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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:07:09 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sk if_sk.c if_skreg.h
Message-ID:  <20060428040709.GB14964@cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <1146195791.40894.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <200604280317.k3S3Hb3L017882@repoman.freebsd.org> <1146195791.40894.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:43:11PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
 > On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 03:17 +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
 > > sobomax     2006-04-28 03:17:37 UTC
 > > 
 > >   FreeBSD src repository
 > > 
 > >   Modified files:
 > >     sys/dev/sk           if_sk.c if_skreg.h 
 > >   Log:
 > >   Add some incomplete support for Marvell Yukon EC controllers based on
 > >   OpenBSD changes. With these changes, PHY part of the driver becomes
 > >   functional (it senses media changes and negotiates speed just fine),
 > >   previously it just hang with no PHY message, but no data goes through
 > >   interface (error message is "can not stop transfer of Tx/Rx descriptor).
 > >   
 > >   Hopefully somebody with more clue/free time will be able to pick up
 > >   after me.
 > 
 > Maxim, I patched if_sk in a similar fashion, and got the same errors you
 > did.  I took a look at the Linux sky2 driver which works with the
 > MacBook Yukon-II, and the Yukon-II chipset is very different from the
 > Yukon.
 > 

Indeed, Yukon II is very different from Yukon I and personally I think it
need seperate driver instead of sk(4). However I don't have Yukon II
hardware and lack of documentation makes me hard to write the
driver.

 > However, I did find that the SysKonnect-provided Yukon-II driver works
 > quite well (see
 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-January/009543.html).  Building the driver was easy.  I just untarred the source to /usr/src/sys/dev/myk, and did a make all.  With this driver, I was able to get the wired ethernet in the MacBook to pass traffic.
 > 

Hmm, I've tried that too but it didn't even detect link and panicked
system(Asus P4P800, Yukon I) when I enable jumbo frame. :-(

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



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