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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:08:41 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
Cc:        Sascha Holzleiter <sascha@holzleiter.name>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers
Message-ID:  <20090309060841.GH5039@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <200903081705.12523.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
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On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:05:12PM +0000, ian j hart wrote:
> On Sunday 08 March 2009 02:36:42 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 05:17:57PM +0000, ian j hart wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 January 2009 02:45:19 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:33:46PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > >  > On Monday 19 January 2009 04:33 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > > >  > > I found something interesting.  I have another RTL8169SC that
> > > >  > > works perfectly fine without the patch.  The hardware revision is
> > > >  > > 0x18000000.  After reading Linux driver (drivers/net/r8169c), I
> > > >  > > realised they use different masks for hardware revisions.  With
> > > >  > > their logic, non-working chip seems to be 0x98000000 (8110SCe)
> > > >  > > while working chip seems to be 0x18000000 (8110SCd) with
> > > >  > > 0xfc800000. FYI...
> > > >  >
> > > >  > Now armed with the information, I made it work without reverting
> > > >  > memory mapped I/O. :-)
> > > >  >
> > > >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/re/re.current2.diff
> > > >  > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/re/re.stable2.diff
> > > >
> > > > I like the patch. Since only RTL8169 family uses mask 0xfc800000
> > > > it would be even better we can limit checking scope for RTL8169SC
> > > > by comparing PCI device id. I don't know what other side effect
> > > > would happen if the mask 0xfc800000 would be used on 8101/8168
> > > > controllers.
> > > > If the patch works on RTL8169SC would you commit the patch?
> > > > I'd like to see multiple commits separated by each enhancements
> > > > as the patch contains several fixes which are not directly related
> > > > with the issue.
> > >
> > > Where are we on this?
> > >
> > > I have a headless firewall box which is not happy with 7.1-RELEASE. I've
> > > upgraded to 7.1-STABLE as of yesterday and now I'm getting 'PHY read
> > > failed' errors, although the network did come up, which was an
> > > improvement.
> > >
> > > Is there a patch I can try?
> > >
> > > http://www.jetway.com.tw/jw/ipcboard_view.asp?productid=174&proname=AD3RT
> > >LAN-G
> > >
> > > re0: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port
> > > 0xf200-0xf2ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdfff0ff irq 18 at device 9.0 on pci0 re0:
> > > Chip rev. 0x18000000
> > > re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> > > re0: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:ae:1a:1b
> > > re0: [FILTER]
> > > re1: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port
> > > 0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xfdffd000-0xfdffd0ff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci0
> > > re1: Chip rev. 0x18000000
> > > re1: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> > > re1: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:ae:1a:1c
> > > re1: [FILTER]
> > > re2: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port
> > > 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfdffc000-0xfdffc0ff irq 16 at device 12.0 on pci0
> > > re2: Chip rev. 0x18000000
> > > re2: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> > > re2: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:ae:1a:1d
> > > re2: [FILTER]
> > >
> > > re0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
> > > hdr=0x00 re1@pci0:0:11:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3
> > > chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 re2@pci0:0:12:0:        class=0x020000
> > > card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
> >
> > Have you tried re(4) in HEAD?
> > I had one report that re(4) in HEAD still does not fix the issue so
> > I posted a possible workaround for that. Unfortunately he didn't
> > report back so I don't know whether it was right workaround or not.
> > If re(4) in HEAD does not fix the issue, would you try attached
> > patch and let me know how it goes?
> 
> Firstly IANAKH, my expertise in this area stops after "make kernel".
> 
> I updated
> 
> /usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c
> /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h
> 
> to HEAD
> 

And after updating to HEAD did you apply my patch?

> I still get "PHY read failed" with and without the patch.
> 

That's odd. Another user who has the same controller reports the
fix fixed the issue. I also committed the patch to HEAD so would
you give it spin again (without applying any patches)?



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