Subject: Re: General sun4m problems (Re: Disk formatting and labelling under NetBSD/sparc?)
To: David S. Miller <davem@caip.rutgers.edu>
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/18/1996 08:01:36
> Aaron doesn't even attempt to check if the le is using a tpe or aui
> connection, nor does he ask the prom for what burst sizes the bus is
> capable of handling for dvma.  Therefore I'm surprised the le ever
> works on the sun4m unless you netboot the kernel (in which case the
> prom sets the proper bits in the dma csr, but even this isn't
> reliable).

Please submit a suitable -pr then... I would, but I will not be able to sit
down with the code for at least 2 weeks.

> Under SparcLinux we do not have these problems.

My **** is bigger than yours too... sigh. Please contribute fixes rather
than make these sorts of comments.

Regards,
-- 
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