[elrepo] sata_via

[Banu Bhandaru]

Hello Phil

I was able to run RHEL 8 certification test using nothing up sata_via and pata_via drivers. All the tests passed except for TCP throughput test(failed due to very low throughput about 1 Mbps) and kernel modules due to excessive taint level.
Throughput test failure message.
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1.048576 6.75 MB/sec

1.048576 6.75 MB/sec
Warning: Average Bandwidth 69.84 Mb/sec is less than 80.0% of the interface speed of 1000 Mb/sec
Error: Could not achieve required bandwidth
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The network driver it is using is tg3 version 3.137. Is there a way we can get a driver for this for RHEL8? I was able to find the code for a later version of the driver at Lenovo.com link below but the make failed on it due to missing asm/linkage.h. 

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds004078/
https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?pg=Ethernet+Connectivity,+Switching,+and+PHYs&pf=ETHERNET+NETWORK+ADAPTERS&pn=&pa=&po=Broadcom&dk=&pl=https://www.broadcom.com/support/download-search?pg=Ethernet+Connectivity,+Switching,+and+PHYs&pf=ETHERNET+NETWORK+ADAPTERS&pn=&pa=&po=Broadcom&dk=&pl=

This is the full description of the product from Broadcom is  at https://datasheet.octopart.com/BCM5755KFBG-Broadcom-datasheet-11554433.pdf

See lshw -c network output below.
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*-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
                vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
                logical name: enp3s0
                version: 02
                serial: 00:1a:64:3e:bb:fa
                size: 1Gbit/s
                capacity: 1Gbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.137 duplex=full firmware=5755-v3.20 ip=192.168.1.60 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
                resources: irq:26 memory:dfef0000-dfefffff
=========

It would be great if we can get a driver that will make the test pass.


Regards
BANU BHANDARU
SR. SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
NA CHANNEL & ALLIANCES, GSI
E: BBHANDAR at REDHAT.COM <mailto:BBHANDAR at REDHAT.COM> M: 214.498.7419 <tel:+12144987419>

TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED.

> On Jul 25, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Banu Bhandaru <bbhandar at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Totally understand your question but there is reason behind it. I think it is using vesa driver but the lshw shows that it is not using any particular driver.
> 
> I have downloaded the openchrome driver and will be installing it this am and run a second set of tests. I was able to install that driver on RHEL 7 using  'yum install xorg-x11-drv-openchrome’. Hope it is available in RHEL8.
> 
> 
> Regards
> BANU BHANDARU
> SR. SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
> NA CHANNEL & ALLIANCES, GSI
> E: BBHANDAR at REDHAT.COM <mailto:BBHANDAR at REDHAT.COM> M: 214.498.7419 <tel:+12144987419>
> <PastedGraphic-4.png>
> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED.
> 
>> On Jul 25, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org <mailto:phil at elrepo.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 25/07/2020 02:50, Banu Bhandaru wrote:
>>> Hello there,
>>> The sata_via drivers work great. However, we are now runing into a high CPU usage of the Xorg process when doing a hardware cert test. Can you please check the lshw output attached and get us the right driver for VIA VGA monitor. Let me know if you need any additional information.
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm not sure I'm going to be able to help with this. What type of hardware certification tests are you running with RHEL8 on such old hardware? It looks like you are trying to install RHEL8 on an old IBM 4800-743 POS terminal?
>> 
>> There is an OpenChrome VIA Xorg driver here:
>> 
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Openchrome/ <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Openchrome/>
>> 
>> but it doesn't look like it's been touched for many years.
>> 
>> What driver are you currently using?
>> 
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