x1000 onboard network opensource driver in progress

@kas1e

I tried to download 215 MB file and it got to 57% then the whole machine locked up.

@kas1e

This NIC sounds very unusual. I think you mentioned that there is no publicly available documentation? Is the Linux driver in the main kernel source, and what's it called?

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Yes, to have compatibility with OS3/AROS/MorphOS. Also, I don't think I was aware of an alternative approach when I first wrote those drivers.

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AFAIR you're only allowed to call system functions that explicitly say they are interrupt-safe (but I could well be wrong). Is there dynamic information in the config registers that can't be cached during initialisation?

BTW I usually use a local FTP server for network testing. Ping in flood mode can be useful for stress testing too, but unfortunately Roadshow's ping command doesn't allow that.

@TSK
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Yeah i got strange lockup few times too but weren't sure if it me only or not. I have nothing on serial at this moment :( same for you ? Through need to add i lockup 2 times when even wasn't under heavy downloading and wasn't sure if it about network at all ..

Now tried that : reboot, firstly download from os4depot 186mb file : no lockup. then download 400mb file from same os4depot and then another on 190mb (so in summary i download ~1.1GB : no lockup :( so it's amount of transferred data per se..

But then os4depot currently gives me 1.1mb/s , maybe it depends on speed of transfer, how fast your downloads were ?


@ncafferkey
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Yeah its just in linux source (see links in the post #4). I fully mimic how the do, and their code was real TRM (we not 100% fully : they do install 2 interrupts for both RX and TX dma channels, i only instal for RX one currently, and for TX one just do "fire-and-forget" with small poll check (which need to change on real interrupt probably)