need an interupt when the hardware hits tx chain end. We switch on one
int per packet sent when we fill up and go into OACTIVE mode.
Measured total interupt savings on large NFS writes: 20%.
a) use stream methods when transferring data via the MEMPORT into/out of
the chips buffer memory
b) use htole16/le16toh when interpreting 16bit values in the chips memory
Both where NOPs on i386 machines, which is why this worked before on the
test machine(s), but would break when on a big-endian machine.
it, before starting the command to install the multicast list.
(We did it right for writing data packets, but failed here.)
Without this, the last multicast address installed won't be made active.
directly, call the function pointer (*if_input)(ifp, m). The input routine
expects the packet header to be at the head of the packet, and will adjust
as necessary. Privatize the layer 2 input and output routines, allowing
*_ifattach() to set them up as appropriate.
the historical link? flags for media select)
XXX No pullup request for this. But if sysinst supports explicit media
XXX selection in 1.3, this should be in 1.3 as well.
Instead, print a diagnostic and return. (Some drivers do this already.)
Also, normalize the diagnostic message, and fix some places where the
printfs were getting ugly.
Some of the stuff (e.g., rarpd, bootpd, dhcpd etc., libsa) still will
only support Ethernet. Tcpdump itself should be ok, but libpcap needs
lot of work.
For the detailed change history, look at the commit log entries for
the is-newarp branch.
- No more distinction between i/o-mapped and memory-mapped
devices. It's all "bus space" now, and space tags
differentiate the space with finer grain than the
bus chipset tag.
- Add memory barrier methods.
- Implement space alloc/free methods.
- Implement region read/write methods (like memcpy to/from
bus space).
This interface provides a better abstraction for dealing with
machine-independent chipset drivers.
thorpej