Our 82571 (first PCI-E hardware) causes P-Series hardware to throw issues. Disabling PCI-E completion timeouts in our NIC resolves the issue.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Wen Xiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c index 49be393..830d851 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -819,6 +819,16 @@ e1000_reset(struct e1000_adapter *adapter) E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, CTRL, ctrl); } +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC) +#define E1000_GCR_DISABLE_TIMEOUT_MECHANISM 0x80000000 + if (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_82571) { + /* work around pSeries hardware by disabling timeouts */ + u32 gcr = E1000_READ_REG(&adapter->hw, E1000_GCR); + gcr |= E1000_GCR_DISABLE_TIMEOUT_MECHANISM; + E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, E1000_GCR, gcr); + } +#endif + /* Enable h/w to recognize an 802.1Q VLAN Ethernet packet */ E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, VET, ETHERNET_IEEE_VLAN_TYPE); - 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