Re: Re: [Etherboot-users] Sporadic eepro(10) RX problems after reboot

> Hmm - etherboot 5.3.x didn't work on my board, 5.0.10 back from the 
> simple days did
> (something during the early relocation failed - I didn't really have the 
> time to debug it.

That is interesting to know.  I fixed relocation in a lot of the 
drivers, but I never had a eepro to try.  This is the first report we 
have had (to my knowledge) about this driver.

> BTW: one change I noted was the introduction of 'virt_to_bus' and 
> 'bus_to_virt'
>           conversions which don't really seem to make sense. The memory 
> that
>           is addresses by the pointers in question doesn't live in the 
> CPU's address space
>           or on a bus accessible to the CPU but exists only 'inside' the 
> eepro controller
>           and is accessed by the CPU by setting a 'address register' on 
> the eepro and
>           subsequently reading/writing from/to a 'data port register'.
>           I don't think the conversions do any harm since they should 
> cancel but
>           conceptually it seems wrong.

Did you try removing them?  Some of the older cards just worked when 
relocation was introduced without changes.  I don't think anyone would 
have made changes without testing the driver but I am not sure.

BTW, if you have an extra card that you would like to send me I can try 
to fix the issue in 5.4.

TIm
Tim


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