* Greg KH:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:04:49PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> The dl2k driver is not maintained anymore (I've tried to contact the
>> Edward Peng, but have never heard back anything). At least with the
>> DGE-550SX card, it doesn't work with modern hardware because under
>> load, the card seems to see different queue contents than the host.
>> It worked fine in older hosts (but we only stressed receive back than,
>> not transmit). We also went back way early in the 2.6 series to get
>> matching kernel versions, and the driver still did not work in the new
>> box, so it's not just bitrot ("new" is relative, our debugging
>> attempts happened in 2006).
>>
>> I guess the lack of synchronization in the code might explain this,
>> but I don't know how to fix it. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable
>> could have a look at the driver?
>>
>> The FreeBSD folks have specs for the underlying chip (a Tamarack
>> TC9021), I believe.
>
> Are they published anywhere?
<http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Sundance/TC9021-DS-R20-030312.pdf>
IIRC our past debugging efforts, the magic numbers match.
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