From: Sanjeev Jorapur <sanjeev@netxen•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl•org>
Cc: "Linsys Contractor Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@netxen•com>,
netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>, brazilnut <brazilnut@us•ibm.com>,
jeff@garzik•org, netxenproj@linsyssoft•com, rob@netxen•com,
wendyx <wendyx@us•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] NetXen: 64-bit memory fixes, driver cleanup
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:58:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163845689.4822.6.camel@nbsanjeev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061117084049.555e14d0@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:40 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:36:03 -0800
> "Linsys Contractor Amit S. Kale" <amitkale@netxen•com> wrote:
>
> > NetXen: 1G/10G Ethernet Driver updates
> > - These fixes take care of driver on machines with >4G memory
> > - Driver cleanup
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale <amitkale@netxen•com>
> >
> > netxen_nic.h | 41 ++++++----
> > netxen_nic_ethtool.c | 19 ++--
> > netxen_nic_hw.c | 10 +-
> > netxen_nic_hw.h | 4
> > netxen_nic_init.c | 51 +++++++++++-
> > netxen_nic_isr.c | 3
> > netxen_nic_main.c | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > netxen_nic_phan_reg.h | 10 +-
> > 8 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
>
>
> If you can't DMA from high memory, then don't set NETIF_F_HIGHDMA, why do
> you need explicit bounce buffers. If you can't DMA from unaligned address,
> the write a small routine to copy the skb to a new one.
The hardware supports DMA into 35 bit addresses. The intent is to
enable DMA into addresses upto 32G.
Sanjeev.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-18 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 15:36 [PATCH 3/3] NetXen: 64-bit memory fixes, driver cleanup Linsys Contractor Amit S. Kale
2006-11-17 16:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-18 10:28 ` Sanjeev Jorapur [this message]
2006-11-20 18:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-23 16:32 ` Sanjeev Jorapur
2006-11-27 18:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
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2006-11-28 16:04 Amit S. Kale
2006-11-28 18:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
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