a command to the 82586 for every frame to be transmitted. Instead, a
single command sets off the execution of a chain of commands consisting
of alternate XMITs and NO-OPs, where the link fields in the NO-OPs are
set to loop back onto themselves until the next XMIT is ready to go.
This trick found on a Linux WEB page.
All this induces reasonable transmission performance in my old multibus
adapter. The receiver performance is still abysmal..
- Change the way attach and open works to allow multiple audio
devices.
- Split the mulaw.c file into two to avoid dragging in mulaw
convertsion when they are not needed. Add 16 bit alaw/mulaw tables.
- Change the way audio properties are gotten.
- Recognize more versions os SoundBlaster.
re-enabled with ASC_IOASIC_BOUNCE.
All DMA buffered processing is now done in the bus-specific DMA routines
in asc_ioasic.c and asc_tc.c.
Disable several informational messages dealing with non-empty FIFO conditions,
but allow enabling with ASC_DIAGNOSTIC for troubleshooting.
- It is now possible to handle devices that want "looping" DMA,
e.g. the SoundBlaster correctly. The WSS and SB drivers use this.
To do this several new methods were introduced in audio_hw_if.
- Different silence handling (forced by previous change).
- The audio driver can now be mmap()-ed, but due to problems in
the VM system only for writing for now.
- The OSS (Linux) audio emulation takes advantage of some of the
new features.
* Move clockvar.h (header file for generic clock code) to sys/dev/dec.
* Move if_le_dec.c with DEC padded LANCE-dma (pmax/pmax, ioasic, vax 3400)
to sys/dev/dec. Remove from sys/dev/tc.
* Declare attribute le_dec_subr in /sys/dev/dec/files.dec,
use if_le_dec.c when it's defined.
* Move IOCTL asic declaration from pmax and Alpha MD machine
files to sys/dev/tc/files.tc.
* move TurboChannel and ioasic if_le attachments from pmax and Alpha machine
config files to /sys/dev/tc/files.tc. Add le_dec_subr attribute.
* Add if_le_dec attribute to if_le_ibus (pmax ds3100 pmax) LANCE attachment.
zero. We use this later when the COMPLETE message comes in to set the
final residual count to zero. The flag is reset if the target resumes
a data phase. This obsoletes the `AUTOSAVE' quirk (for this driver).
Also, avoid overwriting the residual count if a SENSE was appended to
the current transaction.
