Re: [PATCH 0/4] atl1: Revised Attansic L1 ethernet driver

From: Luca Tettamanti
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 15:25:56 EST


(I'm CC-ing the other developer)

Il Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:44:43AM +0000, Vasco Visser ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I've tested the new driver for a couple of days, mostly by running
> XDMCP session over the Gbit LAN. Its all working good.
>
> I didn't experience any crashes or slowdowns at all. The driver is
> definitly usefull in it current state.

Good to hear.
Jay, I gave him driver version 2.0.3.

>
> Performance is good, tops at ~40MB/s.
>
> BTW: what is this MSI patch?

It enables PCI MSI, i.e. a method for delivering interrupts as regular
PCI transactions.
It's disabled by default since it may cause troubles on non-Intel
chipsets.

Luca
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not what you want.
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