large (over 4KB) softc struct. The descriptor array is accessed by
busmaster dma and must be physically contiguous in memory. malloc() of
a block greater than a page is only virtually contiguous, and not
necessarily physically contigious.
contigmalloc() could do this, but that is a bit on the overkill side.
I'm not sure of the origins of the problem report and diagnosis, I learned
of the problem via mail forwarded from Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>.
Jim said that Matt Thomas's workaround was to reduce the number of
transmit descriptors from 128 to 32, but I was concerned that it might
cost performance. Anyway, this change is my fault, not Jim's. :-)
Reviewed by: davidg
changes relative to the 2.2 compatable version are include file
related, the new multicast interface (!) and the new PCI interface.
This should work "as-is" but has not been tested (I have not been able
to get a dc21x4x based card for testing).
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
previous hackery involving struct in_ifaddr and arpcom. Get rid of the
abominable multi_kludge. Update all network interfaces to use the
new machanism. Distressingly few Ethernet drivers program the multicast
filter properly (assuming the hardware has one, which it usually does).
a) Removal of private typedefs tulip_uint*_t, use standard u_int_*_t.
b) Change [Dd][Cc]21.4. to just 21.4., seems Dec has done this to all
of the drivers for all OS's. (Did they get in trouble with someone?)
[The few that remain can either not be eliminated, or are waiting for
additional driver functional changes that will remove them.]
c) Move some code from dc21040.h into the driver, later a whole block of that
code and more will move to devar.h, but for now this makes it easier
to study diffs.
d) Add a big bold comment to the README.de file about it not reflecting
reality anymore.
Note that these are all cosmetic changes and should be no functional
change in the driver whatsoever. If _anyone_ spots a problem introduced
by this please let me know ASAP!
changes. This version should fix a number of bugs such as with auto-
speed sensing and at least one known panic.
Submitted by: Matt Thomas (matt@3am-software.com)
I spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why my
experiment didn't work the way I expected, only to find out that
the router was dropping huge numbers of packets because of PCI bus
priblems. This does not fix the bug that errors are counted as
input packets because my patch doesn't apply cleanly.
- fill in and use ifp->if_softc
- use if_bpf rather than private cookie variables
- change bpf interface to take advantage of this
- call ether_ifattach() directly from Ethernet drivers
- delete kludge in if_attach() that did this indirectly
"I screwed the initialization of the burstsize. Right now it will default
to 0 (which can cause corruption problems on high latency PCI buses). It
should be set to 8 longwords to avoid problems with certain PCI chipsets."
Submitted by: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>
etc.). The tulip_start routine was rewritten to use less stack space (I've
been having problems with wcarchive overflowing the stack and this should
help a little). This version also has preliminary NetBSD support.
Rod Grimes helped in testing this version of the driver. Thanks Rod. It's
additionally been extensively tested here and on wcarchive.
Submitted by: Matt Thomas
to most users (the wrong length is passed to ether_input). The
second is more serious. The multicast hash algorithm uses the wrong
(low) bits instead of the right (high) bits. This is only an issue
if you use >12 multicast addresses but if you are using IP multicast
then it might affect you...
Submitted by: Matt Thomas
thrown out if bpfilter support and no BPF listener. (submitted by Bill
Fenner)
Removed unused variable and changed another from a stack variable to a
static - the variable was a rather large array of structs that consumed
a lot of stack space. (me)
fragmented.
Added support for Cogent em100 boards.
Fixed bug that caused BPF to toggle the card to UTP.
Various other improvements.
Submitted by: Matt Thomas and David Greenman
got a 2.2 version DC21040 chip in my SMC ethernet card! He suggests bumping
the check all the way down to 2.0 since it's pre-2.0 we're actually guarding
against.
Submitted by: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>
