[eepro100] Sleep Bit mode and EEPROM fix?

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Gordon Gere wrote:

> 	Sorry for not reading all of the messages before this, but I just read the
> seemingly unrelated message thread about "eepro100 driver frequently dying
> in Linux 2.4.4", and came across the bug with the sleep bit mode.  Since
> MPICH seems to run faster and therefor stresses the network more perhaps its
> because of this that my program "stalls".  Here is my output from
> eepro100-diag.
> 
> Index #1: Found a Intel i82557/8/9 EtherExpressPro100 adapter at 0xa400.
> EEPROM contents, size 64x16:
>     00: 0200 1cb3 32d5 0203 0000 0201 4701 0000
>   0x08: 7213 8310 40a2 000c 8086 0000 0000 0000
>                      ^--- bit 2 of word 10?
>       ...
>   0x30: 0128 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>   0x38: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 66ae
>  The EEPROM checksum is correct.
...
> Perhaps I missed, but I assume that the "^---" is where the sleep bit is.

I'm uncertain if "bit 2" means 0x0002 or 0x0004.
I have only the '557 and '558 manuals, which both list word 10 as reserved.

> Since Donald Becker posted "If someone reports an EEPROM with the sleep mode
> bit set, I'll make the trivial trivial code change to clear it with the '-G'
> option.", I would like to provide a copy of my EEPROM but havn't yet figured
> out how to get that feature of eepro100-diag + libflash to work.

The output above is the EEPROM contents.
The boot ROM is technically also an EEPROM, but I refer to it as "Flash"
to distinguish it from the much smaller serial EEPROM that contains the
configuration information.

I'll update the diagnostic program...

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