Re: ASIX: AX88772 usb ethenet on big-endian system

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:03 +0800, Dave Liu wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 11:47 -0500, David Hollis wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 18:50 +0800, Liu Dave-r63238 wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Have anyone ever made AX88772 usb ethernet driver working on a big endian
> > > system? I notice that some talk about the big-endian issue on maillist, but I
> > > don't know if the axis driver work well on big endian system of the linux-2.6.20-rc6.
> > >  
> > > I'm using the linksys USB200M ver2.1 adapter on PowerPC system. The interface
> > > is eth2. When I ping with the eth2 port. I find the Rx/Tx counter is changing, but
> > > not any packets be sent to the ethernet line. If somebody bring-up it successfully,
> > > please give me on pointer or patch. TIA.
> > 
> > Can you try the attached archive?  Various endian fixes have gone into
> > the driver recently, as well as some PHY handling issues that have shown
> > up on differing AX88772-based devices.  This code SHOULD handle
> > everything and work just fine.  If it doesn't, then there is still work
> > to be done.  I have not ever received any definitive confirmations that
> > the driver does work on big-endian systems, and would really like to
> > know one way or the other if it works.
> Thanks David,
> The attached archive is exactly same as the source code of linux-2.6.20-
> rc6. I will address the issue I happened.
> 

David,
I have the other LINKSYS USB200M NIC adapter, which chipset is AX88172
and PHY RTL8201. I can ping successfully with it in linux-2.6.20-rc6 on
big-endian system, I noticed the AX88772 have on-chip PHY inside. so I
feel the problem maybe exist in PHY part code of axis.c. 
Dave  


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