descriptor count gets miscounted on txprobes. The second (and more
important) is that transmit stalls should now be fixed. The problem
was not due to lack of ring resources but dmamaps. When Jason changed
the driver to use pre-allocated maps (instead of the dynamic ones I
used), and when there were no more maps, the driver just gave up instead
of calling tx_intr to free any transmitted but unreclaimed dma maps.
Since there was nothing being transmitted, no transmit interrupts
would fire to restore things (and OACTIVE prevented other transmits
from happenning). So it stayed starved until another interrupt cause
(like a received packet) "woke" it up.
it simple, and allocate one for each transmit and receive descriptor.
In addition to being simpler and faster, this fixes a serious memory leak
in the transmit path.
tested on any other platform other than i386. Use of bus_dma(9) can be
turned by defining TULIP_BUS_DMA_NOTX and TULIP_BUS_DMA_NORX. These allow
one to determine if the problem is in the transmit or receive path.
A problem reported by mycroft is also fixed.
pseudo-device rnd # /dev/random and in-kernel generator
in config files.
o Add declaration to all architectures.
o Clean up copyright message in rnd.c, rnd.h, and rndpool.c to include
that this code is derived in part from Ted Tyso's linux code.
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.
