At 01:14 PM 5/11/2002, Dave Huang wrote:
>On Fri, 10 May 2002, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > At this time, I think macppc should switch to gem and move gm into the
> > Attic.
>
>It seems to be working well for me on my PowerMac G4 Gigabit ethernet
>(connected to a 100BaseTX switch), except I occasionally got these
>messages while running build.sh with /usr/src on an NFS filesystem:
>
>May 11 06:00:53 greyfox /netbsd: gem0: MAC rx fault, status 5
>
>What's status 5 mean?

My best guess is the GEM_RX_FRAME_COUNT register (which is 16bit)
is overflowing or flipping the MSB.  I just submitted a fix which
should suppress these interrupts/messages.


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