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| author | Michael Brown | 2007-07-03 15:43:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Brown | 2007-07-03 15:43:57 +0200 |
| commit | 0958726ebb55b9d09d257f0af5c9297a00bb14a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5148f392d0b34d62023c715e81d8911ee004ad56 /src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c | |
| parent | Never attempt to route the broadcast address. (diff) | |
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It's not just Etherboot that fails to generate TX completions.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c b/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c index 07106591..dc4ef98f 100644 --- a/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c +++ b/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c @@ -335,8 +335,8 @@ static int undinet_transmit ( struct net_device *netdev, /* Technically, we ought to make sure that the previous * transmission has completed before we re-use the buffer. - * However, this would break a gPXE-running-over-Etherboot - * setup, since Etherboot fails to generate TX completions. + * However, many PXE stacks (including at least some Intel PXE + * stacks and Etherboot 5.4) fail to generate TX completions. * In practice this won't be a problem, since our TX datapath * has a very low packet volume and we can get away with * assuming that a TX will be complete by the time we want to |