Richard Zidlicky writes:

> > >For me this means that I will wait for a fix of the OS
> > >before I care about writing a clean driver with ISR for
> > >ethernet. After the OS has been fixed: Wether the ISR will
> > >actually fill any RAM buffers or just wakes up a usermode
> > >job that reads from the hardware buffers on the network card
> > >and translates them directly into the TCP/IP stack's
> > >internal buffering scheme, remains to be seen. I tend to
> > >avoid double data copying.
> >
> > I brought this matter up with Marcel. Here is his suggestion:
> >
> > # He can request a re-schedule simply by setting the sys_rshd system
> > # variable to $FF. This will then be checked every time an SMSQ trap is
> > # invoked, which should normally happen very often. I think this should
> > # be good enough for his problem.
>
> this may help, but usually only in situations where it isn't needed
> anyway. A similar effect could be achieved on all QDOS variants by
> setting sv.pollm, although this has slide sideeffects.
>
> I looked at js rom and it appears really trivial to fix properly
> so why some workaround that doesn't help?

Could you please be more specific as to what sort of "fix" you have in mind?

Per

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