Re: Call for Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet testers.

From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:44:28 +0900
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:56:02PM -0500, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
 > On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > 
 > >Thanks for testing. The main focus for msk(4) was for getting working
 > >native driver. Performance was not heavily tested and highly likely
 > >to be lower than that of optimal performance. It seems that myk(4) has
 > >several workarounds for better performance but that magic code is hard
 > >to verify wihtout errata information from vendor. :-(
 > >
 > >Btw, I'll commit msk(4) in two days if there is no breakage report
 > >for e1000phy(4).
 > 
 > I have been using the msk driver without any problems on an Intel  
 > SE7520BD2 server board. We have a few of these at work, and it's nice  

I guess it uses 88E8050. Would you post msk(4)/e1000phy(4) attach
message in dmesg?

 > to see that we will finally be able to use this second NIC on these  
 > boards!
 > 
 > At this point, are there plans to MFC the e1000phy changes and the  
 > msk driver?
 > 

The msk(4) requires new APIs in CURRENT to support MSI/TSO.
If jhb_at_ MFC his MSI support code and andre_at_ MFC his TSO support code
it could be done without much trouble. If they don't I have to write
a couple of code fragments which disables MSI/TSO which in turn takes
a time than that of usual MFC candidate.
ATM I think it takes 1 month provided that MSI/TSO code is MFCed.

 > Thanks for all your hard work!
 > 
 > Andy
 > 
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
Received on Tue Dec 12 2006 - 11:45:22 UTC

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