Re: Call for stge(4) testers

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:53:44AM +0000, Bill Paul wrote:
 > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0000, Csaba Henk wrote:
 > >  > On 2006-07-06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
 > >  > > What model/maker you've got(pciconf -lv output)?
 > >  > 
 > >  > stge0_at_pci0:11:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x545013f0 chip=0x102113f0 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00
 > >  >     vendor   = 'Sundance Technology Inc'
 > >  >     class    = network
 > >  >     subclass = ethernet
 > >  > 
 > >  > And this is what shows up in dmesg:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: stge0: <Sundance TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xef000000-0xef0001ff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
 > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: stge0: phy read fail
 > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone last message repeated 31 times
 > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: miibus2: <MII bus> on stge0
 > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus2
 > >  > Jul  6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > Since your NIC has a Marvell PHY and shows many "phy read fail"
 > > message I have to investigate the root cause. I don't have
 > > TC9021 NIC with Marvell PHY. So I can't sure I can fix it.
 > > 
 > > Does ifconfig(8) reports correct link speed/status?
 > > Does "phy read fail" message shows only at device attach time?
 > 
 > FYI: I don't know if you have them or not, but a long time ago I
 > stashed away copies of the TC9020/TC9021 programming manuals. The
 > provenance of these parts is a little murky. I first learned of them
 > as being Sundance Technologies devices, but later I found references to
 > them belonging to a company called Tamarack M.I. Later still, a
 > company called ICplus ended up with them. ICplus eventually produced
 > a single chip device combining the TC902x MAC with an integrated PHY
 > (though I've yet to actually see a NIC that uses these anywhere).
 > 

ASUS NX1101 and some motherboards from ABIT have IC Plus GigE controller.

 > Sundance and Tamarack seem to have disappeared, but ICplus is still
 > around (www.icplus.com.tw) and they still have the gigE MAC and PHY
 > manuals online. They deleted the original TC902x manuals from their site,

Yes, the online manuals are useless.

 > but I saved copies. :) I put all the manuals I have for these devices at
 > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Sundance along with the original ST201
 > manual. Note that I didn't have to sign any NDAs to get any of these.
 > 

Thank you very very much. I really appreciate it. I mailed to guys
working for IC Plus a couple of of times and they all requested to
sign NDAs so I gave up.

 > In case you can't tell, the hardware API for the ST201 and the TC902x
 > is copied very closely from the 3Com 3c90xB/3c90xC devices.
 > 
 > Anyway, I'm posting these in case they help with maintaining the driver
 > (or if anyone just wants to tinker around with the hardware). Share
 > and enjoy!
 > 
 > -Bill
 > 

Thanks again. I hope I can solve JUMBO frame issues soon.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon