Re: call for sk(4) testers

On Thu Jan 12 03:33:19 PST 2006 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> Here is modified sk(4) that makes use of bus_dma(9). It was lightly
> tested on sparc64(SMP)/i386(SMP).
> ...
> You can get latest sk(4) driver from the following URL.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/if_sk.c
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/if_skreg.h
> ...
> I'd like to hear any success/failure reports. If you have a NIC that
> is supported by sk(4) please give it a try and let me know the result.

Here my short status report:

History: In November 2004 I bought a new motherboard with 
Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)/<Marvell 88E1000 
Gigabit PHY, but this was unusable under FreeBSD 5.3. A short time 
later an errata notice was created for this release. So I used this 
NIC for slow DSL connection only. 

Some weeks ago I changed my LAN architecture, I wanted to use the 1GB 
NIC with sk0 and thought the OS has now (6.0) working drivers. But 
immediately I has some locks and "sk0 watchdog timeouts". So I tried 
the mentioned drivers.

The result is - very good. I'm using the driver from the web site
MD5 (if_sk.c) = 2ce9867445df8e1bfe6075597a0de87c
MD5 (if_skreg.h) = c8b572ae9fa3b536af86dff07a5c75e9
with  6.1-PRERELEASE-200602270917 i386
and had no problems until now.

Thanks for this work, it seems to be a real improvement.

Regards,
   Frank
-- 
Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany
PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.