Janne Johansson wrote: >> 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)
I can confirm this works nicely on my Acer TravelMate 4020 series laptop which has a built-in bce(4). The laptop only has half a gig of RAM so this was never an issue. Thanks for re-enabling this driver! Regards, Tom
