.. and it's not just about "saturate the port" with traffic. It's also about "what happens if I shut down the MAC whilst I'm in the process of programming in new RX/TX descriptors?"
The ath(4) driver had a spectacular behaviour where if you mess things up the wrong way it will quite happily DMA crap all over the memory of your running system, leading to quite hilarious bugs. -adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"