Things to tackle in the MIPS space?

[Juli Mallett]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:36, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Juli Mallett wrote:
>>> 2) Ehternet support. Also apparently broken, although I know little about ENET and PHYs and such. We do  have people here who do though.
>>
>> Um, what happened to Ethernet support?  It worked and worked quite
>> well the last time I touched it.  Performance could be better, but
>> improving performance of the Ethernet driver would probably be a
>> pretty nasty way to learn about how Ethernet drivers work.  (Namely
>> because it's easy to make the performance much better for a single
>> case and a lot worse for every other one.)  You shouldn't need to know
>> anything much about how the PHYs work, though.
>
> My experience has been mixed.  Some boards work great w/o any tweaking at all.  Others don't work at all.  Sadly, I've sent back the board I have that worked and just have one that doesn't work.

For the sake of not sewing unnecessary confusion on the list, I just
want to add that this is almost certainly because of deficiencies in
board support code in the Simple Executive, which I'm happy to help
fix for boards that have patches against any version of the Cavium
SDK/Linux, than because the driver doesn't work, as was intimated
earlier.