Garrett D'Amore writes:
>     1) testing -- my last SPARC system with onboard hme died a while back
>     2) testing -- I have no sbus hme ports -- a Sun Ultra 2 or some
> other system with sbus qfe or sunswift would be helpful here.

Since I think you're still on the SWAN, try lrt2:

  http://lrt2.sfbay.sun.com/index.php

I'm pretty sure we have some available test systems like that.

>     4) perf. testing -- the above changes "potentially" have performance
> impact.  I think on any supported CPU that these cards run on, the
> simplifications will greatly outweigh the savings formerly afforded by
> the "private" dvma interface this driver used to use

"Good luck."  I think that PAE has some test infrastructure for this,
but I don't know the details.  Perhaps someone on Crossbow could help.

> Now, the good news is that the entire effort here has only taken me a
> few hours.  But I figure if I can help out some of these folks with
> those older qfe cards, its probably worth it.  And the simplification in
> the code, and getting one closer to elimination of the "private" dvma
> interface is IMO a worthy goal.

Indeed.

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