RE: [Etherboot-developers] TX Timeout

[Hamish G. \(M. Lists\) <ha...@dp...>]

Ken,

I have been having some really weird things going on with one of my
development systems - this was even before I started incorporating the timer
code in 5.0.3, I thought I would just build a standard tulip.lzfd0 and test
it on one of my machines - the configuration was such that it should use the
BIOS timer - It never managed to receive a DHCP packet - also, the timer
appeared to be running extremely slowly. I then used the TSC version of the
code and it was better, I received an IP and it requested the kernel from
the tftp server but then bombed. This is with a Linksys card on a PIII
600MHz machine.

As an experiment, I then moved the NIC to a 233MHz PII box and it works
perfectly.

I will try some more combinations, but there is something strange going on.

As a result, of this nonsense, I have lost the rest of the day for coding,
so will not be sending the timer stuff today - I will see if I am barred
from working tomorrow by the boss!!! (read wife)



Regards

Hamish

-----Original Message-----
From: eth...@li...
[mailto:eth...@li...]On Behalf Of
Ken Yap
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 2:50 PM
To: Etherboot developers list
Cc: ha...@dp...
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-developers] TX Timeout


>I have just downloaded 5.0.3 and I will incorporate it in that - there are
a
>few changes I will make - like reducing the size of the IDT and then also
>putting in the PIC and PIT init code.
>
>I will try to get it to you this afternoon if possible

No hurry, it'll go into the next release, although I will check it into
CVS and also release a patch under Patch Manager.

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