On Sun, 14 May 2000 wart@mojo.spb.edu wrote:
> Subject: RL100-ATX Problem
>
> I've got the driver for my RL100-ATX, which is called 'winbond.c', e.g. supporting WinBond840 Chipset.
> On 2.2.14 I've compiled it, but insmodding it caused kernel oops 002
>(however, the driver was installed.
I tested the driver today, and didn't have any crashing problem.
There was one bug that came up. The original code used desc->status as an
signed value. When the driver was converted to explicitly handle the
little-endian descriptors on big-endian machine, it assumed le32_to_cpu()
would return a signed value. This assumption was true with my version
compatibility macros, but failed with the kernel's macros.
The operational effect was very slow operation, and many logged messages,
but not a driver crash.
The updated version, v1.01, is at
http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/winbond-840.c
> Later,
> then I tried to pass some data through eth0, the machine freezed completely).
This was probably an effect of the earlier crash, which I am unable to
reproduce.
Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210
Annapolis MD 21403
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