Some RTL8169 cards seem to drive the EEPROM CS line high (i.e. active)
when 9346CR.EEM is set to "normal operating mode", with the result
that the CS line is never deasserted. The symptom of this is that the
first read from the EEPROM will work, while all subsequent reads will
return garbage data.
Reported-by: Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up advertising
only 100Mbps, despite being capable of 1000Mbps. Forcibly enable
advertisement of 1000Mbps on any RTL8169-like card.
This change relies on the assumption that the CTRL1000 register will
not exist on 100Mbps-only RTL8169 cards such as the RTL8101.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) crash and burn if DAC
is enabled, even if only 32-bit addresses are used. Observed
behaviour includes system lockups and repeated transmission of garbage
data onto the wire.
This seems to be a known problem. The Linux r8169 driver disables DAC
by default and provides a "use_dac" module parameter.
There appears to be no known test for determining whether or not DAC
will work. As a workaround, enable DAC only if we are built as as
64-bit binary. This at least eliminates the problem in the common
case of a 32-bit build, which will never use 64-bit addresses anyway.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some bits in the C+ Command register are always one. Testing for the
presence of the register must allow for this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up with
TCR.MXDMA set to 16 bytes. While this does not prevent proper
operation, it almost certainly degrades performance.
Fix by explicitly setting TCR.MXDMA to "unlimited".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up with invalid
values in RCR.RXFTH and RCR.MXDMA, causing receive DMA to fail. Fix
by setting explicit values for both fields.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up with garbage
values in the ring address registers, and do not clear the registers
on reset.
Fix by always setting the high dword of the ring address registers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
RTL8139C+ cards use essentially the same datapath as RTL8169, which is
zerocopy and 64-bit capable. Older RTL8139 cards use a single receive
ring buffer rather than a descriptor ring, but still share substantial
amounts of functionality with RTL8169.
Include support for RTL8139 cards within the generic Realtek driver,
since there is no way to differentiate between RTL8139 and RTL8139C+
cards based on the PCI IDs alone.
Many thanks to all the people who worked on the rtl8139 driver over
the years.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The link state is currently set at probe time, and updated only when
the device is polled. This results in the user seeing a misleading
stale "Link: down" message, if autonegotiation did not complete within
the short timespan of the probe routine.
Fix by updating the link state when the device is opened, so that the
message that ends up being displayed to the user reflects the real
link state at device open time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Tested-by: Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Thomas Miletich <thomas.miletich@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
