Hi Thierry, > Thank you for the link. I will give it a look this week-end and will > go back to you during the next week. Hopefully, joining our efforts, > we should manage to get the cards wortking.
Excellent! It will be good to have more work/hardware when it comes to these Realtek chips. Overtime, I will be updating the linked file of any bugs/cleanups I find, which I have also now moved to http://oneiri.one/9front/ether8169.patch for the time being. (One problem I have encountered is losing Rx after unplugging the cable for a couple of seconds, but this looks well evidenced in commits relating to the setting of something called "aldps", which I'll try to get going tonight.) > From a cursory look, there are two distinct uses: one mask to match a > macver, and another mask to select a revision, with both setting > divergent things. In our present drivers, it seems the two cases are > more or less mixed---once again: I'm just starting to discover the > whole thing, so I may be wrong. Yes this is right, and we do mix them. We (like Linux), are just making it so that the Mac version _and_ the revision ID identify the card (Macv |= RevID); thus having the mask of 0x[7F]CF000000 lets us differentiate between tested cards by switching on Macv[0-9]+, like the two RTL8125D versions (as opposed to sub-switching elsewhere in the code for every time we test for a 8125D). > Yes, the 8125 specially has a bunch of hard coded commands, given by > Realtek, and no explanations. This could have something to do with the > mixed support for 10Mb, 100Mb, 1Gb and 2.5Gb. But when it comes to > explanations, there are almost none... Yes :). This is going to be fun. > I will get back to you after doing some work on the stuff. I wish you good fortune. Thank you, Aidan ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T832e366730c74bfa-Mbc3c254b625811711fd897d7 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
