Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:23:13 +0800 | From | Andrey Savochkin <> | Subject | Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4 |
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Hello,
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > > There is nothing relevant in the errata, unfortunately... > > > > Do you have it? > > I have the manual in the office, so I can look at it again in a couple of > days. I've used it to hack on the BSDI driver...
Fine!
> > The sympthomes are that the card triggers Flow Control Pause condition (and > > interrupt) on the last stages of the initialization or right after. > > And it happens with flow control being explicitly turned off. > > High network load considerably increase the chances of the event. > > After that the card stops to behave sane and reports status 0x7048. > > Cool, I'll try to go over the driver init sequence by the end of the > weekend and let you know if I see anything wrong.
May be, there is a mandatory delay missing somewhere..
> > It may happen that we don't understand something in the initialization > > sequence, or just a plain hardware bug. > > Do you know if only one specific chip revision exhibits this problem? It > would really help track down the problem. If I remember correctly, 82557 > doesn't have flow control at all, and 82558/9 have different > implementations -- one is proprietary (82558) and one is standard (82559).
I personally have seen it with 82559ER only. But there have been some reports about 82559, too.
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