On May 16, 2007, at 3:53 AM, Auke Kok wrote:
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)
If this is really on need on pseries HW this should be #ifdef
CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES. No reason to force this on all 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);
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