On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:14:49AM +0100, Richard Mortimer wrote: > Richard Mortimer writes: > > Diff below. Hope this is useful. > > > > Richard > > > > P.S. Sorry for slow turnaround. I had a few day job issues to sort out > > :-( > > > > Jeff Garzik writes: > > > Here is the patch I just checked in, which fixes some of the easier > > > issues. If you could diff against this, that would be great. > > Ok, > > We may be able to scrap the dmfe.c idea and keep with tulip. I did a > bit of looking into why I was seeing pci errors with the tulip > driver. After a bit of scratching around and a bit of a helpful > suggestion from a colleague it seems that the dm9102a chip has a bit > of a problem with Memory Read Multiple pci transactions (That is CSR0 > bit 21). If the MRM bit is cleared the pci errors go away and the chip > starts to act a bit more reasonably.
This sounds an awful lot like the problems I am having with tulip on my g4, so it may not be an X1 issue. I had to back down to a version from around 2.4.[34]. Maybe you could try copying the tulip directory from that kernel version to 2.4.7, apply your patch and see how that works? Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
