On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:22:06 -0400 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:03:25 +0200 (CEST) > Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > > > I (and a lot of other users) have been experiencing the frequent sky2 > > > transmit timeout problem [1] (on 88E8053/Yukon2 EC gig hardware); this > > > is a result of the embedded NIC controller locking up, and I've found > > > that updating the firmware addresses this issue. I'm still seeing a > > > previous and different issue [2] from time to time though (silicon > > > bug?). > > > > Thanks for the info. I've been dealing with this problem for some long > > time, hopefully sky driver from the latest kernels is able to recover > > from such hangs, so it is not that critical problem now. > > > > > Marvell shipping broken firmware is completely unpublicised or > > > acknowledged, however updated firmware is available through your > > > motherboard vendor, so all hope it not lost after all... > > > > Unfortunately not through all vendors. :( Or maybe not *yet*? > > > > > My 8053/EC is using firmware 2.2 (previously 1.9) - you can check in > > > DOS with 'yukondg.exe' from > > > http://www.marvell.com/drivers/files/yukondg_v6.53.4.3.zip . > > > > Stephen, is it possible for sky2 driver to check and print the > > firmware version? > > It is possible to dump and program eeprom from linux, and the version > maybe buried in the VPD, but some hardware has non-functional VPD. The revision number in the VPD matches the revision number (from PCI) that is already printed by the driver. Since I don't have enough documentation on the firmware to know the format, there is no way to print anything really useful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
