Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-23 Thread Chris Johns
On 16/03/2014 8:24 am, Peter Dufault wrote: On Mar 15, 2014, at 15:55 , Joel Sherrill mailto:joel.sherr...@oarcorp.com>> wrote: I don't know your RAM or requirements situation but the new TCP/IP stack may also be an option. But if staying with the old stack, updating the driver may be an easi

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-17 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 2014-03-17 12:04, Peter Dufault wrote: [dufault@litho9099 rtems-libbsd]$ ls freebsd/sys/dev/smc if_smc.c if_smcreg.h if_smcvar.h [dufault@litho9099 rtems-libbsd]$ This is the new stack, correct? That driver is what I was thinking of looking at porting to the old stack. I will spend some

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-17 Thread Peter Dufault
On Mar 17, 2014, at 03:57 , Sebastian Huber wrote: > I cannot say much to the SMC9. The new network stack however will not > improve the performance in its current state. > > On a MPC5674F running at 264MHz we had approx. 5MByte/second upstream and > downstream with the SMSC LAN9218i usi

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-17 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 2014-03-16 20:08, Peter Dufault wrote: On Mar 15, 2014, at 18:01 , Joel Sherrill mailto:joel.sherr...@oarcorp.com>> wrote: There are three pieces and I may have confused you. + current stack in tree + some add on drivers with porting kit + new dual mode stack I do not think there is an sm

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-16 Thread Peter Dufault
On Mar 15, 2014, at 18:01 , Joel Sherrill wrote: > There are three pieces and I may have confused you. > > + current stack in tree > + some add on drivers with porting kit > + new dual mode stack > > I do not think there is an smc driver in the add on kit. I just thought if > you decided to

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-15 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Mar 15, 2014 4:23 PM, Peter Dufault wrote: > > > On Mar 15, 2014, at 15:55 , Joel Sherrill wrote: > >> I don't know your RAM or requirements situation but the new TCP/IP stack may >> also be an option. >> >> But if staying with the old stack, updating the driver may be an easier >> option.

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-15 Thread Peter Dufault
On Mar 15, 2014, at 15:55 , Joel Sherrill wrote: > I don't know your RAM or requirements situation but the new TCP/IP stack may > also be an option. > > But if staying with the old stack, updating the driver may be an easier > option. There is a collection of newer drivers for the current sta

Re: SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-15 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Mar 15, 2014 1:39 PM, Peter Dufault wrote: > > I'm including you directly, Daniel, since you've done some recent patches for > the SMC9 driver on the Sparc. That's the only place I think it's used > other than on the Phytec MPC5554. If anyone else is using it then I'd love > to know.

SMC91111 performance and copyright

2014-03-15 Thread Peter Dufault
I'm including you directly, Daniel, since you've done some recent patches for the SMC9 driver on the Sparc. That's the only place I think it's used other than on the Phytec MPC5554. If anyone else is using it then I'd love to know. The SMC9 performance on the Phytec Phycore board is h