Re: [PATCH] winbond-840 updates, tester needed!

2000-12-25 Thread Manfred
Manfred wrote: > > I need a tester with a winbond card on a computer with a big endian cpu, > any volunteers? > Attached is a patch with further cleanups: * removed next_desc from tx descriptors - according to the documentation, it isn't needed. * limit each transmit buffer to < 1024 bytes. I

[PATCH] winbond-840 updates, tester needed!

2000-12-25 Thread Manfred
I found a few minor problems in the current winbond driver: * the current driver hangs/crashes during module unload. * it doesn't use the new pci dma mapping interface * it assumed strong memory ordering without explicit wmb()'s. * it contains the tx_full race that Andrew Morton found. The patch