On 2013-04-29 20:34, Kai Bollue wrote:
> On 25.04.2013 18:16, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2013-04-24 14:41, Kai Bollue wrote:
>>> On 24.04.2013 09:49, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Yep, that's it, thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>> Does the rt_8139too driver support pre-mapping?
>>>> Nope, only the two I mentioned (simply because they are more common on
>>>> platforms that have >4G and/or an IOMMU). But - wait - the 8139too
>>>> has a
>>>> fixed DMA window (due to some older chips) and therefore does copying
>>>> to/from a pre-allocated bounce buffer on its own. That makes it work
>>>> with IOMMUs as well.
>>> OK, this means that cards using the RTL 8139 are currently the only
>>> non-Intel cards that work correctly with RTnet and > 4 GB of RAM, right?
>>> Maybe this information should be put somewhere googleable, as modern
>>> systems tend to have much RAM - and often still PCI slots.
>> True. There is an RTnet-related section on the Xenomai Wiki, and I'm
>> always open for patches against the in-tree doc of RTnet.
> 
> Maybe like this?
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index b98e6fd..35e1cee 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ What are the requirements?
>    e1000e), DEC 21x4x-based (tulip), AMD PCnet32/PCnetPCI, VIA Rhine,
> NatSemi
>    DP8381x, RTL8169 network adapter, MPC8260 FCC, MPC8xx SCC/FEC, or
> MPC5200
>    on-chip controllers, SMSC LAN91C111 embedded controller, Intel 82575
> (igb)
> +- CAUTION: On systems with > 4 GB RAM, currently only the following
> chipsets
> +  will work: RealTek 8139, Intel PRO/1000 PCI-E (e1000e, NOT e1000),
> +  Intel 82575 (igb)
>  - For Ethernet-over-FireWire see rtfirewire.berlios.de
>  - For RT-WLAN: Ralink 2500
> 

Looks ok. Can you send as full patch (subject, description, signed-off)?

Jan


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