Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT), "Rodney W. Grimes" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Ohh... and a finally note, DEC blew the chip design by only including
> a 160byte threshold point given that PCI 2.0 spec says it should have
> been 500bytes!!

It wouldn't be the first thing DEC had screwed up in the design of
these NICs.  On the other hand, Intel has owned the silicon for a
couple of years now, which is more than enough time to unscrew it if
they really wanted to.  Clearly, they'd rather be selling 82559s....

-GAWollman

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