What revision of the CPU do you have?? I know that upto rev C half duplex has a problem with the cpu and only REV C silicon works if I am not mistaken, there is an errata on IBM's website about this
Daren -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Surovegin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2004 03:02 To: Hiroshi DOYU Cc: Linux PPC Embedded Subject: Re: [BUG] IBM440GX works too slow under nfsroot On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:38:59AM +0900, Hiroshi DOYU wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:33:20 -0700 > Eugene Surovegin <ebs at ebshome.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:57:33AM +0900, Hiroshi DOYU wrote: > > > Now I am strugging with booting vanilla(2.4.2x) on ibm440gx and > > > I could succeed to boot it but, after nfs mounted, it's behavior > > > seems too slow. I guess, it looks like the system is running > > > half duplex. > > > > Yeah, driver thinks it's connected to 10Mb hub. How the board is > > actualy connected to the network? > > 10Mb hub. > Wow, I really had to spend some time to find such ancient hw :). I'll try 2.4.27 with this hub during next couple of days (I'm a little busy right now) and let you know. I suspect nobody really tested EMAC driver in 10Mb HDX mode. You can also bug Matt Porter, maybe he'll help you sooner :). -- Eugene _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
