Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:22:12AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Actually it didn't. Linux upstream and Intel are not Debian, and they
> > don't really care about your issues here. The firmware was added
> > because hardware checksum offloading was on the checklist for the
> > original driver author, and it has been removed now because it doesn't
> > provide any benefit with modern host cpus but complicates the code a
> > lot.
>
> This is hardly relevant to the topic, but do you have proof of this?
> It looked beneficial in some circumstances to me in some profiling
> I did recently.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=e100+checksum+offloading&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=ZtY5-2av-7%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2
an additional update from Jeff is "avoidance of e100 hardware checksumming
features is, unfortunately, the only way to guarantee data integrity on all
e100 hardware"
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