Blue Swirl wrote:
It could be worthwhile to check if lance (Am7990) and pcnet (Am79C970A)
drivers could be merged. This was discussed briefly some years ago:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-10/msg00364.html
Yes, a quick look shows 79c970a has one rx/tx buffer management mode
It could be worthwhile to check if lance (Am7990) and pcnet (Am79C970A)
drivers could be merged. This was discussed briefly some years ago:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-10/msg00364.html
Yes, a quick look shows 79c970a has one rx/tx buffer management mode which
is software-c
>Looking at 7990 chip docs (main chip on lance card) it seems like there are>more features
>not implemented; e.g. 1.6ms timer is needed to implement "normal">transmission.It could be worthwhile to check if lance (Am7990) and pcnet (Am79C970A)drivers could be merged. This was discussed briefly some
Without this patch I had ~500 byte/second transfers with qemu-system-sparc,
now it network speed is much better :)
Good work!
Looking at 7990 chip docs (main chip on lance card) it seems like there are
more features
not implemented; e.g. 1.6ms timer is needed to implement "normal"
transmission
