----- Original Message -----
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:29:02 -0700
>From: "Garrett D'Amore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Joost Mulders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [driver-discuss] [networking-discuss] Yet another VIA Rhine
> ethernet driver
>
>
>Joost,
>
>A couple of comments:
>
>1) Great job! This driver looks really clean, and well written. I'm
>fairly impressed.
me too!
>2) The "vfe" driver is being worked for inclusion into Nevada someday
>soon. Its too bad this duplication of effort exists, because, your
>driver looks quite nice.
>
>3) FYI, the ndd ioctls which you've figured out are going to be defunct
>really soon, thanks to PSARC 2007/429, aka Brussels.
>
>4) I wonder if the common interrupt blanking feature of Nemo/GLDv3 is a
>better solution to using a separate task to handle your polling.
>Crossbow should fix that, in any case.
> -- Garrett
>
>Joost Mulders wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am happy to announce the availability of yet another driver ("vr")
>> for a few
>> of the VIA Rhine fast Ethernet controllers:
>>
>> VIA Rhine VT6102 Fast Ethernet, pci1106,3065
>> VIA Rhine VT6105 Fast Ethernet, pci1106,3106
>>
>> A package with both sparc and intel binaries is at
>> http://joostm.nl/solaris/vr/VR_1_09/via-rhine-ethernet.pkg
>> Source is at
>> http://joostm.nl/solaris/vr/VR_1_09/
>>
>> The reason for existance of this driver is a bit of a story:
>> A long time ago, I bought an VIA EPIA board for use as a low-power
>> home server.
>> At that time, rh didn't work too well for me, so I installed BSD and
>> decided
>> (being naive) to write a new driver as an educational excersise.
>> I took a luxury amount of time for that ....
>> Meanwhile rh (now vfe) works very well. I completed vr just for the
>> sake of
>> completion.
>>
>> vr is a GLD3 driver created with an eye on CPU utilization, because
>> my EPIA
>> doesn't have too much of that :-)
A random question:
Would you tell me on the CPU utilization in 100M bps transfer
with or without the cyclic task?
I guess the CPU usage is about 50% on your EPIA without the cyclic task.
Masayuki Murayama
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