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SubjectRe: Sun GEM card looses TX on x86 32bit PCI
Just an FYI, this does resolve the problem on sparc as well.

Regards,

Aaron

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Aaron Sethman wrote:

> I am having the same problem on sparc. I will try the patch myself and
> let you know if it helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron
>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > From: Beezly <beezly@beezly.org.uk>
> > Date: 11 Mar 2002 22:51:42 +0000
> >
> > Ok, I've been fiddling around with the driver tonight and have managed
> > to get a little further by forcing the driver to do a full reset of the
> > chip when the RX buffer over flows. I achieved this by sticking a return
> > 1; at the top of gem_rxmac_reset().
> >
> > I'm guessing this isn't an "optimal" reset for the situation but so far
> > it's having /reasonable/ results (i.e. I don't have to bring the
> > interface up and down every 30 seconds!).
> > ...
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > I'll follow up on this and figure out why my RX reset code
> > isn't working after I finish up some 2.5.x work.
> >
> > But looking quickly I think I see what is wrong. Please give
> > this a try (and remember to remove your hacks before testing
> > this :-):
> >
> > --- drivers/net/sungem.c.~1~ Mon Mar 11 04:24:13 2002
> > +++ drivers/net/sungem.c Tue Mar 12 09:30:38 2002
> > @@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ static int gem_rxmac_reset(struct gem *g
> >
> > rxd->status_word = cpu_to_le64(RXDCTRL_FRESH(gp));
> > }
> > + gp->rx_new = gp->rx_old = 0;
> >
> > /* Now we must reprogram the rest of RX unit. */
> > desc_dma = (u64) gp->gblock_dvma;
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