Re: pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3

Petr Vandrovec (vandrove@vc.cvut.cz)
Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:27:47 -0700


Carsten Langgaard wrote:
>
> Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> > Current Linux driver switches them to 16bit mode in pcnet_probe1:
> >
> > pcnet_dwio_reset(); // reset to 16bit mode when in 32bit, ignore in
> > 16bit mode
> > pcnet_wio_reset(); // device is for sure in 16bit mode, but reset it
> > again to

> I'm afraid that's not true.
> The above only do a software reset and that doesn't effect the I/O mode.
> Only a hardware reset effects the I/O mode.
> An because any firmware might changes to 32bit mode after reset (of the whole
> system), we need to support both modes.

Oops. I misinterpreted what code does. Really stupid hardware.
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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