2006/11/10, Attilio Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
2006/11/10, Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 10:37, Massimo Lusetti wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 22:39 +0100, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, it seems that this is still that unfinished driver from
> > > Damien, that circulates on the net everywhere, but it only works for
> > > some lucky people. As for me, I get an error message when loading the
> > > module, that it could not allocate resources.
> >
> > I don't think it's "that unfinished driver from Damien" classify it
> > correctly, as stated it's an unsupported version so case where it will
> > not work are expected. Feel free to improve it or wait when some FreeBSD
> > developer will port and maintain it.
>
> I agree. On top of that, a more detailed error report would be preferable.
> From what you put above, it seems that you are out of sufficient continous
> memory at the point where you enable the hardware. Try enabling it before
> bringing up X11 etc.
Even if I'm not totally aware about what problem are gabor@ is having
at the moment, some time ago I started looking at the code and one
difference between ipi and wpi is in rings they use (and their
allocation) and again in the usage of a shared DMA memory page between
the host and the NIC.
s/ipi/iwi.
Attilio
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