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SubjectRe: Sun GEM PPC32 Bug?
Am 04.02.2011 23:55, schrieb David Miller:
>
> I think we're simply not resetting enough when the RX FIFO overflow
> happens.
>
> Just for fun I checked the OpenBSD GEM driver to see what they do.
> When an overflow occurs, they bump the statistic, record the current
> read and write fifo pointer registers, and schedule a watchdog timer
> for 400ms into the future.
>
> If the watchdog timer sees that the RX FIFO overflow bit is still set
> in the RX status register, and the RX FIFO read and write pointers
> have not changed, it resets the entire chip.
>
> We unconditionally reset the RX MAC when an overflow occurs, that may
> simply not be enough to unwedge this thing.
>
Is there a special Kernel parameter (sysctl.conf), that makes it
possible to use the Network. So how it is now I can´t work with it. What
can I do at the moment?
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