Hello,
This will be the last post from me on this, at least for a while, out of my
depth with this stuff.
I have Linus' tree up and running with patches recommended by Sarah.
"1. Disable scatter-gather for the ax88179_178a driver when it's under an
xHCI host.
2. Revert the following commits
An update, iommu=pt made no difference in the end the system still came down
eventually.
So i've started from scratch.
Cloned linus' tree
merged "for-usb-linus-3.14" from the xhci tree
applied the latest patch I saw from david on the list:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg101747.htm
From: Sarah Sharp
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:48:27PM +, David Laight wrote:
> > I've decided to forward this to the list.
> > If you read further down he says that my patch makes the operation
> > of the ax88179_178a stable - once the system has recognised it properly.
>
> I don't understand
It looks like the issue with being unable to get the device to work at all is
limited to the Asmedia controller.
I plugged a VL800-Q8 based pcie card in and got 117MB/s when sending and
receiving with scp. This is with kernel 3.12.9
I guess it's possible that the ax88179 never worked with the
[Please don't drop Cc'ed people.]
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:29:33AM +1100, renev...@internode.on.net wrote:
> The patch did prevent the whole system from crashing but I have to unplug and
> plug something like 20 times to get it not to spit out those error messages.
>
> Even once it is up, it d
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:48:27PM +, David Laight wrote:
> I've decided to forward this to the list.
> If you read further down he says that my patch makes the operation
> of the ax88179_178a stable - once the system has recognised it properly.
I don't understand why your patch helped. This
The patch did prevent the whole system from crashing but I have to unplug and
plug something like 20 times to get it not to spit out those error messages.
Even once it is up, it doesn't operate at full gigabit speed and there is
something funky going on. When sending via scp it maxed out at 36MB
