Re: [Etherboot-developers] currticks function

[Markus G. <ma...@gu...>]

Ken Yap wrote:
> Hmm, I don't have a data sheet to double check this. Maybe Markus
> Gutschke, who wrote the driver, can comment.

I left all the manuals for this chip in Germany, so I can't check on what these 
flags should be set to. Recent Linux kernel sources seem to agree with you, 
though. So, this might very well be a bug in etherboot. Ken, you should probably 
change this value to 0xC0 so that it is the same as the one used by the Linux 
kernel.

I guess, the reason why we got away with the old value is that it was probably 
interpreted as starting to transmit the packet after the first 381 bytes. As 
long as we delivered the remaining bytes fast enough (or as long as transmitted 
packets were small) this would still work. Both assumptions are probably true 
for most of the data that etherboot sends.



Markus

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