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-rw-r--r--src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c b/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c
index 6bc0fc363..071065914 100644
--- a/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c
+++ b/src/arch/i386/drivers/net/undinet.c
@@ -333,6 +333,16 @@ static int undinet_transmit ( struct net_device *netdev,
size_t len = iob_len ( iobuf );
int rc;
+ /* 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.
+ * 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
+ * transmit the next packet.
+ */
+
/* Copy packet to UNDI I/O buffer */
if ( len > sizeof ( basemem_packet ) )
len = sizeof ( basemem_packet );