PCN driver broken (was: Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551)

2003-03-04 Thread Dexter McNeil
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:09:13PM -0800, Bill Paul wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > Yes, it's me. I'm still alive. > > It's great to hear that one of the most talented FreeBSD hackers is back > > in business :) > > > > Does this means that you can afford some time to investigate the problems > > rega

Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-27 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > I also modified the input handling so that it no longer uses the > ng_ether_input_p hook. Now that FreeBSD 5.x has an ifp->if_input vector, > it's not necessary to abuse this hook anymore. This avoids a collision > with the ng_ether module, which is what was supposed to be using this > ho

Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-26 Thread Bill Paul
> I think my problem is not that hard. This bug only occurs when you are > using CURRENT (or 5.0 RELEASE) from (I think) the point where BPF changed. Actually, there's something else than changed. The ng_fec module tries to set ifp->if_output to ng_fec_output() so that it can do some output proce

Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-26 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > I can't easily drop everything and slap together a test setup with > exactly the right software and hardware I need to debug everyone's > particular problem. That's clear. > ("This bug only occurs in -CURRENT as of 30 seconds ago and on an > UltraSPARC 10 with 16 if_dc interfaces and I n

Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Paul
> Hello, > > > Yes, it's me. I'm still alive. > It's great to hear that one of the most talented FreeBSD hackers is back > in business :) > > Does this means that you can afford some time to investigate the problems > regarding your old software? Not unless it's something I can fix using easily

Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-25 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > Yes, it's me. I'm still alive. It's great to hear that one of the most talented FreeBSD hackers is back in business :) Does this means that you can afford some time to investigate the problems regarding your old software? I mean ng_fec primarily, because I couldn't get help in the past

Re: Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Paul
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:13:42 -0800 (PST), in sentex.lists.freebsd.current > you wrote: > >be reliable, nevermind pleasant to look at. I only have access to > >an 82550 card, so I don't know if this is fixed in the 82551 or not. > > Hi, > Can you tell reliably from the dmesg which type one has ?

Checksum offload support for Intel 82550/82551

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Paul
Yes, it's me. I'm still alive. And thanks to Wind River, I now know more about the Intel 8255x ethernet chipset than I ever really wanted to. Recently, I even learned how to enable checksum offload support for the 82550 and 82551 chips, and I decided it would be a good idea to add support for this