----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Garzik" <[email protected]>
To: "Jesse Huang" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] IP100A Fix Tx pause bug
(1)
>> + iowrite8(127, ioaddr + TxDMAPollPeriod);
>> +
>
> what does the value 127 represent?
127 is polling period of Tx DMA to watch if there any packet need to send.
The 127 means 127*320ns.
(2)
> DownCounter should not be written unconditionally. Consider shared
> interrupts, where sundance performs no work, and handled==0.
DownCount is a the register that we can use for timer interrupt. When the
value of DownCount from 1 count down to 0 , IP100A will issue an interrupt.
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