One little change to the comment is needed. See below
Don
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 20:10 +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On a MIPS Malta board, tons of fifo underflow errors have been observed
> when using u-boot as bootloader instead of YAMON. The reason for that
> is that YAMON used to set the pcnet device to SRAM mode but u-boot does
> not. As a result, the default Tx threshold (64 bytes) is now too small to
> keep the fifo relatively used and it can result to Tx fifo underflow errors.
> As a result of which, it's best to setup the SRAM on supported controllers
> so we can always use the NOUFLO bit.
> + /*
> + * The Am79C973/Am79C975 controllers come with 12K of SRAM
> + * which we can use for the Tx/Rx buffers but most importantly,
> + * the use of SRAM allow us to use the BCR18:NOUFLO bit to avoid
> + * Tx fifo underflows.
> + */
> + if (sram) {
> + /*
> + * The SRAM is being configured in two steps. First we
> + * set the SRAM size in the BCR25:SRAM_SIZE bits. According
> + * to the datasheet, each bit corresponds to a 512-byte
> + * page so we can have at most 24 pages. The SRAM_SIZE
> + * corresponds holds the value of the upper 8 bits of
> + * the 16-bit SRAM size. The low 8-bits start at 0x00
> + * and end at 0xff. So the address range is from 0x0000
> + * up to 0x17ff. Therefore, the SRAM_SIZE is set to 0x17.
> + * The next step is to set the BCR24:SRAM_BND midway through
> + * so the Tx and Rx buffers can share the SRAM equally.
> + */
The comment specifies BCR24 but the code is changing BCR26 which matches
the documentation. Please correct the comment to avoid confusion.
> + a->write_bcr(ioaddr, 25, 0x17);
> + a->write_bcr(ioaddr, 26, 0xc);
> + /* And finally enable the NOUFLO bit */
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