ETA for solution for DMA problem for Arch Linux image & A64+ 2 GB boards?

[rahlquist]

Hi!


Actually I have installed Arch image on a board with 2GB RAM for about two weeks and I have not encountered any issue with gigabyte ethernet.

yeah, i just booted mine, seems ok thus far, but i'll put it through paces. but the quote i did from the wiki was rather prominent, just wondering if there is an ETA on the fix and if it is a board firmware fix, an ubuntu fix, a combo of that, or something else?

Hey faddah,

I believe the point piney was making is that the linux based distros do not have any major issues with ethernet, they have been addressed. So the ETA is in the past.

As for the fix I think I read it was a DMA issue which would lead me to believe a driver issue was the problem. 

Ran a speed test this morning. 

Code:

root@debianpine64:~# iperf -c 192.168.0.104 -t 60
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.0.104, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 22.5 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.0.164 port 39854 connected with 192.168.0.104 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-60.0 sec  2.90 GBytes   415 Mbits/sec

I cant complain about that.

Matter of fact this caused me to find that my media server was currently only connected at 100Mbit, so thanks for your question it made me find an issue on my own network LOL.