CFT: txp(4)

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 18:33:16 PDT 2009


On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 04:59:25PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:41:46AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here is drop-in replacement txp(4) for all architectures. I think
> > I've fixed all known issues such as controller hang under heavy
> > network load, missing link state transition handling etc. If you
> > ever suffered from instability of txp(4) please give it a try and
> > let me know how it goes. Testing on systems with more than 4GB
> > memory was not done due to lack of hardwares. ATM it was tested on
> > i386 and sparc64.
> > 
> > Note, txp(4) now downloads firmware in interface up time so it may
> > take longer time to initialize the interface than that of stock
> > version. This change was made to ensure correct operation of
> > hardware and to support WOL.
> > 
> > Install : Download the following files and rebuild kernel.
> > 
> > For CURRENT :
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/txp/if_txp.c
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/txp/if_txpreg.h
> > 
> > For 7.1-RELEASE and stable/7 :
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/txp/if_txp.c
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/txp/if_txpreg.h
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/txp/3c990img.h
> > 
> 
> There was a typo in multicasting filter code and I updated if_txp.c.
> If you already downloaded the file please fetch again.
> 

For a record, I've committed overhauled txp(4) to HEAD(r189714).


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