** Reply to message from "David Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 3 Oct 2001
12:16:26 -0400
> Has anyone done "research" or comparisons that would gauge performance of 10/100
>Ethernet NICs and their recent drivers for RH7.1 systems? I've a suspicion that my
>LinkSYS LNE100TX isn't performing well, even with module options to force full-duplex
>and linkspeed.
I believe work on the tulip drivers continues apace. Here is the changelog from Alan
Cox's 2.4.10-ac4 kernel. Note the tulip changes:
2.4.10-ac4
o Switch to Linus behaviour for kmap
(Trond Myklebust)
in generic_file_write - should fix NFS oopses
| I dont have any highmem boxes so you get to test 8)
o ext3 deadlock versus truncate fix
(Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Small reiserfs transaction fix
(Nikita Danilov)
o Fix a fencepost error in the vm decision making (Rik
van Riel)
o Shmem accounting fix
(Christoph Rohland)
o BH async flag changes from 2.4.10
(Andrea Arcangeli)
o Remove wbinvd macro the acpi people re-added
(Dave Jones)
o Make the kiobuf init code only clean needed
(Andrew Bond)
fields (noticably speeds up Oracle)
o Move DMI scanning earlier in the kernel boot
(Stelian Pop)
| This is needed to detect the vaio early enough
o Try and fix 21041 problems with tulip, better
(Herbert Xu)
o Tulip rx dropped calculation
o Add further PCI idents
(Jeff Garzik)
o Add another ident to the clgen fb
(Jeff Garzik)
o Add intel i830 to the agp code idents
(Christof Efkemann)
o pl2303 usb serial fixes
(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o ipconfig typo fix
(Ralf Baechle)
o Fix user mode linux build with new ptrace
(Jeff Dike)
o JFFS tags update
(David Woodhouse)
o Kill of remaining old style video4linux inits
(Ladis Michl)
o Update i2c to rev 2.6.1
(Christoph Hellwig)
jb
Jack Bowling
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