Re: PPC4xx enet driver problem (version 2.0)

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:29:31PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:

We are trying to switch to the 2.4.23 linuxppc_2_4_devel kernel (from
2.4.21) and experience a problem with the "new" ethernet driver for the
ibm ppc4xx (version 2.0 from Benjamin Herrenschmidt). On our boards with
only one active enet interface we have no problems. But our PPC405EP
boards with 2 active enet devices, the traffic stops completely upon
initializing the 2nd devices (emac_reset_configure).

Has anybody experienced similar problems? Has anybody seen this driver
working properly with more than one ppc4xx enet devices (especially
ppc405ep)?

With the previous driver (from linuxppc_2_4_devel 2.4.21 maintained by
mvista) we had no problems with 2 enet interfaces on the ppc405ep so
far!

By the way: What is the future of the ppc4xx enet driver. I found that
the 2.5 kernel  has a newer mvista driver included (modifications for
440gx, etc.). Is the driver from 2.4.23 a dead end?

2.5 tree has an _old_ driver + some modifications + some 440GX code.

linuxppc-2.4 has a new driver re-written by Ben + some 440GX code.
Eventually 2.4 version will be merged into 2.5. So it is _not_ a dead
end, although it has some problems as you noticed.

Currently, Matt Porter is hacking on 440GX support and probably he (?)
will be the one who will merge 2.4 into 2.5.

I also have something done (mostly some stuff Ben havn't finished
during re-write, and some NAPI bits) sitting in my tree (I'm pretty
busy now to finish and push it to Matt :( ).

I'll try to look at your problem during this weekend, I don't have
405ep boards with two EMACs (yet), so I'll try to reproduce the
problem on 440GP/GX eval boards.

If you have some fixes feel free to post them here :).

Thanks,

Eugene.


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