[realtek] rtl8139 and UltraSparc 5

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:40:38AM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to use a rtl8139 in an UltraSparc 5 with little success... I have
> > > RedHat 6.2 installed, using the stock kernel 2.2.19 rpm (64 bits).
> > 
> > What driver?  And what version number?
> The relevant part of kernel messages:
...
> rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
> eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xfffff9fe02000400, IRQ 6447936, 00:e0:7d:a8:b9:a2.
>   PCI latency timer (CFLT) is unreasonably low at 0.  Setting to 64 clocks.
> eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver at 100Mb/s, Half Duplex.

This message is not from my v1.07 driver.  You are using a modified
driver, and I do not support modified code.

Perhaps someone else knows what the problem is.

> >   A problem with the ring wrap (we need to know the driver version).
> >     This could be interacting with the DMA-able page allocation on the Sparc

I suspect this...

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