Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2015-03-20

Re: [PATCH v2] net: ethernet: pcnet32: Setup the SRAM and NOUFLO on Am79C97{3,5}

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-03-20 17:19:46
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From: Markos Chandras <redacted>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:28:14 +0000
On a MIPS Malta board, tons of fifo underflow errors have been observed
when using u-boot as bootloader instead of YAMON. The reason for that
is that YAMON used to set the pcnet device to SRAM mode but u-boot does
not. As a result, the default Tx threshold (64 bytes) is now too small to
keep the fifo relatively used and it can result to Tx fifo underflow errors.
As a result of which, it's best to setup the SRAM on supported controllers
so we can always use the NOUFLO bit.

Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
Cc: Don Fry <pcnet32@frontier.com>
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <redacted>
Applied.
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