From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sky2 problem on powerpc
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:15:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060904211531.307bbd7f@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157428072.22705.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:47:52 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > It may not need any swapping, it is hard to tell what the hardware
> > will do without experimentation.
>
> Yes... did you have a chance to test the vlan stuff on LE machines
> (x86) ? did it work with the BE swapping you were doing ? I've
> purposedly removed in my patches the hardware side swapping of the
> descriptors, as I explained, thus making the hardware react the same on
> ppc and x86. Thus we need the exact same swapping macros on both
> platforms).
Last time I checked it worked. Private cable simulating VLAN
from other Linux card.
> I know pretty much nothing about vlan so I'm not too much about trying
> to check that right now :)
>
> Also, there is still the hw checksum issue .... I need to verify what's
> up there, it might be a swapping problem as well... or not. Can you send
> me your latest patch set so I can work from there ?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-04 5:24 sky2 problem on powerpc Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-04 7:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-04 7:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-04 21:05 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-04 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-05 3:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-05 3:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-05 4:15 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-09-05 21:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-05 21:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-05 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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