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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: sky2 still badly broken
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:25:17 -0700
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On Thu, 03 May 2012 21:36:50 +0200
Niccol=F2 Belli <darkbasic@linuxsystems.it> wrote:

> Il 03/05/2012 17:23, Stephen Hemminger ha scritto:
> > The receiver on some versions of the chip can't keep up with full s=
peed
> > of 1G bit/sec. The receive  FIFO has hardware issues, and since I d=
on't
> > work for Marvell, working around the problem is guesswork.
>=20
> Just one question: if that is true why don't I have any problem with =
a=20
> point to point gigabit link? I did transfer 3GB from ram to ram (ramf=
s)=20
> at 100+MB/s without any issue in a point to point setup, as soon as I=
=20
> attach it to the switch I have problems (very low transfer rate and t=
ons=20
> of rx errors).

I don't know but the PHY interaction is different with auto-crossover.