Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> <<On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > Ohh... and a finally note, DEC blew the chip design by only including
> > a 160byte threshold point given that PCI 2.0 spec says it should have
> > been 500bytes!!
> 
> It wouldn't be the first thing DEC had screwed up in the design of
> these NICs.  On the other hand, Intel has owned the silicon for a
> couple of years now, which is more than enough time to unscrew it if
> they really wanted to.  Clearly, they'd rather be selling 82559s....

As far as I can tell the fxp driver doesn't even use the tx_fifo in the
825xxx chips :-)


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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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