On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 22:17 +0200, Eliezer Tamir wrote: > Dave, > > Please take a look and tell me if this is better than the last attempt. > > Main changes: > > * Rewrite of the init code: > 1. Full rewrite of the generated code into something easier to read. > 2. Removed zeroes by adding a zero command. > 3. Big chucks of data are read by the chip using the DMA engine > (instead of being written by the driver). > 4. Gzipped more of the data. > > * Removed BE microcode, the swapping is done in the driver instead. > > * Rewrite of the HSI - broke it into three files bnx2x_hsi.h bnx2x_reg.h and > bnx2x_fw_defs.h > > * Fixed SPARSE warnings. > > * Fixed all but three checkpatch.pl warnings. (IMHO they are false positives) > > The diff is against latest net-2.6. > > ftp link: > ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/0001-bnx2x-h-file-rewrite.txt > > gzipped: > ftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/0001-bnx2x-h-file-rewrite.txt.gz > > (will also attache patch inline as reply to this email for review) >
I built the newest bnx2x code against the net-2.6 kernel and ran a number of stress tests with netperf and pktgen. I did not encounter any errors. Max - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
