[vortex] 3Com 3c556B

Andrew Morton andrewm@uow.edu.au
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:23:25 +1100


Louis Gerbarg wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Louis, are there still problems with the resetting of
> > the device, or has that turned out to be a non-issue?
> 
> Yes. I have some idea of how to fix them, though I need to get my hands
> one to fiddle with a little more, I will try to it later tonight or
> tomorrow. I have one question:
> 
> In the freeBSD the equivalent of a total reset appears to issued in the
> EL3WINDOW(0) (well, they use XL_SEL_WIN(0)), whereas in the 3c59x driver
> it is issued in EL3WINDOW(4). It seems to me that that may make no
> difference or it may be very significant (IE, maybe a reset is allowed
> from all memory windows?). Thanks

Yes, that's fine. The `TotalReset' command (and, indeed, all commands)
are issued to the command register which appears at offset 0x0e in _all_
register windows.