So, Is this patch available? Will it be available soon or applied to any ppc kernel tree? This is in my to-do list for the near future, so it would be very helpful if this were already done.
Best regards, Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Malek [SMTP:dan at embeddededge.com] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 5:40 PM > To: Rune Torgersen > Cc: alebas at televes.com; linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > Subject: Re: Bridge, promiscous mode andCPM2 > > > On Oct 8, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Rune Torgersen wrote: > > > Assuming CPM2 => 82xx or 85xx CPU. > > Yes. > > > I have no idea who or why that early return was put in, > > but it does disable multicast and promiscous mode > > on the FCC ethernets. > > Because I never wrote (or lifted from somewhere else) > the function to run the CRC generator for creating the > multicast filters (the CPM1 on 8xx has hardware support > for this). I left the function there as a place holder to get > promiscuous mode, and someone did finish that function. > It should be in one of the several kernel source trees...... > If not, I'll try to find the patch and do it again. > > > -- Dan
