Re: 5.99.15 ale quirks on Asus Eee 1000H

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> I've done an upgrade install on an Asus Eee 1000H ... so far things look
> like they're going well and the ale device is working, however I'm seeing
> the following from dmesg during boot and around dhclient startup:
> 
> |ale0: DMA read error! -- resetting
> |ale0: could not disable Tx/Rx MAC(0x00000008)!
> |ale0: DMA read error! -- resetting
> |ale0: could not disable Tx/Rx MAC(0x00000008)!
> |ale0: DMA read error! -- resetting
> |ale0: could not disable Tx/Rx MAC(0x00000008)!
> 
> The device is up and appears to work OK ... whatever the issue us
> doesn't appear to affect ssh interactive use, but haven't yet tried to
> push a lot of data through it, so can't give complete report, sorry
> 
> Other than that, things seem fine ... still using stock 5.0 X11 as I 
> forgot to build that ... :)

If your NIC is fast ethernet only, then attach patch may help.

Christoph

Index: if_ale.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/dev/pci/if_ale.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -r1.5 if_ale.c
--- if_ale.c    5 Aug 2009 07:03:04 -0000       1.5
+++ if_ale.c    5 Aug 2009 07:08:06 -0000
@@ -142,6 +142,17 @@ ale_miibus_readreg(device_t dev, int phy
        if (phy != sc->ale_phyaddr)
                return 0;
 
+       if (sc->ale_flags & ALE_FAST_ETHER) {
+               switch (reg) {
+               case MII_100T2CR:
+               case MII_100T2SR:
+               case MII_EXTSR:
+                       return 0;
+               default:
+                       break;
+               }
+       }
+
        CSR_WRITE_4(sc, ALE_MDIO, MDIO_OP_EXECUTE | MDIO_OP_READ |
            MDIO_SUP_PREAMBLE | MDIO_CLK_25_4 | MDIO_REG_ADDR(reg));
        for (i = ALE_PHY_TIMEOUT; i > 0; i--) {
@@ -157,7 +168,7 @@ ale_miibus_readreg(device_t dev, int phy
                return 0;
        }
 
-       return ((v & MDIO_DATA_MASK) >> MDIO_DATA_SHIFT);
+       return (v & MDIO_DATA_MASK) >> MDIO_DATA_SHIFT;
 }
 
 static void
@@ -170,6 +181,17 @@ ale_miibus_writereg(device_t dev, int ph
        if (phy != sc->ale_phyaddr)
                return;
 
+       if (sc->ale_flags & ALE_FAST_ETHER) {
+               switch (reg) {
+               case MII_100T2CR:
+               case MII_100T2SR:
+               case MII_EXTSR:
+                       return;
+               default:
+                       break;
+               }
+       }
+
        CSR_WRITE_4(sc, ALE_MDIO, MDIO_OP_EXECUTE | MDIO_OP_WRITE |
            (val & MDIO_DATA_MASK) << MDIO_DATA_SHIFT |
            MDIO_SUP_PREAMBLE | MDIO_CLK_25_4 | MDIO_REG_ADDR(reg));