Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

"Duncan Barclay" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <003e01c36d35$94683f20$4bc8a8c0@orac>
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <[email protected]>

> > This is a little loop that waits for the card to finish DMAing a packet.
There
> > should be a DELAY(1) in there. But it may be commented out.
>
> That's bad...in general the chip should DMA the packet and then update the
> consumer index and generate an interrupt.  I don't know how this
particular
> chip works, though.  The DELAY is commented out.

Unfortunately I don't know how the chips works wither. This method comes
from the drivers I used as a reference. I have recoded the loop a little so
it doesn't DELAY and I've never had a timeout from it.

> > Do we think that cardbus is trashing the memory space somehow?
>
> That could very well be the case.  I don't know anything about cardbus,
> though.

Me neither, but my laptop needs some help in that area, so that's what I'm
going to look at next.

> Ken
> -- 
> Kenneth Merry
> [email protected]
>
>

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