Re: [Qemu-devel] some updates about patches on my web site

[Chad Page]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> > * AMD PCNet - latest driver is there (version .4), so give it a try and 
> > report back to Antony Curtis (address@hidden) about bugs 
> > or suggestions..
> 
> I would like to know why it is faster than the NE2K driver so that the 
> NE2K driver can be fixed too.

        It's an intrinsic property of the programming interface - PCNet is
DMA and NE2K isn't... so the driver has to issue PIO instructions for
every (pair) of bytes and is much slower.
 
        Things're sounding good...

        - Chad