Re: [Etherboot-developers] rtl8139 TX timeout solved (for me)

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Bernd Wiebelt <wi...@dr...> writes:

> Thanks to the suggestion from Eric W. Biederman, I was able to get my
> RTL8139 card to behave. I verbatimely copy'n'pasted code to activate
> busmastering from 3c90x.c to rtl8139.c and things magically began to work.
> 
> It seems my BIOS is buggy (i.e. not initializing PCI cards correctly)?

Possibly.  I haven't seen a spec on what BIOS's are supposed to initialize
before calling the rom on a card.

Given that we need this for both linuxBIOS and some of the more different BIOS's
I suspect we should create some helper functions like pci_enable_device and
pci_set_master (examples from the linux kernel api) and use these in
all of the pci networking drivers. 

Marty, Ken what do you think?

Eric