Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up with
TCR.MXDMA set to 16 bytes. While this does not prevent proper
operation, it almost certainly degrades performance.
Fix by explicitly setting TCR.MXDMA to "unlimited".
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[realtek] Use explicit values for RCR.RXFTH and RCR.MXDMA
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up with invalid
values in RCR.RXFTH and RCR.MXDMA, causing receive DMA to fail. Fix
by setting explicit values for both fields.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[realtek] Always set high dword of ring address registers
Some RTL8169 cards (observed with an RTL8169SC) power up with garbage
values in the ring address registers, and do not clear the registers
on reset.
Fix by always setting the high dword of the ring address registers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[realtek] Support RTL8139 cards within generic Realtek driver
RTL8139C+ cards use essentially the same datapath as RTL8169, which is
zerocopy and 64-bit capable. Older RTL8139 cards use a single receive
ring buffer rather than a descriptor ring, but still share substantial
amounts of functionality with RTL8169.
Include support for RTL8139 cards within the generic Realtek driver,
since there is no way to differentiate between RTL8139 and RTL8139C+
cards based on the PCI IDs alone.
Many thanks to all the people who worked on the rtl8139 driver over
the years.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The link state is currently set at probe time, and updated only when
the device is polled. This results in the user seeing a misleading
stale "Link: down" message, if autonegotiation did not complete within
the short timespan of the probe routine.
Fix by updating the link state when the device is opened, so that the
message that ends up being displayed to the user reflects the real
link state at device open time.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown