From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 07:31:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5521065671 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:31:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0B48FC15 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:31:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1912585wxd.7 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:31:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=v+wVshj0IMghxg47oBZd/9jpJD55JUVqvWbHb3/fcUw=; b=oxNj/zLZPpswEX1y8NgE9tsj54hUwAttHVf+cekKSNdRrCUYpG5OdTsKEMWarrmJZ/Oh9iCSvRnZTDFq3y47amZbthQIPphbiEg+llYFey+oWdMkScVoucEpCahRniFDKYCh7RtXKwGwzQVI3vmtU5QnU1l/+iQpodK2U+El9m8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=vikzKEJiKgXj0x9fO6VxIUVN8Bq8ezvDi+hDpkPNsinzwS6AJN11N5lZ1QgM82bkd46HgbJxBlVb7GrmA6F42RvYNOmMAoW1Cz7lBIAK9ABlS5PI5+sA3HZMJ3mXIjJ9nXxbSDlv+/GFpzkAT2N0IUnWPUQTTqgCRe1ZT/IJ99U= Received: by 10.150.123.16 with SMTP id v16mr2526911ybc.156.1205134316742; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr ( [211.53.35.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm11262464wrs.22.2008.03.10.00.31.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (localhost.cdnetworks.co.kr [127.0.0.1]) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id m2A7VomM005016 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:31:50 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: (from yongari@localhost) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id m2A7Vogi005015; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:31:50 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:31:50 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20080310073150.GC4425@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <20080310043412.GA4425@cdnetworks.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080310043412.GA4425@cdnetworks.co.kr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: Call for testers : age(4), Attansic/Atheros L1 gigabit ethernet controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:31:57 -0000 On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:34:12PM +0900, To freebsd-current@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 For 7.0-RELEASE, use the following URL. http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/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. > > Thanks in advance. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon