3c905B, the RX and TX reset commands also reset the cyclone chip's internal
PHY, which causes it to restart its autonegotiation session. This takes a
second or two to complete, which makes the interface seem to stop responding
for a few seconds every time you do something that reinitializes it.
Issuing the RX and TX resets on the older 3c905 boomerang adapters doesn't
cause any delay because the boomerang chip requires an external PHY.
This should fix the problem where people doing network installs via 3c905B
cards experience a delay after the interface is first initialized, among
other things.
apparently possible) event that the transmit start routine is
called with and empty if_snd queue, bail out instead of dereferencing
unilitialized transmit list pointers and panicking.
Revert the transmission packet queueing strategy changes. Clearly I missed
something while debugging this, although I never encountered any problems
on my test machines.
Also make one other minor change: jack up the TX reclaim threshold for
3c90xB adapters in order to stave off 'transmission error: 82' errors.
Document the existence of the tx reclaim register (for inspecting the
current reclaim threshold) in register window 5 (if_xlreg.h).
agressive. With the old code, if a descriptor chain was already on its
way to the chip, xl_start() would try to splice new chains onto the end
of the current chain by stopping the transmitter, modifying the tail
pointer of the current chain to point to the head of the new chain, then
restart the transmitter. The manual says you're allowed to do this and
it works, but I'm not too keen on it anymore.
The new code waits until the eixsting chain has been sent and then
queues the next waiting chain in the 'transmit ok' handler.
Performance still looks good one way or the other.
This is a 100BaseFX board with SC fiber media connectors. I don't actually
have one of these but I've been told it works with the xl driver.
Submitted by: Jason Wright from the openbsd group
the OpenBSD group to fix a problem with the default ifmedia not being
set properly in some cases with a 3c905B, leading to a panic in ifmedia_set().
Also apply a patch to force the transmit start routine to check the
transmitter to make sure it isn't wedged if the outbound tx queue appears
full. This seems to cure some problems with 'watchdog timeout' errors
cropping up in some cases. I tried to do this before by checking for the
IFF_OACTIVE flag on entry to xl_start(), but if the IFF_OACTIVE flag is
set, ether_output() won't even call xl_start(). It should work now.
Lastly, increase the size of the TX queue from 10 descriptors to 16 to
hopefully make it less likely that the TX queue will fill up.
transmitter is wedged. If so, try to unwedge it, process any descriptors
that might need to be free()d, then proceed.
- Disable the 'background' autonegotiation performed during bootstrap.
What happens currently is that the driver starts an autoneg session,
the sets a timeout in the ifnet structure and returns. Later, when the
timer expires, the watchdog routine calls the autoneg handler to check
the results of the session. The problem with this is that the session
may not complete until some point after we have started to mount NFS
filesystems, which can cause the mounts to fail. This is especially
troublesome if booting with an NFS rootfs: we need the interface up
and running before reaching the mountroot() code.
The default behavior now is to do the autoneg synchronously, i.e. wait
5 seconds for the autoneg to complete before exiting the driver attach
routine. People who want the old behavior can compile the driver with
XL_BACKGROUND_AUTONEG #defined. This has no effect on autoneg sessions
initiated by 'ifconfig xl0 media autoselect.'
This slows the probe down a little, but it's either that or botching
NFS mounts at bootup.
- If xl_setmode_mii() is called and there's an autoneg session in progress,
cancel it, _then_ set the modes.
generating a trap 12 panic. The code blindly assumed that in the event
of a transmit error, the packet that caused the error would still be
at the head of the driver's transmit queue (sc->xl_cdata.xl_tx_head).
However in the case of error 82 (which indicates that a transmit error
occurred after part of the transmit FIFO memory has been reclaimed)
this is not true: the TX queue has already been flushed, and the
pointer to the head of the queue is NULL, so trying to dereference
the pointer to find the transmit descriptor address causes a crash.
The code now checks for a NULL pointer before trying to reload the
chip's download pointer register. There may still be error messages
printed warning of the transmit error, but no panic should occur.
Note that this eror code is only generated with "cyclone" chipsets
(3c900B, 3c905B, and presumeably the 3c980 server adapter). It should
only appear during periods of heavy traffic, probably only on
non-switched networks.
Problem reported by: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@ok-connect.com>
XCVR value read from the EEPROM is completely wrong. I've had one report
of a 3c900 card that returns an xcvr value of 14, which is impossible
(the manual states that all vales above 8 are reserved). If the value
is out of the expe
Add PCI vendor ID for the 3c980-TX server adapter card, which apparently
also uses the cyclone chip. Graciously supplied Mats O Jansson
<maja@cntw.com>.
Also noted by Mats, the 10mpbs cyclone adapters should be named 3c900B,
not 3c905B. I haven't actually encountered a 10mbps only cyclone adapter
yet, nor anybody who has one, but this makes sense given the naming
scheme used for the older boomerang adapters.
cluster from the RX descriptor is passed up to the higher layers and
replaced with an empty buffer for the next time the descriptor comes
up in the RX ring. The xl_newbuf() routine returns ENOBUFS if it can't
obtain a new mbuf cluster, but this return value was being ignored.
Now, if buffer allocation fails, we leave the old one in place and
drop the packet. This is rude, but there's not much else that can be
done in this situation.
Without this, the driver can cause a panic if the system runs out of
MBUF clusters. Now it will complain loudly, but it shouldn't cause a
panic.
Also added another pair of missing newlines to some printf()s.
delay controls how long the driver waits for autonegotiation to
complete after setting the 'autoneg restart bit' in a PHY. In some
cases, it seems 3 seconds is not long enough: with 3c905-TX cards
(external PHY), you sometimes see 'autoneg not complete; no carrier'
errors due to the timeout being too short. (3c905B adapters seem to
be happy with 3 seconds though.)
If I'm reading the manual correctly, the 3c905B actually loses its
PCI configuration during the transition from D3(hot) back to D0, not
during the transition from D0 to D3(hot). This means it should be possible
to save the existing PCI settings, restet the power state, then restore
the PCI settings afterwards. Changed xl_attach() to attempt this first
thing before the normal PCI setup. I'm not certain this will work correctly,
but it shouldn't hurt.
If xl_init() is called while an autoneg session is in progress, the
autoneg timeout and chip state will get clobbered. Try to avoid this
by checking sc->xl_autoneg at the start of xl_init() and defer
the initialization until later if it's set. (xl_init() is always called
at the end of an autoneg session by xl_autoneg_mii().)
Problem pointed out by: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
stability now. ALso modify /sys/conf/files, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
and /sys/i386/conf/LINT to add entries for the XL driver. Deactivate
support for the XL adapters in the vortex driver. LAstly, add a man
page.
(Also added an MLINKS entry for the ThunderLAN man page which I forgot
previously.)
