From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 04:06:08 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 7A60B1065670 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from po-out-1718.google.com (po-out-1718.google.com [72.14.252.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8E98FC1D for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: by po-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id y22so5238207pof.3 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=lPo/46lONyvb4ayN4JUfg0nYLkxgyBiJh48PDLSdVi8=; b=kj8JDlLpySkoGbb+BBq1R3cvt/cjbCeHBqgBRpCdQcG8OvlD5owarBjO71KMt163h5OytAnbvdfzO+KpowobHP5Sp00KY8kyxeko+GNq9yDC5E9yU20BR0i7Pghaa/egYXFkuxGSa4i6rAEaxmKhEnpsRqE4Im+Bquq1I8LxzvE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=xXj8LQD0zyj8NvP4i8lh90TRxn7wBr6Yu4u6Il9RtOuXO9QLpm5Q7TLsDWD84twUWh+vMxyqS4USJAXcGDjYs+fuFwS4thsOZavWSMAPTPP7Bi20K7yXSWeOizoO8cbnx7o6yAGTM5d9btZhIYHhD2BiXgS/8ii+MReUrZe8d8U= Received: by 10.110.41.17 with SMTP id o17mr2675534tio.29.1205381167066; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.5.3 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5635aa0d0803122106x232fd34tf3e352f0af0477cb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:06:07 -0400 From: "Outback Dingo" To: pyunyh@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20080313034321.GG16972@cdnetworks.co.kr> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080310043412.GA4425@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080310073150.GC4425@cdnetworks.co.kr> <20080313034321.GG16972@cdnetworks.co.kr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers : age(4), Attansic/Atheros L1 gigabit ethernet controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:06:08 -0000 This is only for the L1 chipset right, and it does not function for th L2 chips right? is it be possible to function on the L2 10/100 chip also ? On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:31:50PM +0900, To freebsd-current@FreeBSD.orgwrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:34:12PM +0900, To > freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Due to high pressure from FreeBSD user community to get a working > > > driver for Attansic/Atheros L1 giagabit ethernet I had changed > > > priorities in my TODO list. I had spent several weeks to write > > > this driver and I managed to get a working driver. From my very > > > limited testing the driver seems to work as expected. > > > > > > ATM the performance is horrible so there must be mis-programmed > > > registers or incorrectly configured parameters. Due to the > > > existence several variants of L1 hardware and lack of publicly > > > available documentation I'd like to know how many variants are > > > supported by this driver. L1 gigabit ethernet controller is > > > frequently found in ASUS motherboard. Note, it seems that there are > > > other variants of hardware as known as L2(Fast ethernet) and newer > > > gigabit ethernet(AR81xx) from Atheros. These are not supported by > > > this driver and they require a seperate driver. The following > > > hardware features are supported by age(4). > > > > > > - TCP Segmentation Offload. > > > - Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping. > > > - TCP/UDP checksum offload. > > > - Interrupt moderation. > > > - Hardware statistics counter support. > > > - Jumbo frame support. > > > - WOL support. > > > > > > As I said, I already know poor performance issue of age(4) but I'm > > > more interested in getting a stable driver. If you're owner of L1 > > > gigabit ethernet controller please give it spin and let me know > > > how it goes on your system. > > > > > > Install: > > > o Get age(4) jumbo diff at the following URL. The diff was > > > generated against HEAD but I guess it would also apply to RELENG_7 > > > and 7.0-RELEASE. > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.HEAD.diff > > > > For 7.0-RELEASE, use the following URL. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.7.0R.diff > > > > It seems that previous version have a bug in getting ethernet > hardware address. To diagnose it I've updated age(4) again and > put updated files to the same URL. > > For CURRENT: > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.HEAD.diff > For RELENG_7/7.0-RELEASE: > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.7.0R.diff > > > > o Patch kernel srouce and rebuild/reboot your kernel. > > > #cd /usr/src > > > #patch -p0 < /path/to/age.HEAD.diff > > > > > > Test: > > > Use age(4) for your normal network activities and report success or > > > any issues you've encountered. The driver may be chatty to ease of > > > debugging. > > > > > -- > Regards, > Pyun YongHyeon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >