Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:13:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | David C Niemi <> | Subject | Re: For the love of god!!! PLEASE somebody update 3com vortex config listing. |
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On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Torbjorn Lindgren wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Michael H. Warfield wrote: ... > > I have just seen a patch on the vortex mailing list (vortex was the > > code name for the 3c59x cards while boomerang is the code name for their > > successors, the 3c90x cards) which claims to now fix both the cable > > disconnect and the 16 retries problem. The explanation seems plausable and > > the patch looks reasonable. I'll be checking this out later today. If this > > shoots these two dragons in the 0.41 driver, we need the subsequent 0.42 > > driver in the kernel ASAP. > > It's not that urgent if we get the "0.31" driver in first, the one used in > pre-2. It doesn't use DMA, but it's a known working version that can be > used until the DMA version has shaked down.
The performance of a 3c905 in PIO mode at 100Mb/sec is quite pointless, you really need bus-mastering at that speed for it to be worth using that card (especially when there are cheaper cards that work fine that way). Furthermore, the 0.41 3c905 driver is a big improvement over 0.40, and IMHO the busmastering support *is* going to get stable soon.
When I talked to Donald Becker a couple of weeks ago he was planning to be working on both 3c59x/905 and tulip drivers right about now, and was looking at the reported problems and patches. He also was planning to get these new versions into 2.0.31. So unless 2.0.31 is going to come out within the next week I'd suggest just being more patient.
For those who would like to *help* him, I'd suggest trying to test and collect together patches and problem reports in a much more concise form before sending them to him or the driver mailing lists, and concentrate testing on 0.41 plus 0.41 with the couple of patches to it that others have come up with (and 0.76 plus patches on the tulip side). It is amazing how many people write messages addressed personally to Donald out of the blue describing a problem in the 0.40 driver which everyone has beaten to death for 2 months already; so Donald sometimes ends up missing more important messages due to the high volume.
It would also be a good idea for everyone with Epic (SMC EtherPower II) 10/100 cards to get busy testing out his epic100.c driver, but I doubt that would go in 2.0.31, there just hasn't been enough feedback on that driver yet.
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