On Wednesday, April 09, 2003 at 1:24 AM, Matt Porter wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:33:56AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Binh Nguyen wrote: > > > > > > I heard that some one has written an ethernet driver for the IBM PPC 405 > > > board for Linux some time ago. The author has seen performance > > > improvement because the driver services interrupts in a better way. If > > > some one has a copy of the driver, would you please send it to > > > binh at us.ibm.com. Also any tips on how to install the driver is > > > appreciated. Thanks very much. > > > > The driver is included in the linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.4 > > kernel trees. You probably want to be using one of those trees in any > > case. > > He might be referring to a post here (in the last 6 months or so) > where the poster mentioned writing a replacement EMAC driver that > had better performance than the standard driver. I can't seem to > locate the post at the moment, but perhaps somebody else remembers > and can find it in the archives. >
Was it this one: "RE: Network performance loss when migrating to 2.4.18 on Walnut 4 05GP" http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-embedded/200303/msg00079.html I tried the patch mentioned (against MontaVista 2.1) and found a few % improvement, not as much as I was hoping. -- Mark Powell, Senior Software Engineer, Primagraphics Limited New Cambridge House, Litlington, nr.Royston, Herts, SG8 0SS, UK Tel. +44 1763 852222, Fax. 853324, http://www.primagraphics.co.uk ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
