<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Phil<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class="">Throughput test failure message.</div><div class="">=========</div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">1.048576 6.75 MB/sec</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">1.048576 6.75 MB/sec</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Warning: Average Bandwidth 69.84 Mb/sec is less than 80.0% of the interface speed of 1000 Mb/sec</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">Error: Could not achieve required bandwidth</font></div></div><div class=""><div class="">=========</div><div class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 <a href="http://Lenovo.com" class="">Lenovo.com</a> link below but the make failed on it due to missing <font face="Courier New" class="">asm/linkage.h</font>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds004078/" class="">https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds004078/</a></div><div class=""><a href="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=" class="">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=</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the full description of the product from Broadcom is at <a href="https://datasheet.octopart.com/BCM5755KFBG-Broadcom-datasheet-11554433.pdf" class="">https://datasheet.octopart.com/BCM5755KFBG-Broadcom-datasheet-11554433.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See lshw -c network output below.</div><div class="">=========</div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class="">*-network</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> description: Ethernet interface</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> product: NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> physical id: 0</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> logical name: enp3s0</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> version: 02</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> serial: 00:1a:64:3e:bb:fa</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> size: 1Gbit/s</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> capacity: 1Gbit/s</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> width: 64 bits</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> clock: 33MHz</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 252, 0);" class="">driver=tg3 driverversion=3.137</span> duplex=full firmware=5755-v3.20 ip=192.168.1.60 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier New" class=""> resources: irq:26 memory:dfef0000-dfefffff</font></div></div><div class="">=========</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be great if we can get a driver that will make the test pass.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 25, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Banu Bhandaru <<a href="mailto:bbhandar@redhat.com" class="">bbhandar@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 25, 2020, at 8:05 AM, Phil Perry <<a href="mailto:phil@elrepo.org" class="">phil@elrepo.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 25/07/2020 02:50, Banu Bhandaru wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hello there,<br class="">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.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">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?<br class=""><br class="">There is an OpenChrome VIA Xorg driver here:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Openchrome/" class="">https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Openchrome/</a><br class=""><br class="">but it doesn't look like it's been touched for many years.<br class=""><br class="">What driver are you currently using?<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">elrepo mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org" class="">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo" class="">http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>