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List:       e1000-devel
Subject:    Re: [E1000-devel] 82575 transmit descriptor format
From:       Magnus Homann <magnus () homann ! se>
Date:       2008-05-20 17:25:06
Message-ID: 48330972.80300 () homann ! se
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Ronciak, John wrote:
> The legacy descriptors do exist in the the 82575 controller.  The Linux
> driver uses the exterended ones for performance reasons and there is no
> reason to use both types.  If you do use the extended descriptors, you
> also need to use the context descriptors for any of the offloads like
> checksum or TSO. 

Great, thanks! We do not need any off-loading at all, so I'll just stick 
with the legacy descriptors.

Thanks,
Magnus

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