Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: rtl_disable and random kernel crash.

[Marty C. <md...@th...>]

On 4/5/01 11:45 PM Ken Yap ke...@nl... wrote:
>static void rtl_disable(struct nic *nic)
>{
>	/* reset the chip */
>	outb(CmdReset, ioaddr + ChipCmd);
>
>	/* 10 ms timeout */
>	load_timer2(10*TICKS_PER_MS);
>	while ((inb(ioaddr + ChipCmd) & CmdReset) != 0 && timer2_running())
>		/* wait */;
>}
>
>and add #include "timer.h" near the top. The hardware timer is more
>consistent than a counting loop.

Thanks Ken!  I just changed rom-o-matic.net to include this code in 
4.6.12 and 4.7.23. I also made floppies and booted my test station, and 
the code seems to function properly. 

Many thanks to Mr. Hyun-Joon Cha for this contribution.  We should 
probably go through each driver to make sure that we are disabling the 
NIC's receive and transmit engines either by explicitly turning them off 
or resetting the NIC as is done here.


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