performance and reliability a little. There was a condition before
where transmission would stall during periods of heavy traffic
exchange between two hosts. Also set the 'want interrupt' bit in
receive descriptor control words.
on the ASIX AX88140A chip. Update /sys/conf/files, RELNOTES.TXT,
/sys/i388/i386/userconfig.c, sysinstall/devices.c, GENERIC and LINT
accordingly.
For now, the only board that I know of that uses this chip is the
Alfa Inc. GFC2204. (Its predecessor, the GFC2202, was a DEC tulip card.)
Thanks again to Ulf for obtaining the board for me. If anyone runs
across another, please feel free to update the man page and/or the
release notes. (The same applies for the other drivers.)
FreeBSD should now have support for all of the DEC tulip workalike
chipsets currently on the market (Macronix, Lite-On, Winbond, ASIX).
And unless I'm mistaken, it should also have support for all PCI fast
ethernet chipsets in general (except maybe the SMC FEAST chip, which
nobody seems to ever use, including SMC). Now if only we could convince
3Com, Intel or whoever to cough up some documentation for gigabit
ethernet hardware.
Also updated RELNOTEX.TXT to mention that the SVEC PN102TX is supported
by the Macronix driver (assuming you actually have an SVEC PN102TX with
a Macronix chip on it; I tried to order a PN102TX once and got a box
labeled 'Hawking Technology PN102TX' that had a VIA Rhine board inside
it).
and mx_setcfg() so that we can read the internal MII registers on the
MX98713 chip correctly. With these changes, media autoselection now
works correctly on the original 98713. All Macronix chips should now
be properly supported (unless there's a surprise waiting in the 98725).
Thanks to Ulf Zimmermann for providing a 98713 board.
isolated to revision 33 PNIC chips is also present in revision 32 chips.
Cards with rev. 32 chips include the LinkSys LNE100TX and the Matrox
FastNIC 10/100. This accounts for all the cards that I have to test
with.
(I was never able to personally trip the bug on this chip rev, but today
one of the guys in the lab did it with the software they're working on
for their cellular IP project, which uses BPF and promiscuous mode
extensively.)
This commit enables the promiscuous mode software workaround code for
both revison 32 and revision 33 chips. It's possible all of the PNIC
chips suffer from this bug, but these are the only two revs where I
know for a fact it exists.
chip revisions. (A buggy taiwanese chip? I'm just shocked; shocked I tell
you.) So far I have only observed the anomalous behavior on board with
PCI revision 33 chips. At the moment, this seems to include only the
Netgear FA310-TX rev D1 boards with chips labeled NGMC169B. (Possibly this
means it's an 82c169B part from Lite-On.)
The bug only manifests itself in promiscuous mode, and usually only at
10Mbps half-duplex. (I have not observed the problem in full-duplex mode,
and I don't think it ever happens at 100Mbps.) The bug appears to be in
the receiver DMA engine. Normally, the chip is programmed with a linked
list of receiver descriptors, each with a receive buffer capable of holding
a complete full-sized ethernet frame. During periods of heavy traffic
(i.e. ping -c 100 -f 8100 <otherhost>), the receiver will sometimes appear
to upload its entire FIFO memory contents instead of just uploading the
desired received frame. The uploaded data will span several receive
buffers, in spite of the fact that the chip has been told to only use
one descriptor per frame, and appears to consist of previously transmitted
frames with the correct received frame appended to the end.
Unfortunately, there is no way to determine exactly how much data is
uploaded when this happens; the chip doesn't tell you anything except the
size of the desired received frame, and the amount of bogus data varies.
Sometimes, the desired frame is also split across multiple buffers.
The workaround is ugly and nasty. The driver assembles all of the data
from the bogus frames into a single buffer. The receive buffers are always
zeroed out, and we program the chip to always include the receive CRC
at the end of each frame. We therefore know that we can start from the
end of the buffer and scan back until we encounter a non-zero data byte,
and say conclusively that this is the end of the desired frame. We can
then subtract the frame length from this address to determine the real
start of the frame, and copy it into an mbuf and pass it on.
This is kludgy and time consuming, but it's better than dropping frames.
It's not too bad since the problem only happens at 10Mbps.
The workaround is only enabled for chips with PCI revision == 33. The
LinkSys LNE100TX and Matrox FastNIC 10/100 cards use a revision 32 chip
and work fine in promiscuous mode. Netgear support has confirmed that
they "have some previous knowledge of problems in promiscuous mode" but
didn't have a workaround. The people at Lite-On who would be able to
suggest a possible fix are on vacation. So, I decided to implement a
workaround of my own until I hear from them. I suppose this problem made
it through Netgear's QA department since Windows doesn't normally use
promiscuous mode, and if Windows doesn't need the feature than it can't
possibly be important, right? Grrr.
this has a problem with capture but i am not sure if it is related
to the mixer or what else.
But in the meantime, this is ok to listen to mpegs.
I also have a much simpler version of the driver in the works which
reuses a lot more of the existing "pcm" routines. Next year...
they use the same value in the VID register.
PR kern/9137: Matrox Mystique chip name typo error
Submitted by: Alex D. Chen <dhchen@Canvas.dorm7.nccu.edu.tw>
AcerLabs Aladdin-V. It makes the PCI probing work when system booting. I
will try to merge some additional funtion(i.e. wdc1 problem cause tons of
PR appear :<) ASAP if I could.
Remind me if something wrong after committing, thanks!
The Winbond chip always includes the CRC with every received frame,
and I can't find anything in the Winbond manual that indicates you can
program it not to do this.
most of them).
Many thanks to Kevin Van Maren for the work here, Intel for lending us
a 450NX system to work this out on, and several other folks for testing
the patches. See the PR for an extensive discussion of the nature of
the problem and resolution.
PR: kern/8928
Submitted by: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>
0x02000000. This error was causing the chip to always include the
ethernet CRC along with every received frame (the driver turns on
PN_NETCFG_NO_RXCRC, but it was frobbing the wrong bit).
const char *. Originally I was going to add casts from const char * to
char * in some of the pci device drivers, but the reality is that the
pci device probes return constant quoted strings.
as a RealTek 8139
if_rlreg.h: use bus_space_read_X() in CSR_READ_X() macros instead of
directly calling inb()/outb() etc...
rl.4 + RELNOTES.TXT: mention that SMC EtherEZ PCI 1211-TX is supported
by the RealTek driver
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.
for possible buffer overflow problems. Replaced most sprintf()'s
with snprintf(); for others cases, added terminating NUL bytes where
appropriate, replaced constants like "16" with sizeof(), etc.
These changes include several bug fixes, but most changes are for
maintainability's sake. Any instance where it wasn't "immediately
obvious" that a buffer overflow could not occur was made safer.
Reviewed by: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Reviewed by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Reviewed by: Mike Spengler <mks@networkcs.com>
during a trek through RCS. The Macronix 98713 and 98713A both have the
same PCI device ID but different revision numbers, and we need to be
able to tell one from the other. The 98715 and 98715A chips have the
same device ID as the 98725 chip but different revision numbers, however
we lump them into the same category except when identifying them during
the PCI probe output.
The main reason we need tell the chips apart is that the Macronix app
notes say you have to write a special magic number into one of the
registers in order to put the chip in normal operating mode. The 98713
requires one magic value, while all the others require a different one.
PCI fast ethernet adapters, plus man pages.
if_pn.c: Netgear FA310TX model D1, LinkSys LNE100TX, Matrox FastNIC 10/100,
various other PNIC devices
if_mx.c: NDC Communications SOHOware SFA100 (Macronix 98713A), various
other boards based on the Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A
and 98725 chips
if_vr.c: D-Link DFE530-TX, other boards based on the VIA Rhine and
Rhine II chips (note: the D-Link and certain other cards
that actually use a Rhine II chip still return the PCI
device ID of the Rhine I. I don't know why, and it doesn't
really matter since the driver treats both chips the same
anyway.)
if_wb.c: Trendware TE100-PCIE and various other cards based on the
Winbond W89C840F chip (the Trendware card is identical to
the sample boards Winbond sent me, so who knows how many
clones there are running around)
All drivers include support for ifmedia, BPF and hardware multicast
filtering.
Also updated GENERIC, LINT, RELNOTES.TXT, userconfig and
sysinstall device list.
I also have a driver for the ASIX AX88140A in the works.
which is either a RealTek 8139 in disguise or a RealTek workalike.
This commit fixes the PCI vendor/device ID for this device
and updates the description string to reflect the actual identity
of the device.
I also changed the transmit encapsulation routine to always to
buffer copies on transmit. We end up doing this 99% of the time
anyway. I also tweaked the code that pads packets out to the minimum
length (60) bytes. I was fixing up the m_pkthdr.len value but not
m_len. I don't think this makes that much difference in the grand
scheme of things, but it makes me feel better.
truncated to 32 bits.
* Change the calling convention of the device mmap entry point to
pass a vm_offset_t instead of an int for the offset allowing
devices with a larger memory map than (1<<32) to be supported
on the alpha (/dev/mem is one such).
These changes are required to allow the X server to mmap the various
I/O regions used for device port and memory access on the alpha.
base register that controls Ultra-DMA, so we need to examine all possible
base registers instead of just giving up at the first empty one.
Also, looking at the source code to the BIOS, I see that they are also
checking for 0xffffffff as an invalid value so do the same. Stefan may like
to clean this up, but at least now I can find my PCI IDE registers.
and increase the tx interrupt threshold to 4. This fixes performance
problems on slower systems.
Also fix a mind-o in the rx ring init routine: I used the TX
constant instead of the RX. This isn't a problem as long as the
rings are the same size, but if they aren't hijinx will ensue.
a vga.
* Fix broken logic in syscons for a failed probe.
* Fix AlphaStation 500/600 so that non-serial consoles are supported.
Submitted by: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> (vga bits),
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> (AS500/AS600)
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.
RealTek 8129/8139 chipset like I've been threatening. Update kernel
configs, userconfig.c, relnotes and sysinstall. No man page yet;
comming soon.
I consider this driver stable enough that I want to give it some
exposure in -current.
fxp_stop is called as the first thing in fxp_init, and if the tx desc
list has junk in it, the system may panic. This bug showed up as a side
effect of the changes in rev 1.56, but has been in the code since the
beginning.
this myself for ages, but wasn't able to get any feedback from the people
that I sent it to for testing.
Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> has given it a shot (before getting on
a plane, thanks!) and it appears to stop his reproducable page fault panic
in the testing he was able to do.
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
Disable DPARCKEN in the DSCOMMAND0 register on the aic7890/91/96/97.
Parity checking is broken for some chip/MB combinations and this
is the work around recommended by Adaptec.
dpt_pci.c:
Remove a superflous '{' that prevented DPT_ALLOW_MEMIO from working.
pcireg.h:
Add a definition for Parity Error Reponse bit in the PCI Space
command register.
routines are necessary to allow the use of certain types of hardware on
the alpha, particularly a Myrinet card.
Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
memory mapped mode. There are some laptop docking stations with
built-in tlan chips where memory mapped mode doesn't work correctly.
Pointed out by: jmb
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.
PHYs in tl_attach(). This is mainly to suck away any possible stray
interrupts.
This prevents an intermittent problem on some systems where the adapter
probes correctly but yields a device timeout (and possible subsequent adapter
check) when configured. When I originally tested the driver, I ifconfig'ed
the interface after the system had already been booted and didn't notice
any problems, but when configuring the interface immediately at startup,
it would occasionally timeout and hang, until an adapter check interrupt
came along and reset things again. I'm not exactly sure if this is a
general problem of just something peculiar to this hardware (there are
three devices, including the tlan, all on IRQ 11) but the extra reset
shouldn't hurt anything. (It works fine with my 100Mbps Olicom adapter too.)
Thanks to Mark Taylor from Cybernet (mtaylor@cybernet.com) for allowing
me remote access to a Compaq system for debugging purposes.
