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authortrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-06 18:58:02 +0000
committertrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-06 18:58:02 +0000
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Restore most (90%) of the text I removed in my previous commit. Remove the
part about spelling and grammar. Discussed with: -developers
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@@ -191,6 +191,12 @@ longword aligned by definition.
The driver probably should not be
depending on this characteristic.
.Pp
+The RealTek data sheets are of especially poor quality,
+and there is a lot of information missing
+particularly concerning the receiver operation.
+One particularly
+important fact that the data sheets fail to mention relates to the
+way in which the chip fills in the receive buffer.
When an interrupt
is posted to signal that a frame has been received, it is possible that
another frame might be in the process of being copied into the receive
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