Re: 712/80 console errors

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Jochen Kunz:
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> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:37:56 +0200
> Alf Schlichting <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > From looking at  /usr/src/sys/dev/isa/if_ie.c, this does not look too
> > dangerous. If this safely can be ingnored, i will comment them out.
> > Comments?
> The ie(4) driver originates from the old 4.4BSD days. It drives the
> i82596 found in hp700 machines in i82586 compatibility mode. The i82586
> is a quite painfull chip, unable to do 32 bit or scatter gather DMA and
> has other limitations. Race conditions are quite common in the ie(4)
> driver due to the hardware, so you can ignore those errors. 
> 
> I wrote a new i82596 driver from scratch for NetBSD. This iee(4) driver
> features 32 bit scatter gather DMA, vlan(4) support etc. and runs better
> on non-LC PA7100 machines. I think I'll port it to OpenBSD. But first I
> have to anon-cvs the OpenBSD source and all I have at home is modem dial
> up...

don't bother. it's not needed.

cu

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