From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:39:04 -0500 Message-ID: <50B6B3D2-CE7F-459F-AF5E-C7D21821EF40@kernel.crashing.org> References: <20080429155333.GC28166@polina.dev.rtsoft.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org To: Anton Vorontsov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080429155333.GC28166@polina.dev.rtsoft.ru> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+glppd-linuxppc64-dev=m.gmane.org@ozlabs.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > As of current mainline tree, TULIP driver is unusable on MPC8610HPCD > boards. There is a patch[1] floating around (and also included in the > BSP), which tries to heal the situation, though the ethernet is still > unusable. Practically it takes ages to mount NFS filesystem: > > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). > Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k init > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK > nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying > > So, instead of trying to add uli526x functionality into TULIP driver > (which is already bloated enough), I fixed existing ULI526X driver > and now it works perfectly well here. > > [1] http://www.bitshrine.org/gpp/0024-MPC8610-ETH-Lyra-native-ethernet.txt > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov > --- applied. - k