Subject: kern/22813: tlp driver reports wrong error for 21041
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/16/2003 13:09:08
>Number: 22813
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: tlp driver reports wrong error for 21041
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 16 11:10:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Michael van Elst
>Release: NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE
>Organization:
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Michael van Elst
Internet: mlelstv@serpens.de
"A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
>Environment:
System: NetBSD fud 1.6.1_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE (FUD) #4: Mon Sep 15 14:42:36 MEST 2003 src@fud:/d/0/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/FUD i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
When a DECchip 21041 based card isn't granted bus requests before the
internal receive FIFO fills up, it will report this in the buffer
descriptor in bit 0. Bit 3 of the descriptor is undefined.
Newer chips, like the 21143 do not use bit 0, it is always zero,
but they do use bit 3 to report MII errors.
The error bits in the descriptor are reported in /sys/dev/ic/tulip.c
line 1277ff.
>How-To-Repeat:
send lots of data to a 21041 based Ethernet card on a slow motherboard
and watch the kernel report MII errors instead of overflows.
>Fix:
Make the error printing dependent on sc->sc_chip.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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