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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:18:08 -0800
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@freebsd.org>, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r215132 - head/sys/dev/nfe
Message-ID:  <20101111211808.GE17566@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimjUgNLsvqzGNn7SEHZ_=7oF-BJyG2jS7bezy55@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201011111808.oABI8olX079570@svn.freebsd.org> <20101111183409.GA1011@pluto.vnode.local> <20101111191900.GC17566@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <AANLkTimjUgNLsvqzGNn7SEHZ_=7oF-BJyG2jS7bezy55@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:56:43AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:19, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:34:09PM +0100, Joel Dahl wrote:
> >> On 11-11-2010 18:08, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> >> > Author: yongari
> >> > Date: Thu Nov 11 18:08:50 2010
> >> > New Revision: 215132
> >> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215132
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> >> > ? Add basic WOL support for MCP ethernet controllers. It seems the
> >> > ? controller does not perform automatic switching from 1000Mbps link
> >> > ? to 10/100Mbps link when WOL is activated. Implement establishing
> >> > ? 10/100Mps link with auto-negotiation in driver. Link status change
> >> > ? handler was modified to remove taskqueue based approach since driver
> >> > ? now needs synchronous handling for link establishment.
> >>
> >> Somewhat unrelated but this commit reminds me of something: why do we still
> >> keep the nve driver? ?I thought nfe was written as a replacement years ago?
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps to address edge cases not covered by nfe(4)?
> > Personally I don't know any of them.
> 
> amd64/115126 ?
> 
> Its even assigned to you.
> 

Yes, but I think this has nothing to do with the subject.
I think MCP controllers have a silicon bug that does not generate
TX completion interrupts under certain conditions/controller models.
The PR indicates what was really happened which also indicates
possible silicon bug. nve(4) also seems to have some workaround for
that but I wanted to verify it since we don't know what binary blob
did during controller initialization. The message just shows
informational message and does not reset controller so I think that
edge case is already handled by nfe(4).



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