Re: Porting pch_pcieqos to 3.2 for Intel EG20T with no MAC

[Darren Hart <darren.hart@intel.com>]

On 01/10/2012 05:58 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> I find myself with a development board with no MAC address for the pch_gbe in
> the Platform Controller Hub EG20T. I've dusted off an old patch and am trying
> to get it working so it can be included upstream.
> 
> I found the phub_util_mac utility on sourceforge which appears to require the
> following patch:
> 
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-extras/plain/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-netbook-2.6.33.2/linux-2.6.34-pch-pcieqos.patch
> 
> I've made the obvious changes to the driver to use unlocked_ioctl as ioctl has
> been removed upstream. With this driver built and installed, the
> topcliff_mac_util command reports no errors and reads the MAC address as:
> 
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> Trying to set it reports no errors either, and the instrumentation suggests it
> is at least trying to write the correct data. Reading back still results in all
> zeros.
> 
> During boot, the pch_gbe driver reports:
> [    2.211233] pch_gbe 0000:02:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> [    2.217271] pch_gbe 0000:02:00.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> [    2.224349] pch_gbe 0000:02:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
> [    2.233388] pch_gbe 0000:02:00.1: Invalid MAC Address
> [    2.238821] pch_gbe 0000:02:00.1: PCI INT A disabled
> [    2.243809] pch_gbe: probe of 0000:02:00.1 failed with error -5
> 
> The patch itself follows, I have attached a rather lengthy log which includes a
> read/write/read cycle demonstrating the write not taking effect.
> 
> Can you shed some light on why this might be the case?

After stumbling around blindly for a bit longer, I ran across the pch_phub
driver, which appears to be intended for the same purpose, but uses a sysfs
interface rather than an ioctl interface with a separate userpsace utility.
Do I have this right?

Enabling this driver doesn't change the above pch_gbe messages which still
include the failed probe of 0000:02:00.1. pch_phub has entries in /sys:

root@(none):/# find /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub/uevent
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub/unbind
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub/bind
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub/new_id
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/pch_phub/remove_id

but no "pch_mac" as I was expecting after reviewing pch_phub.c.

Am I still barking up the wrong tree here?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel