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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:06:17 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: mroos@...ux.ee, cebbert@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
grundler@...isc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [patch] NET: remove support for Davicom 9102 from the Tulip driver
David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:38:06 -0400
>
>> Meelis Roos wrote:
>>> CE> We have two reports that agree the tulip driver doesn't work for
>>> CE> the Davicom 9102 (PCI id 1282:9102). The dmfe driver does work
>>> CE> and also claims the same PCI ID.
>>>
>>> NAK, dmfe does not work on some Sparc64 machines but tulip does.
>>>
>>> I happent to have a Sun Fire V100 with 2 Davicom NICs (1282:9102 (rev
>>> 31)).
>>> tulip driver works for them, dmfe doesn't. Tried with 2.6.25-rc7, first
>>> it
>>> gets MAC addresses all zeroed and second, it only results in Tx
>>> timeouts.
>> At the very least, it sounds like some SROM parsing problems on dmfe's
>> part -- assuming a standard SROM when sparc64 provides a more
>> complicated one.
>
> With the onboard Sparc64 davicoms, the SROM is essentially empty.
In this case, should dmfe be retrieving the MAC address via
addr = of_get_property(dp, "local-mac-address", &len);
as tulip is doing?
One thing that seems quite obvious is that dmfe is missing all the
CONFIG_SPARC goodies that tulip has.
Jeff
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