From: Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>
To: etherboot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Etherboot-developers] 3c90x polling again [patch]
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:22:36 +0100
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11)

Hello,

gPXE didn't work on 3COM 905C Tornado cards for me.
It did transmit the DHCP request, but it didn't see the DHCP offer.

Adding debug print statements allready solved the problem.
Attached is a patch that has a cleaner delay then print statements.
The core of it is
-    for(i=0;i<40000;i++);
+    mdelay(1);

There was no research if the change is about a longer delay
or about code NOT being optimized away. It works for me   :-)

Cheers
Geert Stappers

e1000 should now work in VMware.

driver's probe() routine fills in in nic->irqno.  This is so that
non-interrupt-capable legacy drivers which set nic->irqno=0 will end
up reporting IRQ#0 via PXENV_UNDI_GET_INFORMATION; this in turn means
that the calling PXE NBP will (should) hook the timer interrupt, and
everything will sort of work.

The e1000_irq() routine should (per mcb30) do enable on non-zero,
disable on zero.  This is not consistent in all drivers, so I'll
wait to update it when doing a global sweep.

This needs to be done manually because if the irq() routine is
implemented then we want something like "nic->irqno = pci->irqno;",
else we do "nic->irqno = 0;" nic->ioaddr may also need to be set
carefully.

Also added local variables to end of many files, for emacs indentation
to match kernel style (tab does 8 space indent).

for "echo -e" on the host system.

_textdata_link_addr, _load_addr and _max_align in the linker scripts.
A bug in some versions of ld causes segfaults if the DEFINED() macro
is used in a linker script *and* the -Map option to ld is present.

We don't currently need to override any of these values; if we need to
do so in future then the solution will probably be to always specify
the values on the ld command line, and have the linker script not
define them at all.

suitable "echo -e" substitute.

is non-functional anyway.

PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO.  NTLDR does this.

Cleanups for e1000.c.

supply options.

PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO.  If we dont do this, Altiris' NBP screws up; it
relies on being able to grab pointers to each of the three packets and
then read them at will later.

s_PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO, because this field doesn't exist in earlier
versions of the PXE spec, and some callers don't allocate space for it.

also avoid waiting for ProxyDHCP offers).

Also reduce the ProxyDHCP timeout, because it's already irritating me.

I have successfully booted DOS via iSCSI and PXELINUX via TFTP with this
version of the e1000 driver.

implemented smbios_get_uuid().

potentially exorbitant amounts of stack space.

There may still be an issue with memory handling, since it seems to
die ungracefully when ARP packets come in after loading a kernel.
Something to debug.

autonegotiation still needs work.  receive is not working yet.

needing to know the gPXE internal ROM name.