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As far as I know GSO should not depend on the ethernet driver. The basic idea is that protocol layers don't handle segments (and memory buffers) separately (it's just SW side improvement). When 10K segments needs to be handled per second (due to 1500 bytes MTU) even that matters a lot (if it can be reduced a bit). I don't know if Broadcom managed to break that.
The most important question related to the ethernet driver if it has so poor support for various offload features because of the old kernel version or because of the HW's inability. Too bad that there is no documentation for this...
It's a bit weird that Broadcom produced a driver for a kernel version that pre-dates the announcement of the chip-set by one year and has not released anything new since that. Is it really so?
Sorry, I have to read documentation much deeper to agree or disagree with you.
Unfortunately, Broadcom tries to support single SDK for both 2.4.20 & 2.6.22 kernel versions. Due to very limited features of both obsolete kernels and since Broadcom don't want (as I can understand) to migrate to newer kernels , they simply don't implement future features.It's a bit weird that Broadcom produced a driver for a kernel version that pre-dates the announcement of the chip-set by one year and has not released anything new since that. Is it really so?
P.S. I suspect, that due to "crisis" in top managers brains, SDK development was moved to cheaper place with cheaper programmers. As result, quality of code ...
It seems that /net/core/dev.c has code for this in dev_hard_start_xmit()/dev_queue_xmit(). Having driver support would/could though probably save some copying.
I wonder if it can be cheaper than Linux community maintaining the drivers' code for free. Of course it would need a bit broader opening towards Linux than just releasing the code/doc. of a few selected drivers.
that is probably the best investment a company can ever do...
the only problem is: other people will get to know how a specific technology works, and protecting those technologies... well, they've probably spend a lot of money on that already
In the end, it's pretty much the same as the movie "the italian job", the mini's (the car) where not sponsored by BMC (the manufacturer), since they didn't understand what a great marketing it would be.
nowadays a lot of cars get sponsored by the companies that produce them, like in the movie "I robot" with the audi.
I hope a similar shift will happen in computer land soon, and that other companies will open up their code a bit.
it's inevitable that linux will grow bigger
Hey everyone.
I'm linux noobie and need some help.
Is it possible to mount a NTFS partition with write support? If it's possible, how? System log tells me that NTFS partition is mounted read-only.
My harddisk has 4 different partitions: optware (ext3), swap, data (ext3) and data (ntfs).
The second question is that how can I enable swap? or is it even needed (will the router benefit from it)?
If anyone is kind enough to help me, I really need clear instructions what to do.