[Avila] fatal ethernet error on gw2348-4

[Loft]

David Acker wrote:
> Loft wrote:
>>
>> Gianluca and others,
>>
>> I'm putting final touches on a BSP for the upcoming 2.6.19 series.  
>> I'm running 2.6.19-rc3 and 2.6.19-rc4 in both Big and Little Endian.  
>> 2.6.18 was done a little while ago.  The 2.6.18 and .19-rc releases 
>> use the GPL (non-Intel) NPE drivers. There's no support for the 
>> crypto processing in the open drivers yet, but I hear it's on the way.
>
> Where can we download the source for 2.6.18 based BSP?  I just 
> finished up a patchset for 2.6.18 that gives it access all the 
> required gateworks patches.  I don't have the intel NPE code 
> integrated yet...it's on my todo list.
Most of the patches are in the repository. But it's a NSLU2-Linux 
repository not a Loft/Avila repository.  The Loft/Avila has great 
representation there because I'm there. I work closely with the other 
developers. A few have purchased below-cost Loft boards. 

My clients that just want solutions just get something like this: 
http://www.giantshoulderinc.com/ArmDebian/.   They get full patches and 
some support. They are also running up and out of the box.

Now with the free drivers, I can provide an Intel NPE software free 
version.  Software only.  The NPE microcode loads fine out of the 
RedBoot partition on the Avila line.  Clearly, people can use other 
Intel microcode versions after obtaining them from Intel.
>
>
> Where can we get access to the GPL NPE code?  I have seen some recent 
> discussion about this on the ARM mailing list but I have not seen 
> where the code lives.  I only joined the ARM list recently.  Is the 
> patch hanging around some nslu2 svn repository?  Perhaps an arm only 
> git tree?
> -Ack
Check the nslu2-linux kernel repo.

See http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/kernel/trunk/patches/2.6.19/ 
too.  The BE patch for the CF driver wasn't in .18 it was the LE 
patch.   The legacy IDE/CF starts to be deprecated in .19+ with the 
libata patches. It may might need a little air time for production systems.

The non upstream (Linux mainline kernel) EEPROM notifier patch is in .18 
under the Loft, but not in .19. For .19 MLJ went wild and split out the 
Avila/Loft platforms in anticipation of the libata changes.

Likewise, there's patch from ixmac_open that's missing for the build-in 
kernel code.  The EEPROM notifier works with modules but not with the 
build-in code.  The EEPROM subsystem will have run before the IXP 
modules when loaded as a module, but not for the built-in case.

Other notes:

1) NSLU2-Linux pioneered the broad use of the 2.6 driver NPE drivers. 
We've been running that since around 9/04 with from kernel versions 
2.6.7 or 2.6.9.
2) NSLU2-Linux was the first and probably only place to run the NPEs 
(and the whole box) in LE mode. 
3) NSLU2-Linux has pioneered the using the open drivers.
4) A fellow NSLU2-Linux kernel hacker Alessandro pushed the significant 
driver modifications upstream for the Temp/Voltage sensor, and recently 
the CF driver with the new libata support in 2.6.19-rc series.

Regards,

Tom

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