rl(4) is not ready for mpsafenet net enough? (silent reboots)

[Andrey Chernov]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:18:44AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> *DRIVER* concept, not a hardware one in this context).  The problem
> with REV C and earlier is that their performance sucks because the DMA
> engine used in the cards was LAME.  Realtec fixed this in newer
> revisions of the chip, and the re driver is able to take advantage of
> that (as well as support the newer gige chips).

The problem is that it is on-board embedded chip I try to use. Looks like 
I need to buy some external card like "Intel PRO/100+ PCI" and turn this 
one off...

The question remains: why rl(4) driver pretend to be mpsafenet itself? 
Other drivers with problems, like de(4), are GIANT-locked by default.

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