packets. It's not clear whether latency will be affected much. It could be.
However, for the time being, getting full rates out of HIPPI or SCSI are what
interests us at NASA, so we'll hew to this bias.
the PCIA revision, and whether or not the STD I/O EISA bridge is
present. Decode, but don't bother displaying, the power consumption
information for each PCI slot.
arguments, so that a device can tell if its memory and I/O spaces are
enabled. The flags are cleared, depending on the contents of devices CSR
registers, in the machine-independent PCI bus code.
This can be disabled (to save a bit of space) with the NO_KERNEL_RCSIDS
options, which is present but commented out in the ALPHA config file.
In ELF-format kernels, these strings are present in the kernel binary but
are not loaded into memory. (In ECOFF-format kernels, there's no easy way
to keep them from being loaded, so they _are_ loaded into memory.)