2011/4/3 Claudio Jeker <cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com> > bce(4) was turned off because of limitations in the DMA engine that allows > the chip to access only 1G of memory. On systems with more then 1G of > memory hilarity ensued. > > Now I rewrote the driver to use bcopy() to copy the mbufs into a savely > allocated DMA memory buffer. So the chip will now work with any ammount of > memory in the machine. It works for me so if you own a bce(4) please test. > > FWIW, my loaner laptop from the job works fine with this, giving me bce0 back.
(I used to limit ram to 1G when I needed bce before, don't have to anymore. I don't care for the performance drop, its far above "0" now) -- To our sweethearts and wives. May they never meet. -- 19th century toast
