From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from televes.com (unknown [212.163.42.137]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 963152BDA2 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:57:10 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <51DB8827D393D411BB69003048003F46FDCF2B@tvesntr.televes.com> From: Bastos Fernandez Alexandre To: 'Dan Malek' Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:54:52 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "'linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org'" Subject: RE: Bridge, promiscous mode andCPM2 List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , So, Is this patch available? Will it be available soon or applied to any ppc kernel tree? This is in my to-do list for the near future, so it would be very helpful if this were already done. Best regards, Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Malek [SMTP:dan@embeddededge.com] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 5:40 PM > To: Rune Torgersen > Cc: alebas@televes.com; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org > Subject: Re: Bridge, promiscous mode andCPM2 > > > On Oct 8, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Rune Torgersen wrote: > > > Assuming CPM2 => 82xx or 85xx CPU. > > Yes. > > > I have no idea who or why that early return was put in, > > but it does disable multicast and promiscous mode > > on the FCC ethernets. > > Because I never wrote (or lifted from somewhere else) > the function to run the CRC generator for creating the > multicast filters (the CPM1 on 8xx has hardware support > for this). I left the function there as a place holder to get > promiscuous mode, and someone did finish that function. > It should be in one of the several kernel source trees...... > If not, I'll try to find the patch and do it again. > > > -- Dan