call for sk(4) testers

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:26:14PM +0100, Frank Behrens wrote:
 > On Thu Jan 12 03:33:19 PST 2006 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > > Here is modified sk(4) that makes use of bus_dma(9). It was lightly
 > > tested on sparc64(SMP)/i386(SMP).
 > > ...
 > > You can get latest sk(4) driver from the following URL.
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/if_sk.c
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/sk/if_skreg.h
 > > ...
 > > I'd like to hear any success/failure reports. If you have a NIC that
 > > is supported by sk(4) please give it a try and let me know the result.
 > 
 > Here my short status report:
 > 
 > History: In November 2004 I bought a new motherboard with 
 > Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)/<Marvell 88E1000 
 > Gigabit PHY, but this was unusable under FreeBSD 5.3. A short time 
 > later an errata notice was created for this release. So I used this 
 > NIC for slow DSL connection only. 
 > 
 > Some weeks ago I changed my LAN architecture, I wanted to use the 1GB 
 > NIC with sk0 and thought the OS has now (6.0) working drivers. But 
 > immediately I has some locks and "sk0 watchdog timeouts". So I tried 
 > the mentioned drivers.
 > 
 > The result is - very good. I'm using the driver from the web site
 > MD5 (if_sk.c) = 2ce9867445df8e1bfe6075597a0de87c
 > MD5 (if_skreg.h) = c8b572ae9fa3b536af86dff07a5c75e9
 > with  6.1-PRERELEASE-200602270917 i386
 > and had no problems until now.
 > 
 > Thanks for this work, it seems to be a real improvement.
 > 

Thanks for your report.
If you find any unusual things related with sk(4) please let me know.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon