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

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

> 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

I assume that you mean that you used the most recent cvs, not the 5.1.9
tarball.

> 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

That could be the reason I needed the udelay in the transmit.

> 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...

You may be right on that.  Maybe I need to move the delay from the
transmit to the reset.  You do have the version with udelay(5) in the
transmit correct?

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

No problem, I am please to offer what little I can.

Tim

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