Call For Testers: axe(4) with Ax88178 and Ax88772 support

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Friday 30 March 2007 20:50, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
> On Feb 15, 19:33, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
> > I have updated the axe(4) driver with Ax88178 and Ax88772 support.
> >
> > Go here to get it:
> > 	http://opal.com/jr/freebsd/sys/dev/usb/
>
> My original version of these Ax88178 and Ax88772 enhancements (back
> in February) did not use the chips' input frame bursting because
> the FreeBSD usb_ether framework does not support it.
>
> I have now enhanced the driver, removing its use of the usb_ether
> framework, and doing its own buffer management with large input
> buffers which can handle bursts of multiple input frames in one
> buffer.
>
> The diffs and files on the web page referenced above have been
> updated for this new version.
>
> The driver appears to work, and I have set it to burst up to 4096
> bytes.
>
> The device can actually burst up to 16384 bytes.  However, if I set
> it to burst more than 4096 bytes, the usb layer (ehci on my test
> system) stalls, and all input stops after just a few input frames.
> I'd appreciate feedback from anyone if larger burst sizes work for
> you.  See the notes on that web page for details of how to change
> the driver's burst size.

This sounds like a problem with the EHCI driver.

If I pull your changes into the new USB stack, which will take some hours, can 
you do some work to install and test it?

--HPS