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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:17:10 +0300
From: Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@tuleriit.ee>
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?
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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
>>
>>> I won't disagree with your experiences.  For me, outside of one brief
>>> moment when the r8169 driver didn't work on Athlon64, it has worked
>>> flawlessly for me.
>>>
>>> RealTek 8169 is currently my favorite gigabit chip.
>>
>>
>>
>> It does not seem to support DAC (or rather it breaks with DAC 
>> enabled), which makes it not very useful on any machine with >3GB of 
>> memory.
>
>
> Driver bug.  I can futz with it and get it to do 64-bit on my Athlon64.


Continuing with off-topic questions: is this "checksum off-load" usable 
with r8169? Is there any other reason (performance?) to use hardware 
TCP/IP checksumming than just "cool, a little chunk of software is 
hardwired again"?
I have seen you mentioned that this causes mainly troubles if you try to 
set it with ethtool. Is it still true?

Indrek

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