From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sungem: PHY updates & pause fixes
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:26:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070102.212605.15263907.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1167801614.6165.117.camel@localhost.localdomain>
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:20:14 +1100
> Now, I cross-over with a TG3 and I get:
>
> - I advertise 0x5e1 (hopefully same value)
> - I read in LPA 0xc5e1 from the TG3
> (and that other register tells me Rx and Tx pause can be enabled).
Does flow control get enabled with the TG3 on these
switches? Just curious.
> > You should try to use flow control, even slower than 1000Mbit links.
>
> Sorry, not sure I parse ;-) You mean allowing pause on 10 and 100 as
> well ? I sure can, it's easy to fix.
That's correct.
> > That's the only problem I can see, would you mind fixing that and
> > I'll put your change into my net-2.6 tree and perhaps play around
> > with PAUSE on my switches here?
>
> Sure will do.
Thanks a lot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-03 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-03 4:58 [PATCH] sungem: PHY updates & pause fixes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 5:11 ` David Miller
2007-01-03 5:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 5:26 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-01-03 5:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-03 6:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-04 2:55 ` David Miller
2007-01-04 20:06 ` Eric Lemoine
2007-01-04 20:27 ` David Miller
2007-01-04 20:57 ` Eric Lemoine
2007-01-04 21:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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