From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Realtek 8110S/8169S driver.
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:50:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44458513ec2fcb7b83e0ad92ef33db3e@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc09ed28a155a3434f75a105cf8634dc@plan9.ucalgary.ca>
On Thu Dec 16 17:43:54 EST 2004, mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote:
> > /sys/src/9/pc/ether8169.c on sources is a driver for the Realtek 8110S/8169S
> > Gigabit chips, we have a motherboard with one. I also did the mangling to make
> > it work in 9load, but it is inexplicably slow to load a kernel. If anyone
> > has one of these chips and would like to try to figure out the problem let me
> > know.
> >
> > --jim
>
> in the linuxbios case slowness to load the kernel from 9load has
> always been caused by incorrect interrupt setup...
>
> andrey
The card is getting real interrupts, and it looks to me like they are
correctly sequenced, i.e. when loading a kernel i see a loop of
send a request for a block from the tftp server
transmission complete interrupt
receive interrupt
plonk the received packet in the appropriate place
--jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-16 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 21:29 jmk
2004-12-16 22:43 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-12-16 22:50 ` jmk [this message]
2004-12-16 22:59 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-16 23:05 ` jmk
2004-12-21 15:17 ` jmk
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