On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:46:20PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2011/06/23 11:59, Rechner-Tester wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > 
> > The vr(4) man page is missing a note about vlan support.
> > Vlan support was added as of OpenBSD 4.3:
> > 
> > Add VLAN reception support to vr(4).
> > <http://openbsd.org/plus43.html>
> 
> We don't list vlan support on the manpage for each driver.
> However there are other changes that should be mentioned.
> Rx checksum offload support was added, and the longword-alignment
> mentioned in BUGS is no longer required on the current chips,
> it seems simplest to remove BUGS completely but we could
> alternatively keep it and discuss which chips are affected.
> 
> comments/oks?

I think it looks better sticking the checksum bit a bit further
down.


Index: vr.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/src/share/man/man4/vr.4,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -p -r1.25 vr.4
--- vr.4        13 Mar 2011 21:32:29 -0000      1.25
+++ vr.4        23 Jun 2011 20:37:40 -0000
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ They support both 10 and 100Mbps speeds 
 .Pp
 The
 .Nm
+driver for the VT6105M controller supports IPv4 IP/TCP/UDP receive
+checksum offload.
+The
+.Nm
 driver additionally supports Wake on LAN (WoL).
 See
 .Xr arp 8
@@ -178,14 +182,3 @@ The
 .Nm
 driver was written by
 .An Bill Paul Aq [email protected] .
-.Sh BUGS
-The
-.Nm
-driver always copies transmit mbuf chains into longword-aligned
-buffers prior to transmission in order to pacify the Rhine chips.
-If buffers are not aligned correctly, the chip will round the
-supplied buffer address and begin DMAing from the wrong location.
-This buffer copying impairs transmit performance on slower systems but can't
-be avoided.
-On faster machines (e.g., a Pentium II), the performance
-impact is much less noticeable.

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