From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 30 11:50:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209321065782 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:50:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C328FC13 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so639475rvb.0 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:50:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:date:from :to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=N31eJwtmNTKN2R2inXUclSDsoY7nlevECjrj7jy0E4c=; b=S1Dy+0JK7SiH2/wYQSHJAgfbZZp1OeT8z6zt+eXumhzTkpg2AY8sDw7lKa4UNivzHz CBRRgPCHWikuF2LytGfAOJggSN47l+MUboHj6wrlEvy0L6k02ZexQjT5XfzCJxfSAE7n O8AecxT2SJfuPwsFT/rYVN0jaTTUC/Ui2ZT/o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=gKRIlM+/XIHdlnzqhF9sbU9qvQOcT4ODuzGIoC4lU7pD2tavbp7UO7BcxT6gy0SN4q dGV/SmIxMkP6hPkd+8UycW+nAJ8yV0IvN8qWOy6v5gSnr2t+PQOsLqe+29EWuRWZ2b+r M7/FSUCN3KfrZuE0hUwLHAcVTOo4b9V3Sr20Y= Received: by 10.141.137.16 with SMTP id p16mr5581907rvn.192.1225367448377; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr ([211.53.35.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm3370638rvb.5.2008.10.30.04.50.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (localhost.cdnetworks.co.kr [127.0.0.1]) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id m9UBmkCZ080731 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:48:46 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: (from yongari@localhost) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id m9UBmjsk080730 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:48:45 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:48:45 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20081030114845.GE78796@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <20081030040637.GA78796@cdnetworks.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081030040637.GA78796@cdnetworks.co.kr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: Call for testers: Atheros AR8121(L1E)/AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:50:49 -0000 On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06:37PM +0900, To freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Hi, > > I had been working on writing a driver for Atheros AR8121(L1E), > AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet controllers since Jeremy Chadwick sent > the hardware to me. I think it's feature complete state and time > for more testing for stability or some edge cases. I guess AR81xx > is commonly found on newer Asus EeePC or P5Q series of Asus > motherboard. If you have AR81xx controller would you give it spin > and let me know how it goes? You can get the latest driver at the > following URL. > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_ate.c > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atereg.h > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atevar.h > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/Makefile > or > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/ate.20081030.tar.gz > The driver should build without problems on CURRENT, stable/7. > > ATM the driver supports the following hardware features. > - TSO > - Rx TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload > - VLAN tag insertion/stripping > - Jumbo frame > - WOL > It seems that hardware supports Tx checksum offload but I couldn't > make it work for TCP segments. Only short TCP segments seem to work > so I disabled Tx checksum offload. > Note, the hardware does not support descriptor based DMA on Rx side > so driver have to copy recevied frames to pass them to upper stack > so it will consume a lot of CPU cycles if you push the hardware to > the limit. > As bruffer pointed out the device name chosen conflicts with other driver in tree so I renamed it to ale(4).The URL for the driver is http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile or http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081030.tar.gz Sorry for confusion. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon