Re: TLP driver in generic

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

In article <200302081646.h18Gkq610837%buzzard.buzzard.freeserve.co.uk@localhost>
rearnsha%buzzard.freeserve.co.uk@localhost wrote:

> I've just noticed that the GENERIC kernel is still configured to use the 
> TLP ethernet driver (and this includes 1.6.1 sources).  On my machine this 
> *just does not work*.
> 
> Has anyone else managed to get this driver working on a Cats?  If not, why 
> haven't we rolled by to the de driver which does work?

Hmm, I'm using 21140A (SMC Ether Power) with tlp driver
for years on my cats and there is no problem.
(There are some chip-dependent problem with tlp driver?)
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost


NetBSD 1.6M (DIAMANTE) #329: Sat Feb  1 21:47:14 JST 2003
    root@:/usr/src/sys/arch/cats/compile/DIAMANTE
total memory = 128 MB
avail memory = 112 MB
using 1228 buffers containing 6656 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: SA-110 step S (SA-1 core)
cpu0: DC enabled IC enabled WB enabled EABT
cpu0: 16KB/32B 32-way Instruction cache
cpu0: 16KB/32B 32-way write-back Data cache
footbridge0 at mainbus0: DC21285 rev 3
pci0 at footbridge0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
 :
tlp0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: DECchip 21140A Ethernet, pass 2.0
tlp0: broken MicroWire interface detected; setting SROM size to 1Kb
tlp0: interrupting at irq 8
tlp0: Ethernet address 00:00:c0:ee:e4:f8
nsphy0 at tlp0 phy 3: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 :
tlp0: transmit underrun; new threshold: 96/256 bytes
tlp0: transmit underrun; new threshold: 128/512 bytes
tlp0: transmit underrun; new threshold: 160/1024 bytes
 :

% netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Colls
tlp0  1500  <Link>        00:00:c0:ee:e4:f8 13430670     0 14643540     3     0
tlp0  1500  192.168.20    192.168.20.8      13430670     0 14643540     3     0
tlp0  1500  fe80::/64     fe80::200:c0ff:fe 13430670     0 14643540     3     0