and mask ops since smc83c170 chips access them in 32bit width with proper
byteswap mechanism, so that all #if BYTE_ORDER in descriptors can be removed.
While here, do some slight optimizations in epic_start() and epic_intr().
timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
and consider it to be like an RCC (receive copy complete). The RCC
code path has always checked for bad received packets.
- Trim the CRC length off the recived packet length; the EPIC/100 always
includes the CRC in the packet.
- Improve fatal error reporting.
* Don't allocate receive buffers until the interface is actually brought
up, and release all of them if the interface is taken down.
* Add a knob (defaults to off) which will copy an incoming packet to
a single header mbuf if it is small enough to fit in one, rather than
burning an entire cluster on it. Note that this change will be mostly
moot if/when sbcompress() it changed to handle compressing clusters.
between a bug in the receive path (buffer length used instead of actual
received frame length) and the ARP code not correctly setting the length
of the reused mbuf, which all told caused the transmit logic in the chip
to wedge.
Also, make sure to count received packets.
Found and fixed by Zdenek Salvet <salvet@ics.muni.cz>, PR #7809.
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.
* 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.)
thorpej