From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: sky2 problem on powerpc Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:15:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20060904211531.307bbd7f@localhost.localdomain> References: <1157347462.22705.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1157354470.22705.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1157355748.22705.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060904204148.6f9749b3@localhost.localdomain> <1157428072.22705.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:17030 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965201AbWIEQb0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:31:26 -0400 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <1157428072.22705.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:47:52 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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 >