Lock enabling onboard lan (Attansic L1 GbE) on 7.1-PRERELEASE

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:32:09AM +0100, barbara wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:29:57PM +0100, barbara wrote:
> > >
> > > Any news about that?
> > >
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047527.html
> > >
> >
> > I'm sorry, I forgot this issue which was caused by my disk crash
> > happened in the end of Jan, 2009.
> > I've updated age(4) patch in the following URL.
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.diff
> >
> > Please test the with
> > 1. shutdown your box
> > 2. remove power cable and wait 5 min.
> > 3. unplug UTP cabble
> > 4. boot and see whether age(4) does not lockup your box
> > 5. plug UTP cable and see whether age(4) can send/receive traffics
> >
> > And please do
> > 1. reboot your box with UTP cable plugged in
> > 2. check whether age(4) works
> >
> > Please also see whether ethernet MAC address is correctly detected
> > in both cases.
> >
> > Thanks for reminder.
> >
> 
> I tried with the last commited version after updating src with no luck: still hang on boot (actually it hangs when I kldload it, as I removed it from my KERNCONF, so I can boot with the NIC enabled).
> Then I applied your patch and, as with the previous one you asked me to try, it's working.
> 
> I did the two tests exactly how you asked and everything seems fine.
> The MAC address is correct in both cases.
> The connection is working and I did some huge file transfer with ssh with another pc with performance comparable with my rl0 (I think at the limits of a 100Mbps net, imposed by my router).
> 
> Here you can find my dmesg -a
> http://pastebin.com/f4afd50db
> If you have any other test I can do for you, please ask.
> 

FYI, patch committed to HEAD(r190499).

> Do you have any idea if it will included it 7.2-RELEASE?
> 

I'm not sure, it needs more testing as there are several variants
of Attansic L1 controllers.