Subject: Re: A few Sun4m changes
To: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/22/1996 22:43:28
> So if the man page says the driver can do something, does that make the
> driver automatically do it? :-) See my previous message...the PROM 
> doesn't give us much help on bootup. Also, if link0 is not specified,
> lehwinit() will clear the TP bit, forcing it to AUI. I'm not sure what 
> the best way to solve this is...anyone have ideas?

I suppose there must be a way to find out on which connector there's a
carrier present. `carrier loss' is reported on the AUI interface when
sending a packet. `link test beats' should be available on TP, but I'm
not sure whether these are also reported in the chip's carrier status bit.

-pk