2002-03-14 00:28:46

by David Miller

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Subject: [BETA-0.97] Eigth test release of Tigon3 driver


>From the usual location:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3-0.97.patch.gz

Changes in this release:

[FIX] Lots of VLAN layer fixes from Chris Leech.
[FIX] Fix a bug in Tigon3 fibre negotiation state machine
where it could run forever. Reported by Erik Habbinga.
[FIX] Do not lose network statistics around down/up of interface
for Tigon3. Broadcom's driver has this bug too.
[FIX] Small bug fix for PHY setup on 5703 A1 revisions.
[FEATURE] Add many new tunables, via ethtool, to Tigon3
for controlling:
1) Coelaescing, interrupt mitigation
2) RX/TX ring sizes
3) Pause flow control settings
4) RX/TX checksumming and scatter-gather
Please note that these new bits have not been
added to Jeff's ethtool userland tool but they
will be added soon.

I'm probably going to bump the version to 1.0 and push this to Marcelo
for 2.4.x in the next couple of days. Jeff has already included this
driver (and I the VLAN layer stuff) into 2.5.x

Enjoy.


2002-03-22 21:38:00

by Pasi Kärkkäinen

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Subject: Re: [BETA-0.97] Eigth test release of Tigon3 driver


On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> >From the usual location:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3-0.97.patch.gz
>
> Changes in this release:
>
> [FIX] Lots of VLAN layer fixes from Chris Leech.
> [FIX] Fix a bug in Tigon3 fibre negotiation state machine
> where it could run forever. Reported by Erik Habbinga.
> [FIX] Do not lose network statistics around down/up of interface
> for Tigon3. Broadcom's driver has this bug too.
> [FIX] Small bug fix for PHY setup on 5703 A1 revisions.
> [FEATURE] Add many new tunables, via ethtool, to Tigon3
> for controlling:
> 1) Coelaescing, interrupt mitigation
> 2) RX/TX ring sizes
> 3) Pause flow control settings
> 4) RX/TX checksumming and scatter-gather
> Please note that these new bits have not been
> added to Jeff's ethtool userland tool but they
> will be added soon.
>
> I'm probably going to bump the version to 1.0 and push this to Marcelo
> for 2.4.x in the next couple of days. Jeff has already included this
> driver (and I the VLAN layer stuff) into 2.5.x
>

tg3.c:v0.97 (Mar 13, 2002)
eth2: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95700A6) rev 7102 PHY(5401)] (PCI:33MHz:64-bit)
10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:04:76:2f:c2:b0

eth2: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
eth2: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.

05:03.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5700
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-T 1000BaseTX
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
Memory at fd300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3
Enable-


Seems to work.. but I guess I shouldn't say anything yet because uptime is
only 20 minutes so far :)

We'll see.

How about vlans.. should it say something about enabling hardware vlan
tagging when I configure some vlans?


- Pasi K?rkk?inen

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2002-03-22 21:46:29

by David Miller

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Subject: Re: [BETA-0.97] Eigth test release of Tigon3 driver

From: Pasi K?rkk?inen <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:37:34 +0200 (EET)

How about vlans.. should it say something about enabling hardware vlan
tagging when I configure some vlans?

It just should work. The VLAN layer might print something out,
but the tg3 driver won't have anything interesting to say.

2002-03-22 21:53:10

by Pasi Kärkkäinen

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Subject: Re: [BETA-0.97] Eigth test release of Tigon3 driver

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Pasi K?rkk?inen <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:37:34 +0200 (EET)
>
> How about vlans.. should it say something about enabling hardware vlan
> tagging when I configure some vlans?
>
> It just should work. The VLAN layer might print something out,
> but the tg3 driver won't have anything interesting to say.

OK. Seems to work.

If I find some problems I'll let you know..


- Pasi K?rkk?inen

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