Re: Call for testers: Atheros AR8121(L1E)/AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:48:45PM +0900, To freebsd-current_at_FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06:37PM +0900, To freebsd-current_at_FreeBSD.org wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > Hi,
 >  > 
 >  > I had been working on writing a driver for Atheros AR8121(L1E),
 >  > AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet controllers since Jeremy Chadwick sent
 >  > the hardware to me. I think it's feature complete state and time
 >  > for more testing for stability or some edge cases. I guess AR81xx
 >  > is commonly found on newer Asus EeePC or P5Q series of Asus
 >  > motherboard. If you have AR81xx controller would you give it spin
 >  > and let me know how it goes? You can get the latest driver at the
 >  > following URL.
 >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_ate.c
 >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atereg.h
 >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atevar.h
 >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/Makefile
 >  > or
 >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/ate.20081030.tar.gz
 >  > The driver should build without problems on CURRENT, stable/7.
 >  > 
 >  > ATM the driver supports the following hardware features.
 >  >  - TSO
 >  >  - Rx TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload
 >  >  - VLAN tag insertion/stripping
 >  >  - Jumbo frame
 >  >  - WOL
 >  > It seems that hardware supports Tx checksum offload but I couldn't
 >  > make it work for TCP segments. Only short TCP segments seem to work
 >  > so I disabled Tx checksum offload.
 >  > Note, the hardware does not support descriptor based DMA on Rx side
 >  > so driver have to copy recevied frames to pass them to upper stack
 >  > so it will consume a lot of CPU cycles if you push the hardware to
 >  > the limit.
 >  > 
 > 
 > As bruffer pointed out the device name chosen conflicts with other
 > driver in tree so I renamed it to ale(4).The URL for the driver is
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile
 > or
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081030.tar.gz
 > Sorry for confusion.
 > 

FYI:
There was a typo that keep ale(4) from building on stable/7. It was
fixed now and I reuploaded related files(URLs are the same as before).
-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon