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On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:22 +0200, Risto Suominen wrote: > Here is a patch that helped me to get my de2104x NIC working on my > PowerMac 5500. As an interesting side effect, it also made my mesh > module crash. > > Background can be found here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg88488.html I'll catch up with the discussion in netdev, I think the workaround should be in the driver... Or if not, we can do special dma-ops just for that device. Just to make sure I didn't miss something, please send me a tarball of /proc/device-tree of your machine. Cheers, Ben. > Risto > > Allow setting NOT_COHERENT_CACHE explicitly. > > Signed-off-by: Risto Suominen <Risto.Suominen@gmail.com> > --- > The testing is done on kernel version 2.6.24. > > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Kconfig.org 2008-01-25 > 00:58:37.000000000 +0200 > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Kconfig 2009-02-10 > 17:44:24.000000000 +0200 > @@ -18,4 +18,10 @@ config PPC_PMAC64 > select PPC_970_NAP > default y > > - > +config NOT_COHERENT_CACHE > + bool "Incoherent cache" > + default n > + help > + Setting this option may be necessary for avoiding cache-related > + problems with some network cards on some platforms. An example is > + 2104x and PowerMac 5500. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:22 +0200, Risto Suominen wrote: > Here is a patch that helped me to get my de2104x NIC working on my > PowerMac 5500. As an interesting side effect, it also made my mesh > module crash. Can you tell me more about the mesh crash ? Do you have a log ? Ben.
2009/2/13, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>: > > Can you tell me more about the mesh crash ? Do you have a log ? > Please find attached the device-tree and a log of loading the mesh module after the boot. This way it didn't crash, but did odd things: all it should find, on the bus, is a cd-rom drive at 3. Now it finds two LUNs that it interprets as disks. Risto
Allow setting NOT_COHERENT_CACHE explicitly. Signed-off-by: Risto Suominen <Risto.Suominen@gmail.com> --- The testing is done on kernel version 2.6.24. --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Kconfig.org 2008-01-25 00:58:37.000000000 +0200 +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Kconfig 2009-02-10 17:44:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -18,4 +18,10 @@ config PPC_PMAC64 select PPC_970_NAP default y - +config NOT_COHERENT_CACHE + bool "Incoherent cache" + default n + help + Setting this option may be necessary for avoiding cache-related + problems with some network cards on some platforms. An example is + 2104x and PowerMac 5500.
Here is a patch that helped me to get my de2104x NIC working on my PowerMac 5500. As an interesting side effect, it also made my mesh module crash. Background can be found here: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg88488.html Risto Allow setting NOT_COHERENT_CACHE explicitly. Signed-off-by: Risto Suominen <Risto.Suominen@gmail.com> --- The testing is done on kernel version 2.6.24. --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Kconfig.org 2008-01-25 00:58:37.000000000 +0200 +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Kconfig 2009-02-10 17:44:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -18,4 +18,10 @@ config PPC_PMAC64 select PPC_970_NAP default y - +config NOT_COHERENT_CACHE + bool "Incoherent cache" + default n + help + Setting this option may be necessary for avoiding cache-related + problems with some network cards on some platforms. An example is + 2104x and PowerMac 5500.