RE: Problems with Intel e100 driver on new MIPS port, was: Advice needed WRT very slow nfs in new port...

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, David Daney wrote:
> > It seems that it is a memory consistancy problem of some sort.  By 
> > placing wbflush() after all writes to NIC registers it works.  This 
> > leads me to think that either the driver is buggy WRT processors that 
> > have write-back queues or my implementation (the default implementation) 
> > of writeb() and friends is buggy on this processor.  Now it could be 
> > that all that is needed is wmb() before some of the register writes, but 
> > since on my processor they both do the same thing (sync) it is hard to 
> > tell.
> 
>  Most likely that code has only been ever used on i386 systems (who'd want 
> to use such a weird Ethernet chip elsewhere?), so don't expect it to be 
> terribly sane.

The e100 is a quite popular card, so I'd expect it to be in use on many
platforms.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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