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| After that I started to remove some of the jumbo frame code of the driver. It's not finished and doesn't build yet, so I haven't pushed it yet. | After that I started to remove some of the jumbo frame code of the driver. It's not finished and doesn't build yet, so I haven't pushed it yet. | ||
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| + | ====== Day 2 ( May 31 ) ====== | ||
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| + | I removed the jumbo frame support from the driver today. Support for ethtool stats and rx copy threshold was removed too. The changes were tested on 2 different testing cards by moving around a 1.5gb file over the network. The modified driver was used alternatively on the sending and the receiving end and no issues were observed. | ||
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| + | ====== Day 3 ( June 1 ) ====== | ||
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| + | Unfortunately no progress was made today. I had to meet a deadline for college and worked on college things first. When I was getting started with driver stuff I got a somewhat unexpected visit from some friends. | ||
| + | I will try to make up for the lost time on the weekend as I hope to be not so busy then. | ||
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| + | ====== Day 4 ( June 2 ) ====== | ||
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| + | MSI/MSIX support was the victim of today. This simplifies the interrupt setup and handling code. None of the benefits of MSI/MSIX are relevant in gPXE. | ||
| + | I tested this commit on all 4 card variants and also used a more thorough test to expose any bugs that might have been introduced in this or any previous commit. I couldn't find any issues which is starting to make me suspicious :P. | ||
| + | With the (unpushed) removal of the firmware loading support we have removed over 3500 LoC so far. Hopefully many more will follow soon :) | ||
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| + | ====== Day 5 ( June 3 ) ====== | ||
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| + | Today I started importing the driver code into the gPXE tree. I copied and adapted the tg3_init_one() function for gPXE and started doing the same for tg3_get_invariants(). | ||
| + | It doesn't build yet, so I hadn't commited it to git before. I commited it for the weekly meeting and pushed it to my repository now. | ||
