Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NAPI patches for 2.4.19-rc1

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:37:10 -0400

Jason Lunz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at  9:39AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>Yes, MMIO will speed up pretty much any tulip card
> 
> 
> Why isn't it the default? Because the clones don't handle it?

tulip still has PCI posting bugs [1], and some clones don't support MMIO 
at all.

	Jeff

[1] you only notice this on a few chipsets, typically non-ia32 ones