* Macroize hardware and software descriptor access (much easier to read).
* Simplify and optimize the transmit loop a bit, and use IFF_OACTIVE as
appropriate.
* Fix a potential race condition in the transmit loop. This change has
made the driver significantly more stable (almost completely eliminated
the "device timeout" errors that have plagued this driver).
* Implement transmit interrupt pacing.
* Add missing bus_dmamap_sync() calls (on transmit and receive descriptors
and fraglists). (Draining the write buffer when accessing these structures
may have also contributed to the increased stability of this driver on
the Alpha.)
clock source. Now, when my EtherPower II locks up, it eventually recovers!
(Geez, I'd like to know why it does this, and only apparently in 10mb/s mode).
used in the SMC EtherPower II.
Media control isn't yet supported, due to some MII infrastructure
problems which I hope to address soon. This isn't a huge deal, since
the PHY defaults to auto-negotiate mode.
Also, the device just programs the multicast hash table to accept all
multicast, to avoid a hardware bug that causes the multicast address
filter to lose in 10Mb/s mode. This bug will be fixed in a more sane
way once the media control issues are dealt with.
