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

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:

> 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
>

Sorry for the late reply. This is the output, including your latest 
round of changes (As committed):

dmesg:

mskc0: <Marvell Yukon 88E8050 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfcffc000-0xfcffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci6
mskc0: [FAST]
msk0: <Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon EC Id 0xb6 Rev 0x01> on mskc0
msk0: Ethernet address: 00:04:23:b0:d2:cf
miibus0: <MII bus> on msk0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto

ifconfig:

msk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 	options=19a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4>
 	inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
 	ether 00:04:23:b0:d2:cf
 	media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
 	status: active

pciconf -vl

mskc0_at_pci6:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x50218086 chip=0x436111ab rev=0x17 hdr=0x00

     vendor   = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
     device   = '88E8036 Marvell Yukon -EC 88E8036 PCI Express Fast Ethernet Controller'
     class    = network
     subclass = ethernet

Thanks again! :)

Andy

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