? Is this appropriate?

tim