A quick poll ; We've experienced stalls doing TFTP with this driver every so often on the P2 board (utilises the LAN91C96 chip) - I wasn't sure if it was our board port or something else, but recently I've been using another (omap) board with this LAN chip and u-boot and it appears to behave the same way. So it seems reasonable to suspect the driver may be at fault. Can anyone else confirm or deny whether they've seen this before on any boards using this controller?
As an interesting aside, I heard from someone that they'd had problems with performance / stability in Linux 2.4 with the smc9194 driver thats credited as being one of the sources for lan91c96.c. Apparently though the newer smc91x.c driver fixed this and also supports a greater number of SMC controllers as an added bonus, so I've been idly wondering if this is related, and if porting the more ubiquitous smc91x.c may be of value at some point?
Best Wishes,
Dave Peverley
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