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    net: ethernet: pcnet32: Setup the SRAM and NOUFLO on Am79C97{3, 5} · 87f966d9
    Markos Chandras authored
    On a MIPS Malta board, tons of fifo underflow errors have been observed
    when using u-boot as bootloader instead of YAMON. The reason for that
    is that YAMON used to set the pcnet device to SRAM mode but u-boot does
    not. As a result, the default Tx threshold (64 bytes) is now too small to
    keep the fifo relatively used and it can result to Tx fifo underflow errors.
    As a result of which, it's best to setup the SRAM on supported controllers
    so we can always use the NOUFLO bit.
    
    Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Don Fry <pcnet32@frontier.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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