etherboot-developers

[Etherboot-developers] i82559er

[Helmut A. <Hel...@ju...>]

Hi there...

I have used Etherboot since 4.6.2 and in most cases it worked fine. 
Yesterday I have downloaded 4.6.12 and I have recognized that you 
added the i82559er controller. I made changes to earlier releases 
(4.6.9-4.6.10) to get this controller work. In 4.6.12 the controller 
stuff works well, but there are no outgoing packets. To me there is 
a problem with changes to mknbi.....

Please respond for more detailed information....
Thanks
Helmut

Re: [Etherboot-developers] i82559er

[Helmut A. <Hel...@ju...>]

Hi...

> I have a feeling that the 82559er and other new models didn't really
> work until 4.7.13 or so when the changes for EEPROs with 256 byte config
> EEPROMs were finally correctly introduced.  Could you please have a look
> at the latest 4.7.17 and see if the changes are the same as what you
> have done?  If not please send me some changes that work for you. I have
> no way of testing them myself.

Whe have 2 products using the 82559er. I have figured out that the 
bios ext. works fine with one product. Running it on the other 
product didn't work. I assume the controller is up, the eeprom can 
be accessed, but there are no packets going out of the cable. I 
used the eepro100.c file of 4.7.13 and copied it to the 4.6.10 
release and it worked on both products. To me it is not the driver it 
self, but the rest of the project. Something has changed and 
creates e.g. a runtime problem such as data segment and stack 
crash...
I now try to figure out what the differences between the two 
products are.
I hope we can solv the problem soon... we don't sell the etherboot 
bios extensions, I just recommend it to customers and try to push 
it through the company group. It is a great project!!!!!

Helmut