>I noted that the driver size for the rtl8139 driver was, as suspected >quite high. I looked at the source (rtl8139.c) and noticed that the >transmit buffer was being allocated for 4 buffers. I also noticed that >the Etherboot system is polling, and is a single-threaded architecture. > >I then downloaded the rtl8139A data sheet from the RealTEK site, and >found that although there are 4 available transmit descriptors, there is >no requirement that there be 4 seperate buffers for them, since if we are >in full control of transmission we can be sure that only one packet is >put in the buffer at a time. Neato, now why didn't I think of that! Thanks, Marty! People, please test this out, and if this fix works, it will go into the next release. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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