[ECOS] RealTek 8139 on Advantech PCM-5820

[<Chris at nimseus dot com>]

Hi,

I am currently testing Erics RTL 8139 driver on my Advantech 
PCM-5820 platform. Using the driver (revision 1, 01 Aug) it 
was no problem running Redboot. As I have learned Redboot 
uses its own TCP/IP stack and runs the driver in polling 
mode. Trying to set-up a standard environment (i386) using 
the net package was another story. The net package utilize 
the interrupt functionality of the driver and this would not 
run.

I have managed to track down a few of the reasons why this is 
happening. I have modified the driver so it is now up and 
running. My questions is though: How do I communicate my 
changes?

I have NOT attached the if_8139.h and if_8139.c files where 
the modifications have been made as I am not sure where these 
should be published. I would appreciate if anyone could tell 
me this. Any crucial modifications are indicated 
by "//////****** Chg ->" as beginning and "//////****** Chg <-
" as ending.

I have read the discussion regarding sharing of interrupts 
for this driver. My modification has most likely disabled the 
sharing feature as the code has removed the hardware mask and 
unmask of interrupts.

Looking forward to any response.

Best regards,

Chris Nimmers


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