Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List)" <> | Subject | Re: VIA EPIA problem | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:43:59 +0100 (MET) |
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> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:13, H.Rosmanith (Kernel Mailing List) wrote: > > please see my posts to lkml some months (2, 3?) ago. there's a problem > > which stops the via-rhine. a small two-line patch will solve the problem. > > search in the archives for "via" and "path", because I made a typo > > and wrote "path" instead of "patch". > > Can you forward another copy to the list if you have it handy ?
okay. please note it's a workaround. but it worked at least for my board (and I have a via epia itx 500Mhz). this board seems to be the only one which had the problems with the vt6103 onboard ethernet-chip.
--- via-rhine.c.p9-debug Thu Aug 29 07:14:12 2002 +++ via-rhine.c Thu Aug 29 07:12:43 2002 @@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ - allow selecting backoff algorithm (module parameter) - cosmetic cleanups, remove 3 unused members of struct netdev_private
+ preliminary: (Herbert Rosmanith): + - for some yet unknown reason (which seems to be collision-related), + TX DMA is off in via_rhine_interrupt in the ChipCmd register. this + leads to an entry in the ringbuffer which is never processed and + therefore blocks the ringbuffer. the hack provided sets the TxRingPtr + in the chip to the entry blocking the ringbuffer, marking it for + being processed again. this error seems to happen only with the VT6103.> + */
#define DRV_NAME "via-rhine" @@ -474,6 +483,8 @@
#define MAX_MII_CNT 4 struct netdev_private { + // XXX hack hack hack + int intr_cmd; /* Descriptor rings */ /* Descriptor rings */ struct rx_desc *rx_ring; struct tx_desc *tx_ring; @@ -1294,11 +1305,13 @@ static void via_rhine_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance, struct pt_regs *rgs) { struct net_device *dev = dev_instance; + struct netdev_private *np=dev->priv; long ioaddr; u32 intr_status; int boguscnt = max_interrupt_work;
ioaddr = dev->base_addr; + np->intr_cmd=readw(ioaddr+ChipCmd); // needed later in via_rhine_tx
while ((intr_status = readw(ioaddr + IntrStatus))) { /* Acknowledge all of the current interrupt sources ASAP. */ @@ -1350,8 +1363,12 @@ if (debug > 6) printk(KERN_DEBUG " Tx scavenge %d status %8.8x.\n", entry, txstatus); - if (txstatus & DescOwn) + if (txstatus & DescOwn) { + if ((np->intr_cmd&0x0010)==0) // Gack! DMA is off + writel(np->tx_ring_dma + entry * sizeof(struct tx_desc), + dev->base_addr+TxRingPtr); break; + } if (txstatus & 0x8000) { if (debug > 1) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: Transmit error, Tx status %8.8x.\n", - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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