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12 years ago

TSE Gigabit will not generate TX pause frames

Hello, I have done everything I can see to try for over a day now but have been unable to get pause frames to be transmitted on a Gigabit link. Even with XOFF_GEN set in the command register n...
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12 years ago

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but it also generates an interrupt after a very small delay in receiving a packet so a single packet isn't stranded.

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This on the other hand, I'm pretty sure the SGDMA isn't capable to do. You could probably do it in software, having an alarm thread that regularly checks the descriptors to see if one has finished, but then it starts to be a bit complicated...