On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:14 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:25:50PM +0900, Ishizaki Kou wrote: > > > > Following are the changes. > > -This patch enables auto-negotiation. > > -Loading firmware is done when spidernet_open() is called. > > -And this patch adds other several small changes for Celleb. > > -This patch is not tested on CellBlade. > > I just tested this, and it does not work. Jim Lewis is gone > until the new year. However, as he was leaving, he grumbled something > about how autonegotiation simply won't work on the spider. > (I didn't think to ask about the details). Perhaps he'll > look at his email soon?
Duh ? Autoneg is completely local to the PHY. It will not work on the Cell blade because it's using a fiber link though, thus we probably need to disable this code when running on a fiber link. > I've been trying to figure out how to modify the patch to make it > work anyway, but so far, no success. > > Basically, in genmii_poll_link(), > status = phy_read(phy, MII_BMSR); > status & BMSR_LSTATUS will always be zero. > > So I tried ignoring this value, and calling setup_forced() > However, this still doesn't get the thing working. > I am somewhat at a loss to see why right now, since > I don't see what may be causing this. I can have a look, most of the code was borrowed from sungem and I wrote the MII code for it :-) Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
