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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/stp.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/stp.4 | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/stp.4 b/share/man/man4/stp.4 index 0636bfbe6f7..4705eab5954 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/stp.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/stp.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: stp.4,v 1.2 2002/06/20 03:22:52 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: stp.4,v 1.3 2002/06/22 22:32:11 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: nell.4,v 1.2 2002/03/29 16:23:50 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -56,10 +56,9 @@ It uses the STP4020 chipset and it is SUN part number 501-2367. .Xr pcmcia 4 , .Xr sbus 4 .Sh BUGS -The driver provides a big-endian pcmcia bus, which is wrong in the -.Ox -context. Due to missing/incomplete documentation of the chipset it is not -known for sure if the hardware has any byteswapping mode. For sparc64 systems -this can easily be worked around in software, so this will be fixed. For -sparc systems, the fix might impose a serious performance degration and is -subject of further research. +Unlike other pcmcia adapters which are little-endian, this bridge +provides a big-endian +.Xr pcmcia 4 +bus. +Therefore, 16 bit drivers need to be made aware of this before they will +work. |