From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Snook Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] atlx: add atl2 support Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:32:12 -0400 Message-ID: <48C6186C.4010600@redhat.com> References: <20080909061247.GA17834@file.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jcliburn@gmail.com To: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, atl2-test@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:43888 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751584AbYIIGhL (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 02:37:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080909061247.GA17834@file.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chris Snook wrote: > This patchset adds support for atl2 hardware to the atlx codebase. It is > functionally very similar to the out-of-tree 2.0.4 version that many distros > have been shipping for a few months, though it adds a fix from Atheros to fix > the problem of device resets under heavy bidirectional load. > > The code needs a lot of janitorial work, and there's a lot of low-hanging fruit > for merging similar atl1 code into the shared atlx code, but I think that work > will go much faster once this is in-tree. The driver is known to work well for > laptop and desktop use. The only major bugs are device initialization problems > that manifest themselves immediately and obviously (the NIC doesn't work) with > certain motherboards. > > Please consider this for the 2.6.28 merge window. > > -- Chris Forgot to mention, this has been tested with no problems on an EeePC 701 with the 2.6.26 kernel. Some x86_64 and SMP testing would be nice, but this is based heavily on the atl1 code, which works fine with x86_64 and SMP. -- Chris