[parisc-linux] C3000 and 2.6 - need config help

[M. Grabert]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Grant Grundler wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:16:08PM +0000, M. Grabert wrote:
> > The max. transfer rate of any 100BT network is around 5MByte/s.
>
> 100BT is capable of 90-95Mb/s ~= 11MB/s.

That's theoretical, not really practically possible/feasible :-/

> There's a website someplace that has 100BT performance numbers
> for all sorts of card/OS combinations.
>
> I've measured ftp transfers > 10MB/s between ia64 and ia32 machines
> over 100BT link.

ftp? uncompressed? Well I'm impressed ...
The fastest 100MBit link I ever had was 7MBytes/s.

> I'll take another look at why DMA isn't working.
> It looks like NS87415 driver has the support in place.
> The key bit seems to be init_hwif_ns87415().

Thanks alot,

 Max