From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [sky2, solved] transmit timeouts and firmware update... Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:22:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20080825152206.2d554cf7@speedy> References: <6278d2220808250742r4a2b377al13a516fa0c6b53a9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Netdev , Linux Networking , Daniel J Blueman To: Krzysztof Oledzki Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:03:25 +0200 (CEST) Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > I (and a lot of other users) have been experiencing the frequent sky2 > > transmit timeout problem [1] (on 88E8053/Yukon2 EC gig hardware); this > > is a result of the embedded NIC controller locking up, and I've found > > that updating the firmware addresses this issue. I'm still seeing a > > previous and different issue [2] from time to time though (silicon > > bug?). > > Thanks for the info. I've been dealing with this problem for some long > time, hopefully sky driver from the latest kernels is able to recover > from such hangs, so it is not that critical problem now. > > > Marvell shipping broken firmware is completely unpublicised or > > acknowledged, however updated firmware is available through your > > motherboard vendor, so all hope it not lost after all... > > Unfortunately not through all vendors. :( Or maybe not *yet*? > > > My 8053/EC is using firmware 2.2 (previously 1.9) - you can check in > > DOS with 'yukondg.exe' from > > http://www.marvell.com/drivers/files/yukondg_v6.53.4.3.zip . > > Stephen, is it possible for sky2 driver to check and print the > firmware version? It is possible to dump and program eeprom from linux, and the version maybe buried in the VPD, but some hardware has non-functional VPD.