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SubjectRe: pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3
Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:14:16PM -0700, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > VMware is working on implementation PCnet 32bit mode in emulation (there
> > > is no such thing now because of no OS except FreeBSD needs it). But
> > > my question is - is there some real benefit in running chip in
> > > 32bit mode?
> >
> > probably not.
> >
> > > so is 32bit mode needed for bigendian ports, or what's reasoning
> > > behind it?
> >
> > I've added 32bit mode for some IBM PowerPC machines. The firmware
> > on this machines setup the chip to DWIO and I haven't found a way
> > to switch it back to WIO.
>
> Current Linux driver switches them to 16bit mode in pcnet_probe1:
>
> pcnet_dwio_reset(); // reset to 16bit mode when in 32bit, ignore in
> 16bit mode
> pcnet_wio_reset(); // device is for sure in 16bit mode, but reset it
> again to
> // get it into known state if we were in 16bit mode
> already
>
> So you should find hardware always in 16bit mode at this point. If it
> does not work, maybe you need to xor PCNET32_WIO_* values with 2 on
> PowerPC...

I'm afraid that's not true.
The above only do a software reset and that doesn't effect the I/O mode.
Only a hardware reset effects the I/O mode.
An because any firmware might changes to 32bit mode after reset (of the whole
system), we need to support both modes.

>
> Best regards,
> Petr Vandrovec
> vandrove@vc.cvut.cz

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