Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Fixes for DP8393X SONIC device emulation

[Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>]

Le 19/01/2020 à 23:59, Finn Thain a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> There are bugs in the emulated dp8393x device that can stop packet
> reception in a Linux/m68k guest (q800 machine).
> 
> With a Linux/mips guest (magnum machine), the driver fails to probe
> the dp8393x device.
> 
> With a NetBSD/arc 5.1 guest (magnum machine), the bugs in the device
> can be fatal to the guest kernel.
> 
> Whilst debugging the device, I found that the receiver algorithm
> differs from the one described in the National Semiconductor
> datasheet.
> 
> This patch series resolves these bugs.
> 
> Note that the mainline Linux sonic driver also has bugs.
> I have fixed the bugs that I know of in a series of patches at,
> https://github.com/fthain/linux/commits/mac68k
> ---
> Changed since v1:
>  - Minor revisions as described in commit logs.
>  - Dropped patches 4/10 and 7/10.
>  - Added 5 new patches.
> 
> Changed since v2:
>  - Minor revisions as described in commit logs.
>  - Dropped patch 13/13.
>  - Added 2 new patches.
> 
> 
> Finn Thain (14):
>   dp8393x: Mask EOL bit from descriptor addresses
>   dp8393x: Always use 32-bit accesses
>   dp8393x: Clean up endianness hacks
>   dp8393x: Have dp8393x_receive() return the packet size
>   dp8393x: Update LLFA and CRDA registers from rx descriptor
>   dp8393x: Clear RRRA command register bit only when appropriate
>   dp8393x: Implement packet size limit and RBAE interrupt
>   dp8393x: Don't clobber packet checksum
>   dp8393x: Use long-word-aligned RRA pointers in 32-bit mode
>   dp8393x: Pad frames to word or long word boundary
>   dp8393x: Clear descriptor in_use field to release packet
>   dp8393x: Always update RRA pointers and sequence numbers
>   dp8393x: Don't reset Silicon Revision register
>   dp8393x: Don't stop reception upon RBE interrupt assertion
> 
>  hw/net/dp8393x.c | 205 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 137 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
> 

For the series with q800 machine type and kernel 5.5.0:

Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>