Matty wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Matty wrote:
>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I was reading through the list of drivers on the long river project page:
>>>
>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/projects/longriver/nic_driver_list/
>>>
>>> and was curious what will occur with the stage 2 drivers? Will the
>>> networking community add these drivers to opensolaris at some point
>>> in time, or are they just there for reference? The project
>>> documentation is a little light, so I thought I would ask on the
>>> appropriate lists.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - Ryan
>>>
>>>
>> The first of those, "afe", is already integrated in nv73. (Also "mxfe",
>> which isn't on that list.) I believe "vfe" and "sfe" are currently in
>> test, in anticipation of being putback to nv75 or thereabouts.
>>
>> I'm going to look at a few of the others as well.
>>
>
> Thanks Garrett! Does anyone happen to know what the FMA development
> will include? I can't seem to find anything related to FMA on the
> project page, so hopefully the network driver developers can comment.
>
FMA support is missing from these drivers. I may add it later... I'm
told that new projects are supposed to include FMA support, yet I didn't
learn of this until after final RTI/putback.
For my drivers, I'll probably add FMA handling for the PCI error
conditions (master and target abort, parity errors) as well as perhaps a
few other errors that the chip can report but which really should never
occur.
The Networking community needs to solidify this some more as well...
For example, seeing the collision counter increase in kstats, when in
full-duplex, is almost certainly the sign of a misconfigured link....
-- Garrett
> Thanks again for the update,
> - Ryan
>
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