This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
net: ethernet: pcnet32: Setup the SRAM and NOUFLO on Am79C97{3, 5}
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From ec8a38597893b5fce8539244604c1c4c000fed12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:28:14 +0000
Subject: net: ethernet: pcnet32: Setup the SRAM and NOUFLO on Am79C97{3, 5}
commit 87f966d97b89774162df04d2106c6350c8fe4cb3 upstream.
On a MIPS Malta board, tons of fifo underflow errors have been observed
when using u-boot as bootloader instead of YAMON. The reason for that
is that YAMON used to set the pcnet device to SRAM mode but u-boot does
not. As a result, the default Tx threshold (64 bytes) is now too small to
keep the fifo relatively used and it can result to Tx fifo underflow errors.
As a result of which, it's best to setup the SRAM on supported controllers
so we can always use the NOUFLO bit.
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Don Fry <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
index e7cc9174e364..02d3b7975835 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
@@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int shared, struct pci_dev *pdev)
{
struct pcnet32_private *lp;
int i, media;
- int fdx, mii, fset, dxsuflo;
+ int fdx, mii, fset, dxsuflo, sram;
int chip_version;
char *chipname;
struct net_device *dev;
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int shared, struct pci_dev *pdev)
}
/* initialize variables */
- fdx = mii = fset = dxsuflo = 0;
+ fdx = mii = fset = dxsuflo = sram = 0;
chip_version = (chip_version >> 12) & 0xffff;
switch (chip_version) {
@@ -1622,6 +1622,7 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int shared, struct pci_dev *pdev)
chipname = "PCnet/FAST III 79C973"; /* PCI */
fdx = 1;
mii = 1;
+ sram = 1;
break;
case 0x2626:
chipname = "PCnet/Home 79C978"; /* PCI */
@@ -1645,6 +1646,7 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int shared, struct pci_dev *pdev)
chipname = "PCnet/FAST III 79C975"; /* PCI */
fdx = 1;
mii = 1;
+ sram = 1;
break;
case 0x2628:
chipname = "PCnet/PRO 79C976";
@@ -1673,6 +1675,31 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int shared, struct pci_dev *pdev)
dxsuflo = 1;
}
+ /*
+ * The Am79C973/Am79C975 controllers come with 12K of SRAM
+ * which we can use for the Tx/Rx buffers but most importantly,
+ * the use of SRAM allow us to use the BCR18:NOUFLO bit to avoid
+ * Tx fifo underflows.
+ */
+ if (sram) {
+ /*
+ * The SRAM is being configured in two steps. First we
+ * set the SRAM size in the BCR25:SRAM_SIZE bits. According
+ * to the datasheet, each bit corresponds to a 512-byte
+ * page so we can have at most 24 pages. The SRAM_SIZE
+ * holds the value of the upper 8 bits of the 16-bit SRAM size.
+ * The low 8-bits start at 0x00 and end at 0xff. So the
+ * address range is from 0x0000 up to 0x17ff. Therefore,
+ * the SRAM_SIZE is set to 0x17. The next step is to set
+ * the BCR26:SRAM_BND midway through so the Tx and Rx
+ * buffers can share the SRAM equally.
+ */
+ a->write_bcr(ioaddr, 25, 0x17);
+ a->write_bcr(ioaddr, 26, 0xc);
+ /* And finally enable the NOUFLO bit */
+ a->write_bcr(ioaddr, 18, a->read_bcr(ioaddr, 18) | (1 << 11));
+ }
+
dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*lp));
if (!dev) {
ret = -ENOMEM;