> Attached you will find a patch to the tulip driver in Linux 2.4. This patch
> will interpret a bit more of 21142 extended format type 3 info blocks in a
> tulip SROM. This allows correct autonegotation of the builtin 21143 based
> ethernet adapter on a digital PWS500a(u).
This patch isn't quite correct.
The to-advertise value in the type 3 media info block must be written
to the transceiver after each transceiver reset. The write is done in
select_media(), not when initially reading EEPROM.
One part of the problem is that to work correctly the driver must keep the
to-advertise values separately for the SYM/serial transceiver and each MII
transceiver.
> Maybe a future version should do
> a more thorough interpretation of the SROM.
The tulip driver in 2.4 uses older media selection code. See the
tulip.c driver at
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
for a driver with the many updates needed to support recent chips and
boards.
Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993
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