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Date:      Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:24:05 -0700
From:      YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Andrey Smagin <samspeed@mail.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AX88772A AX88772B chipset differences?
Message-ID:  <20110720202405.GB11521@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1QjcjO-0000Ow-00.samspeed-mail-ru@f43.mail.ru>
References:  <E1QcEjo-0005Zh-00.samspeed-mail-ru@f287.mail.ru> <20110630171914.GA12124@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20110713000541.GC7564@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <E1QjcjO-0000Ow-00.samspeed-mail-ru@f43.mail.ru>

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46:54PM +0400, Andrey Smagin wrote:
> 
> 13 июля 2011, 04:07 от YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:19:14AM -0700, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:44:48PM +0400, Andrey Smagin wrote:
> > > > I have card based on AX88772B. I tried patch axe driver for vendor and
> > device IDs. card detected, set up link, but no data received. What else need
> > for patch in  this driver ? Anybody have datasheet ?
> > > 
> > > ASIX requires a login account to get the data sheet so it's not
> > > publicly available to open source developers.
> > > AFAIK the difference between AX88772A and AX88772B is IPv4/IPv6
> > > checksum offloading support of AX88772B. The introduction of
> > > checksum offloading means they might have changed its RX header
> > > format which in turn makes current RX handler to not work.  The
> > > other difference would be more advanced power saving used in
> > > AX8877B but it wouldn't be much difference to axe(4) driver once
> > > PHY is correctly woken in initialization phase.
> > > Could you show me your diff and verbose boot output to know PHY
> > > model and EEPROM data?
> > 
> > I have a minimal patch for AX88772B. It requires more work to
> > support TX/RX checksum offloading, flow-control and power saving
> > but attached patch would be enough for most cases.
> > Let me know whether it works or not.
>  
> Great thanx !!!  It work but I not tested under heavy load. Only ping and some Mbytes via nfs. 
> 

Thanks for testing. The patch was already committed to 
HEAD(r224020). I'm implementing TX/RX checksum offloading and
flow-control and that feature would be available in near future.

Thanks.



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