Re: [Etherboot-developers] tlan driver - Working in 5.1

[Marty C. <ma...@et...>]

On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 09:23  AM, Timothy Legge wrote:
> Ken and Marty, can you do a quick test with you cards?  Marty, please
> note the revision number of the chip as displayed on screen.  If it is
> something different than 35 or 48 please let men know.
> Tim

I updated my CVS this morning to the latest, and tested a version 48 
TLAN card.

I was able to boot intermittently, but not reliably in 5.1.9. I set 
debug to 1, and did some more testing, but a 5am power failure 
interrupted my train of thought. When it failed, it seemed to die 
trying to do a transmit. I am wondering if it needs a little more time 
after reset() to settle down. I need to look at the kernel driver to 
see how they handle it. Since they use interrupts, they often set an 
alarm clock for a second in the future and relinquish control for a 
second or two. We might need to just put a little wait in there. Just 
thinking out loud...

I'll give it a another try soon. I appreciate your effort in writing it.

Marty

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