Call for testers : age(4), Attansic/Atheros L1 gigabit ethernet controller

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:06:07AM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote:
 > This is only for the L1 chipset right, and it does not function for th L2

Yes.

 > chips right? is it be possible to function on the L2 10/100 chip also ?
 > 

Yes, if I have L2 hardware. Note, L2 requires a different driver.

 > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:31:50PM +0900, To freebsd-current at FreeBSD.orgwrote:
 > >  > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:34:12PM +0900, To
 > > freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org wrote:
 > >  >  > Hi,
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > Due to high pressure from FreeBSD user community to get a working
 > >  >  > driver for Attansic/Atheros L1 giagabit ethernet I had changed
 > >  >  > priorities in my TODO list. I had spent several weeks to write
 > >  >  > this driver and I managed to get a working driver. From my very
 > >  >  > limited testing the driver seems to work as expected.
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > ATM the performance is horrible so there must be mis-programmed
 > >  >  > registers or incorrectly configured parameters. Due to the
 > >  >  > existence several variants of L1 hardware and lack of publicly
 > >  >  > available documentation I'd like to know how many variants are
 > >  >  > supported by this driver. L1 gigabit ethernet controller is
 > >  >  > frequently found in ASUS motherboard. Note, it seems that there are
 > >  >  > other variants of hardware as known as L2(Fast ethernet) and newer
 > >  >  > gigabit ethernet(AR81xx) from Atheros. These are not supported by
 > >  >  > this driver and they require a seperate driver. The following
 > >  >  > hardware features are supported by age(4).
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  >   - TCP Segmentation Offload.
 > >  >  >   - Hardware VLAN tag insertion/stripping.
 > >  >  >   - TCP/UDP checksum offload.
 > >  >  >   - Interrupt moderation.
 > >  >  >   - Hardware statistics counter support.
 > >  >  >   - Jumbo frame support.
 > >  >  >   - WOL support.
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > As I said, I already know poor performance issue of age(4) but I'm
 > >  >  > more interested in getting a stable driver. If you're owner of L1
 > >  >  > gigabit ethernet controller please give it spin and let me know
 > >  >  > how it goes on your system.
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > Install:
 > >  >  > o Get age(4) jumbo diff at the following URL. The diff was
 > >  >  >   generated against HEAD but I guess it would also apply to RELENG_7
 > >  >  >   and 7.0-RELEASE.
 > >  >  >   http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.HEAD.diff<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/age/age.HEAD.diff>
 > >  >
 > >  > For 7.0-RELEASE, use the following URL.
 > >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.7.0R.diff<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/age/age.7.0R.diff>
 > >  >
 > >
 > > It seems that previous version have a bug in getting ethernet
 > > hardware address. To diagnose it I've updated age(4) again and
 > > put updated files to the same URL.
 > >
 > > For CURRENT:
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.HEAD.diff<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/age/age.HEAD.diff>
 > > For RELENG_7/7.0-RELEASE:
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/age/age.7.0R.diff<http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eyongari/age/age.7.0R.diff>
 > >
 > >  >  > o Patch kernel srouce and rebuild/reboot your kernel.
 > >  >  >   #cd /usr/src
 > >  >  >   #patch -p0 < /path/to/age.HEAD.diff
 > >  >  >
 > >  >  > Test:
 > >  >  > Use age(4) for your normal network activities and report success or
 > >  >  > any issues you've encountered. The driver may be chatty to ease of
 > >  >  > debugging.
 > >  >  >
 > >
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon