BMAC Ethernet Driver

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> I've refreshed the BMAC tarball at http://home.physics.wisc.edu/~nwhitehorn/bm.tgz 
> .
>
> It supports multicast and full-duplex operation now, the code is a  
> little more style(9) compliant, and I don't think I have anything  
> left to do unless someone finds some bugs. The patch to macio is  
> also now included in the tarball.
>
> To support full-duplex operation, I had to do a hack to reset  
> autonegotiation on the PHY (firmware puts the PHY in a weird state  
> where its registers claim it did autonegotiation, but it always ends  
> up in half-duplex mode). This is done in this way:
>
>        sc->sc_mii = device_get_softc(sc->sc_miibus);
>        LIST_FOREACH(child, &sc->sc_mii->mii_phys, mii_list) {
>                mii_phy_auto(child);
>        }
>
> Is a better course to modify lxtphy's attach routine to do this  
> there? Or should this stay in bm?

I lean towards putting it in the PHY driver itself. I expect
a PHY reset to do the right thing and in this case it doesn't
seem to do that.

 From what you say it seems that the driver is commitable at
this time. I can't test it, but I can definitely commit.
Just let me know...

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com