the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
header parser uses m_pullup(9) to get access to mbuf chain.
m_pullup(9) can allocate new mbuf chain and free old one if the
space left in the mbuf chain is not enough to hold requested
contiguous bytes. Previously drivers can use stale ip/tcp header
pointer if m_pullup(9) returned new mbuf chain.
Reported by: Andrew Boyer (aboyer <> averesystems dot com)
MFC after: 10 days
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
It seems that some revision of controller hang while accessing
the VPD. Because VPD access routine are unused, nuke it.
o Let TWSI reload EEPROM if VPD capability is detected. Reloading
EEPROM will also set ethernet address so age(4) now reads AGE_PAR0
and AGE_PAR1 register to get ethernet address. This removes a lot
of hack and enhance readability a lot.
o Double PHY reset timeout as it takes more time to take PHY out of
power-saving state.
o Explicitly check power-saving state by checking undocumented PHY
registers. If link is not up, poke undocumented registers to take
PHY out of power-saving state. This is the same way what Linux
does. On resume, make sure to wake up PHY.
o Don't rely on auto-clearing feature of master reset bit, just wait
1ms and check idle status of MAC.
o Add PCI device revision information in bootverbose mode.
This should fix occasional controller hang in device attach phase.
Reported by: barbara < barbara.xxx1975 at libero DOT it >
Tested by: barbara < barbara.xxx1975 at libero DOT it >
controller. L1 has several threshold/timer registers and they
seem to require careful tuned parameters to get best
performance. Datasheet for L1 is not available to open source
driver writers so age(4) focus on stability and correctness of
basic Tx/Rx operation. ATM the performance of age(4) is far from
optimal which in turn means there are mis-programmed registers or
incorrectly configured registers.
Currently age(4) supports all known hardware assistance including
- MSI support.
- TCP Segmentation Offload.
- Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping.
- TCP/UDP checksum offload.
- Interrupt moderation.
- Hardware statistics counter support.
- Jumbo frame support.
- WOL support.
L1 gigabit ethernet controller is mainly found on ASUS
motherboards. Note, it seems that there are other variants of
hardware as known as L2(Fast ethernet) and newer gigabit ethernet
(AR81xx) from Atheros. These are not supported by age(4) and
requires a seperate driver. Big thanks to all people who reported
feedback or tested patches.
Tested by: kevlo, bsam, Francois Ranchin < fyr AT fyrou DOT net >
Thomas Nystroem < thn AT saeab DOT se >
Roman Pogosyan < asternetadmin AT gmail DOT com >
Derek Tattersal < dlt AT mebtel DOT net >
Oliver Seitz < karlkiste AT yahoo DOT com >
