[Avila] Too many ethernet interrupts on Gateworks board

[David Acker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: starman986 [mailto:starman986 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 7:07 PM
> To: Avila
> Subject: Re: [Avila] Too many ethernet interrupts on Gateworks board
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> Thanks for the update. I was hoping for some simple IXP 
> interrupt mask bit disabling to shutdown the needless interrupts.  
> 
> I am also using the madwifi stuff and am disappointed in the 
> performance thoughput from AP to ethernet port.
> My little ASUS access point (200 Mhz ARM9) crushes the 
> gateworks board in throughput.
> 
> What was the pain threshold on a scale of 1 (easy) to 10 
> (painful) for moving to the updated kernel and IXP code?  I'm 
> a linux noob and haven't figured out all of the 
> config-to-makefile business yet.
> 

Check out http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk/patches/2.6.19/ .

I made my own patchset before I found these.  Getting just the needed parts
out of the 2.6.x gateworks gives you is pretty rough.  I can send my
patchset for 2.6.18.4 to the list tomorrow when I am back in the office (I
am actually home sick today...but couldn't resist one email check  :-) .
Once you have the patches applied to a standard kernel from kernel.org, just
make menuconfig and setup your configuration.  Oh, if you want madwifi you
have to download that seperately.  It can then be installed into the kernel
tree using the
madwifi installer in madwifi/patches/install.sh .  You can also build it as
a module outside the kernel tree.

Oh, you can find the ethernet driver on its own at:
http://www.hohnstaedt.de/ixp_npe/ .
-Ack