Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:36:05 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Frank Behrens <frank@pinky.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: call for sk(4) testers Message-ID: <20060320013605.GA75153@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <200603171426.k2HEQJ9L085859@pinky.frank-behrens.de> References: <200603171426.k2HEQJ9L085859@pinky.frank-behrens.de>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:26:14PM +0100, Frank Behrens wrote: > On Thu Jan 12 03:33:19 PST 2006 Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > Here is modified sk(4) that makes use of bus_dma(9). It was lightly > > tested on sparc64(SMP)/i386(SMP). > > ... > > You can get latest sk(4) driver from the following URL. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/if_sk.c > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/if_skreg.h > > ... > > I'd like to hear any success/failure reports. If you have a NIC that > > is supported by sk(4) please give it a try and let me know the result. > > Here my short status report: > > History: In November 2004 I bought a new motherboard with > Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)/<Marvell 88E1000 > Gigabit PHY, but this was unusable under FreeBSD 5.3. A short time > later an errata notice was created for this release. So I used this > NIC for slow DSL connection only. > > Some weeks ago I changed my LAN architecture, I wanted to use the 1GB > NIC with sk0 and thought the OS has now (6.0) working drivers. But > immediately I has some locks and "sk0 watchdog timeouts". So I tried > the mentioned drivers. > > The result is - very good. I'm using the driver from the web site > MD5 (if_sk.c) = 2ce9867445df8e1bfe6075597a0de87c > MD5 (if_skreg.h) = c8b572ae9fa3b536af86dff07a5c75e9 > with 6.1-PRERELEASE-200602270917 i386 > and had no problems until now. > > Thanks for this work, it seems to be a real improvement. > Thanks for your report. If you find any unusual things related with sk(4) please let me know. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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