to clear RL_TDESC_VLANCTL_TAG). This fixes sending packets in the
native VLAN when running both tagged and an untagged VLAN over the
same trunk and descriptors are recycled.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
MFC after: 1 week
Ever since switching to adaptive polling re(4) occasionally spews
watchdog timeouts on systems with MSI capability. This change is
minimal one for supporting MSI and re(4) also needs MSIX support
for RTL8111C in future. Because softc structure of re(4) is shared
with rl(4), rl(4) was touched to use the modified softc.
Reported by: cnst
Tested by: cnst
Approved by: re (kensmith)
would be 93C46(1Kbit) or 93C56(2Kbit). One of differences between them
is number of address lines required to access the EEPROM. For example,
93C56 EEPROM needs 8 address lines to read/write data. If 93C56
recevied premature end of required number of serial clock(CLK) to set
OP code/address of EEPROM, the result would be unexpected behavior.
Previously it tried to detect 93C46, which requires 6 address lines,
and then assumed it would be 93C56 if read data was not expected
value. However, this approach didn't work in some models/situations
as 93C56 requries 8 address lines to access its data. In order to fix
it, change EEPROM probing order such that 93C56 is detected reliably.
While I'm here change hard-coded address line numbers with defined
constant to enhance readability.
PR: 112710
Approved by: re (mux)
Without bus_dma clean up and increment of number of Tx descriptors
it's hard to guarantee correct Tx operation in TSO case. The TSO
support would be enabled again when I get more feeback from re(4)
patch posted to current.
Previously whenever PROMISC mode turned on/off link renegotiation
occurs and it could resulted in network unavailability for serveral
seconds.(Depending on switch STP settings it could last several tens
seconds.)
Reported by: Prokofiev S.P. < proks AT logos DOT uptel DOT net >
Tested by: Prokofiev S.P. < proks AT logos DOT uptel DOT net >
If these drivers are setting M_VLANTAG because they are stripping the
layer 2 802.1Q headers, then they need to be re-inserting them so any
bpf(4) peers can properly decode them.
It should be noted that this is compiled tested only.
MFC after: 3 weeks
apparently be confused by short TCP segments that have been manually
padded to the minimum ethernet frame size. The driver does short frame
padding in software as a workaround for a bug in the 8169 PCI devices
that causes short IP fragments to be corrupted due to an apparent
conflict between the hardware autopadding and hardware IP checksumming.
To fix this, we avoid software padding for short TCP segments, since
the hardware seems to autopad and checksum these correctly (even the
older 8169 NICs get these right). Short UDP packets appear to be
handled correctly in all cases. This should work around the IP header
checksum bug in the 8169 while not tripping the TCP checksum bug in
the 8111B/8168B and 8101E.
addresses shall access invalid descriptor DMA addresses on PCIe
hardwares and then panicked the system.
To fix it set descriptor DMA addresses before enabling Tx and Rx
such that hardware can see valid descriptor DMA addresses. Also
set RL_EARLY_TX_THRESH before starting Tx and Rx.
Reported by: steve.tell AT crashmail DOT de
Tested by: steve.tell AT crashmail DOT de
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 1 week
operation as it ran out of free descriptors or if there are too many
segments in the first place, call bus_dmamap_unload() in order to
unload the already loaded segments.
For trying to map the defragmented mbuf (chain) in re_encap() this
introduces re_dma_map_desc() setting arg.rl_maxsegs to 0 as a new
failure mode. Previously we just ignored this case, corrupting our
view of the TX ring.
o In re_txeof():
- Don't clear IFF_DRV_OACTIVE unless there are at least 4 free TX
descriptors. Further down the road re_encap() will bail if there
aren't at least 4 free TX descriptors, causing re_start() to
abort and prepend the dequeued mbuf again so it makes no sense
to pretend we could process mbufs again when in fact we won't.
While at it replace this magic 4 with a macro RL_TX_DESC_THLD
throughout this driver.
- Don't cancel the watchdog timeout as soon as there's at least one
free TX descriptor but instead only if all descriptors have been
handled. It's perfectly normal, especially in the DEVICE_POLLING
case, that re_txeof() is called when only a part of the enqueued
TX descriptors have been handled, causing the watchdog to be
disarmed prematurely.
o In re_encap():
- If m_defrag() fails just drop the packet like other NIC drivers
do. This should only happen when there's a mbuf shortage, in which
case it was possible to end up with an IFQ full of packets which
couldn't be processed as they couldn't be defragmented as they
were taking up all the mbufs themselves. This includes adjusting
re_start() to not trying to prepend the mbuf (chain) if re_encap()
has freed it.
- Remove dupe initialization of members of struct rl_dmaload_arg to
values that didn't change since trying to process the fragmented
mbuf chain.
While at it remove an unused member from struct rl_dmaload_arg.
o In re_start() remove a abandoned, banal comment. The corresponding
code was moved to re_attach() some time ago.
With these changes re(4) now survives one day (until stopped) of
hammering out packets here.
Reviewed by: yongari
MFC after: 2 weeks
re_watchdog() in order to avoid races accessing if_timer.
- Use bus_get_dma_tag() so re(4) works on platforms requiring it.
- Remove invalid BUS_DMA_ALLOCNOW when creating the parent DMA tag
and the tags that are used for static memory allocations.
- Don't bother to set if_mtu to ETHERMTU, ether_ifattach() does that.
- Remove an unused variable in re_intr().
m_pkthdr.ether_vlan. The presence of the M_VLANTAG flag on the mbuf
signifies the presence and validity of its content.
Drivers that support hardware VLAN tag stripping fill in the received
VLAN tag (containing both vlan and priority information) into the
ether_vtag mbuf packet header field:
m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag = vlan_id; /* ntohs()? */
m->m_flags |= M_VLANTAG;
to mark the packet m with the specified VLAN tag.
On output the driver should check the mbuf for the M_VLANTAG flag to
see if a VLAN tag is present and valid:
if (m->m_flags & M_VLANTAG) {
... = m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag; /* htons()? */
... pass tag to hardware ...
}
VLAN tags are stored in host byte order. Byte swapping may be necessary.
(Note: This driver conversion was mechanic and did not add or remove any
byte swapping in the drivers.)
Remove zone_mtag_vlan UMA zone and MTAG_VLAN definition. No more tag
memory allocation have to be done.
Reviewed by: thompsa, yar
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
if_watchdog, etc., or in functions used only in these methods.
In all other functions in the driver use device_printf().
- Use __func__ instead of typing function name.
Submitted by: Alex Lyashkov <umka sevcity.net>
Ever since rev 1.68 re(4) checks the validity of link in re_start.
But rlphy(4) got a garbled data due to a different bit layout used on
8139C+ and it couldn't report correct link state. To fix it, ignore
BMCR_LOOP and BMCR_ISO bits which have different meanings on 8139C+.
I think this also make dhclient(8) work on 8139C+.
Reported by: Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit AT pmp DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Tested by: Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit AT pmp DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
- Change the workaround for the autopad/checksum offload bug so that
instead of lying about the map size, we actually create a properly
padded mbuf and map it as usual. The other trick works, but is ugly.
This approach also gives us a chance to zero the pad space to avoid
possibly leaking data.
- With the PCIe devices, it looks issuing a TX command while there's
already a transmission in progress doesn't have any effect. In other
words, if you send two packets in rapid succession, the second one may
end up sitting in the TX DMA ring until another transmit command is
issued later in the future. Basically, if re_txeof() sees that there
are still descriptors outstanding, it needs to manually resume the
TX DMA channel by issuing another TX command to make sure all
transmissions are flushed out. (The PCI devices seem to keep the
TX channel moving until all descriptors have been consumed. I'm not
sure why the PCIe devices behave differently.)
(You can see this issue if you do the following test: plug an re(4)
interface into another host via crossover cable, and from the other
host do 'ping -c 2 <host with re(4) NIC>' to prime the ARP cache,
then do 'ping -c 1 -s 1473 <host with re(4) NIC>'. You're supposed
to see two packets sent in response, but you may only see one. If
you do 'ping -c 1 -s 1473 <host with re(4) NIC>' again, you'll
see two packets, but one will be the missing fragment from the last
ping, followed by one of the fragments from this ping.)
- Add the PCI ID for the US Robotics 997902 NIC, which is based on
the RTL8169S.
- Add a tsleep() of 1 second in re_detach() after the interrupt handler
is disconnected. This should allow any tasks queued up by the ISR
to drain. Now, I know you're supposed to use taskqueue_drain() for
this, but something about the way taskqueue_drain() works with
taskqueue_fast queues doesn't seem quite right, and I refuse to be
tricked into fixing it.
- Correct the PCI ID for the 8169SC/8110SC in the device list (I added
the macro for it to if_rlreg.h before, but forgot to use it.)
- Remove the extra interrupt spinlock I added previously. After giving it
some more thought, it's not really needed.
- Work around a hardware bug in some versions of the 8169. When sending
very small IP datagrams with checksum offload enabled, a conflict can
occur between the TX autopadding feature and the hardware checksumming
that can corrupt the outbound packet. This is the reason that checksum
offload sometimes breaks NFS: if you're using NFS over UDP, and you're
very unlucky, you might find yourself doing a fragmented NFS write where
the last fragment is smaller than the minimum ethernet frame size (60
bytes). (It's rare, but if you keep NFS running long enough it'll
happen.) If checksum offload is enabled, the chip will have to both
autopad the fragment and calculate its checksum header. This confuses
some revs of the 8169, causing the packet that appears on the wire
to be corrupted. (The IP addresses and the checksum field are mangled.)
This will cause the NFS write to fail. Unfortunately, when NFS retries,
it sends the same write request over and over again, and it keeps
failing, so NFS stays wedged.
(A simple way to provoke the failure is to connect the failing system
to a network with a known good machine and do "ping -s 1473 <badhost>"
from the good system. The ping will fail.)
Someone had previously worked around this using the heavy-handed
approahch of just disabling checksum offload. The correct fix is to
manually pad short frames where the TCP/IP stack has requested
checksum offloading. This allows us to have checksum offload turned
on by default but still let NFS work right.
- Not a bug, but change the ID strings for devices with hardware rev
0x30000000 and 0x38000000 to both be 8168B/8111B. According to RealTek,
they're both the same device, but 0x30000000 is an earlier silicon spin.
cards: the chips are all marked "RTL8111B", but they put stickers on the
back that say "RTL8168B/8111B". The manual says there's only one HWREV code
for both the 8111B and 8168B devices, which is 0x30000000, but the cards
they sent me actually report HWREV of 0x38000000. Deciding to trust the
hardware in front of me rather than a possibly incorrect manual (it wouldn't
be the first time the HWREVs were incorrectly documented), I changed the
8168 revision code. It turns out this was a mistake though: 0x30000000
really is a valid for the 8168.
There are two possible reasons for there to be two different HWREVs:
1) 0x30000000 is used only for the 8168B and 0x38000000 is only for
the 8111B.
2) There were 8111/8168 rev A devices which both used code 0x30000000,
and the 8111B/8168B both use 0x38000000.
The product list on the RealTek website doesn't mention the existence of
any 8168/8111 rev A chips being in production though, and I've never seen
one, so until I get clarification from RealTek, I'm going to assume that
0x30000000 is just for the 8168B and 0x38000000 is for the 8111B only.
So, the HWREV code for the 8168 has been put back to 0x30000000,
a new 8111 HWREV code has been added, and there are now separate
entries for recognizing both devices in the device list. This will
allow all devices to work, though if it turns out I'm wrong I may
need to change the ID strings
latter is a PCIe 10/100 chip.
Finally fix the EEPROM reading code so that we can access the EEPROMs on all
devices. In order to access the EEPROM, we must select 'EEPROM programming'
mode, and then set the EEPROM chip select bit. Previously, we were setting
both bits simultaneously, which doesn't work: they must be set in the
right sequence.
Always obtain the station address from the EEPROM, now that EEPROM
reading works correctly.
Make the TX interrupt moderation code based on the internal timer
optional and turned off by default.
Make the re_diag() routine conditional and off by default. When it is
on, only use it for the original 8169, which was the only device that
that really needed it.
Modify interrupt handling to use a fast interrupt handler and fast
taskqeueue.
Correct the rgephy driver so that it only applies the DSP fixup for
PHY revs 0 and 1. Later chips are fixed and don't need the fixup.
Make the rgephy driver advertise both 1000_FD and 1000_HD bits in
autoneg mode. A couple of the devices don't autoneg correctly unless
configured this way.
case if memory allocation failed.
- Remove fourth argument from VLAN_INPUT_TAG(), that was used
incorrectly in almost all drivers. Indicate failure with
mbuf value of NULL.
In collaboration with: yongari, ru, sam
rather than in ifindex_table[]; all (except one) accesses are
through ifp anyway. IF_LLADDR() works faster, and all (except
one) ifaddr_byindex() users were converted to use ifp->if_addr.
- Stop storing a (pointer to) Ethernet address in "struct arpcom",
and drop the IFP2ENADDR() macro; all users have been converted
to use IF_LLADDR() instead.
cards and teach the re(4) driver to attach to revision 3 cards.
Submitted by: Fredrik Lindberg fli+freebsd-current at shapeshifter dot se
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: imp, mdodd
opt_device_polling.h
- Include opt_device_polling.h into appropriate files.
- Embrace with HAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS the include in the files that
can be compiled as loadable modules.
Reviewed by: bde
o Axe poll in trap.
o Axe IFF_POLLING flag from if_flags.
o Rework revision 1.21 (Giant removal), in such a way that
poll_mtx is not dropped during call to polling handler.
This fixes problem with idle polling.
o Make registration and deregistration from polling in a
functional way, insted of next tick/interrupt.
o Obsolete kern.polling.enable. Polling is turned on/off
with ifconfig.
Detailed kern_poll.c changes:
- Remove polling handler flags, introduced in 1.21. The are not
needed now.
- Forget and do not check if_flags, if_capenable and if_drv_flags.
- Call all registered polling handlers unconditionally.
- Do not drop poll_mtx, when entering polling handlers.
- In ether_poll() NET_LOCK_GIANT prior to locking poll_mtx.
- In netisr_poll() axe the block, where polling code asks drivers
to unregister.
- In netisr_poll() and ether_poll() do polling always, if any
handlers are present.
- In ether_poll_[de]register() remove a lot of error hiding code. Assert
that arguments are correct, instead.
- In ether_poll_[de]register() use standard return values in case of
error or success.
- Introduce poll_switch() that is a sysctl handler for kern.polling.enable.
poll_switch() goes through interface list and enabled/disables polling.
A message that kern.polling.enable is deprecated is printed.
Detailed driver changes:
- On attach driver announces IFCAP_POLLING in if_capabilities, but
not in if_capenable.
- On detach driver calls ether_poll_deregister() if polling is enabled.
- In polling handler driver obtains its lock and checks IFF_DRV_RUNNING
flag. If there is no, then unlocks and returns.
- In ioctl handler driver checks for IFCAP_POLLING flag requested to
be set or cleared. Driver first calls ether_poll_[de]register(), then
obtains driver lock and [dis/en]ables interrupts.
- In interrupt handler driver checks IFCAP_POLLING flag in if_capenable.
If present, then returns.This is important to protect from spurious
interrupts.
Reviewed by: ru, sam, jhb
the softc.
- Use callout_init_mtx() and rather than timeout/untimeout in both rl(4)
and re(4).
- Fix locking for ifmedia by locking the driver in the ifmedia handlers
rather than in the miibus functions. (re(4) didn't lock the mii stuff
at all!)
- Fix some locking in re_ioctl().
Note: the two drivers share the same softc declared in if_rlreg.h, so they
had to be change simultaneously.
MFC after: 1 week
Tested by: several on rl(4), none on re(4)
could get an interrupt after we free the ifp, and the interrupt
handler depended on the ifp being still alive, this could, in theory,
cause a crash. Eliminate this possibility by moving the if_free to
after the bus_teardown_intr() call.
possible method to prevent panicing in interrupt handler
after re_shutdown(), sometimes seen on SMP systems.
This would work here only because re_detach() clears
IFF_UP (to prevent another race) and it was demonstrated
that it's not enough to call vr_detach() in vr_shutdown()
to prevent a panic.
- Fixed if_free() logic screw-up that can either result
in freeing a NULL pointer or leaking "struct ifnet".
- Move if_free() after re_stop(); the latter accesses
"struct ifnet". This bug was masked by a previous bug.
- Restore the fix for a panic on detach caused by racing
with BPF detach code by Bill by moving ether_ifdetach()
after re_stop() and resetting IFF_UP; this got screwed
up in revs. 1.30 and 1.36.
interrupt comes in later on, which can happen in some uncommon cases.
Another possible fix is to call re_detach() instead of re_stop(), like
ve(4) does, but I am not sure if the latter is really RTTD, so that stick
with this one-liner for now.
PR: kern/80005
Approved by: silence on -arch, no reply from selected network gurus
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.
Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.
Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days
over iteration of their multicast address lists when synchronizing the
hardware address filter with the network stack-maintained list.
Problem reported by: Ed Maste (emaste at phaedrus dot sandvine dot ca>
MFC after: 1 week
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
to 7422 since it appears that the 8169S can't transmit anything larger..
The 8169S can receive full jumbo frames, but we don't have an mru to let
the upper layers know this...
add fixup so that this driver should work on alignment constrained platforms
(!i386 && !amd64)
MFC after: 5 days
This essentially merges revs 1.143-1.1445 of sys/pci/if_rl.c.
This now marks the interrupt MPSAFE along with making the mutex non-recursive.
Looked over by: bms
this problem put these lines back in. While they should be
unnecessary, they appear to be sometimes necessary.
Reviewed in concept: dfr
Approved by: re (scottl@)
the packets are immediately returned for sending (e.g. when bridging
or packet forwarding). There are more efficient ways to do this
but for now use the least intrusive approach.
Reviewed by: imp, rwatson
multicast hash are written. There are still two distinct algorithms used,
and there actually isn't any reason each driver should have its own copy
of this function as they could all share one copy of it (if it grew an
additional argument).
to the pci attachment. Cardbus is a derived class of pci so all pci
drivers are automatically available for matching against cardbus devices.
Reviewed by: imp
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
device to access 64-bit addresses from a 32-bit PCI bus. While the
RealTek manual says you can set this bit and the chip will perform
DAC only if you give it a DMA address with any of the upper 32
bits set, this appears not to be the case. If I turn on the DAC
bit, the chip sets the 'system error' bit in the status register
when I to do a DMA on my Athlon test box with 32-bit PCI bus (VIA
chipset) even though I only have 128MB of physical memory, and thus
can never give the chip a 64-bit address.
Obviously, I can't just set it and forget it, so until I figure
out the right rule for when it's safe/necessary to enable it, keep
it turned off.
IF_HANDOFF() does it for us behind the scenes. Remove the extra call
to re_start() otherwise we try to transmit twice.
In re_encap(), fix the code that guards against consuming too many
descriptors in the TX ring so that it actually works. With the
new 8169S chip, I was able to hit a corner case that drained the
free descriptor count all the way to 0. This is not supposed to
be possible.
we're on a 32-bit/64-bit bus or not. Use this to decide if we should
set the PCI dual-address cycle enable bit in the C+ command register.
(Enabling DAC on a 32-bit bus seems to do bad things.)
Also, initialize the C+ command register early in the re_init() routine.
The documentation says this register should be configured first.
seems to be necessary for the 8139C+ under certain circumstances, and
doesn't appear to hurt the other chips. (In the failure case, the
packet would be sent through the TX DMA ring but not get echoed
back. I suspect this has something to do with the link state changing
unexpectedly.)
autoload and then copying the contends of the station address
registers. For some reason, reading the EEPROM on the 8169S doesn't
work right. This gets around the problem, and allows us to read
the station address correctly on the 8169S.
- Insert a delay after initiating packet transmition in re_diag() to
allow lots of time for the frame to echo back to the host, and wait
for both the 'RX complete' and 'timeout expired' bits in the ISR
register to be set.
- Deal more intelligently with the fact that the frame length
field in the RX descriptor is a different width on the 8139C+
than it is on the 8169/8169S/8110S
- For the 8169, you have to set bit 17 in the TX config register
to enter digital loopback mode, but for the 8139C+, you have to
set both bits 17 and 18. Take this into account so that re_diag()
works properly for both types of chips.
ethernet chips. This driver is pretty simple, however it contains
special DSP initialization code which is needed in order to get
the chip to negotiate a gigE link. (This special initialization
may not be needed in subsequent chip revs.) Also:
- Fix typo in if_rlreg.h (RL_GMEDIASTAT_1000MPS -> RL_GMEDIASTAT_1000MBPS)
- Deal with shared interrupts in re_intr(): if interface isn't up,
return.
- Fix another bug in re_gmii_writereg() (properly apply data field mask)
- Allow PHY driver to read the RL_GMEDIASTAT register via the
re_gmii_readreg() register (this is register needed to determine
real time link/media status).
for the 8169S, according to my sample board. The RealTek Linux driver
mentions 0x00800000. I'm assigning this to the 8110S until I get
more info on it. (The (preliminary) RealTek docs only say that 8169S/8110S
chips will have some combination of those two bits set, but doesn't say
exactly what bit combination goes with which chip variant.)
rl(4) driver and put it in a new re(4) driver. The re(4) driver shares
the if_rlreg.h file with rl(4) but is a separate module. (Ultimately
I may change this. For now, it's convenient.)
rl(4) has been modified so that it will never attach to an 8139C+
chip, leaving it to re(4) instead. Only re(4) has the PCI IDs to
match the 8169/8169S/8110S gigE chips. if_re.c contains the same
basic code that was originally bolted onto if_rl.c, with the
following updates:
- Added support for jumbo frames. Currently, there seems to be
a limit of approximately 6200 bytes for jumbo frames on transmit.
(This was determined via experimentation.) The 8169S/8110S chips
apparently are limited to 7.5K frames on transmit. This may require
some more work, though the framework to handle jumbo frames on RX
is in place: the re_rxeof() routine will gather up frames than span
multiple 2K clusters into a single mbuf list.
- Fixed bug in re_txeof(): if we reap some of the TX buffers,
but there are still some pending, re-arm the timer before exiting
re_txeof() so that another timeout interrupt will be generated, just
in case re_start() doesn't do it for us.
- Handle the 'link state changed' interrupt
- Fix a detach bug. If re(4) is loaded as a module, and you do
tcpdump -i re0, then you do 'kldunload if_re,' the system will
panic after a few seconds. This happens because ether_ifdetach()
ends up calling the BPF detach code, which notices the interface
is in promiscuous mode and tries to switch promisc mode off while
detaching the BPF listner. This ultimately results in a call
to re_ioctl() (due to SIOCSIFFLAGS), which in turn calls re_init()
to handle the IFF_PROMISC flag change. Unfortunately, calling re_init()
here turns the chip back on and restarts the 1-second timeout loop
that drives re_tick(). By the time the timeout fires, if_re.ko
has been unloaded, which results in a call to invalid code and
blows up the system.
To fix this, I cleared the IFF_UP flag before calling ether_ifdetach(),
which stops the ioctl routine from trying to reset the chip.
- Modified comments in re_rxeof() relating to the difference in
RX descriptor status bit layout between the 8139C+ and the gigE
chips. The layout is different because the frame length field
was expanded from 12 bits to 13, and they got rid of one of the
status bits to make room.
- Add diagnostic code (re_diag()) to test for the case where a user
has installed a broken 32-bit 8169 PCI NIC in a 64-bit slot. Some
NICs have the REQ64# and ACK64# lines connected even though the
board is 32-bit only (in this case, they should be pulled high).
This fools the chip into doing 64-bit DMA transfers even though
there is no 64-bit data path. To detect this, re_diag() puts the
chip into digital loopback mode and sets the receiver to promiscuous
mode, then initiates a single 64-byte packet transmission. The
frame is echoed back to the host, and if the frame contents are
intact, we know DMA is working correctly, otherwise we complain
loudly on the console and abort the device attach. (At the moment,
I don't know of any way to work around the problem other than
physically modifying the board, so until/unless I can think of a
software workaround, this will have do to.)
- Created re(4) man page
- Modified rlphy.c to allow re(4) to attach as well as rl(4).
Note that this code works for the sample 8169/Marvell 88E1000 NIC
that I have, but probably won't work for the 8169S/8110S chips.
RealTek has sent me some sample NICs, but they haven't arrived yet.
I will probably need to add an rlgphy driver to handle the on-board
PHY in the 8169S/8110S (it needs special DSP initialization).
