[BETA-0.91] New test release of Tigon3 driver

[BETA-0.91] New test release of Tigon3 driver

[David S. Miller]

Thanks to everyone who has tested and gotten back to us so
far.  A new release is up at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3-0.91.patch.gz

Older releases will be stored in the "old/" subdirectory.
As before, this is against 2.4.18 but it should be easy to add
this to any other tree.

Brief changelog against 0.91:

[BUG FIX} 5701 and later chips not configured properly for
          interrupt handling (me)
[BUG FIX] Try to rectify vital product data read failures
          on Dell Vipor boards (me)
[FEATURE] Finish initial implementation of the rest of the ethtool
	  support.  Largely untested. (me+jeff)
[FIX]	  Add missing PCI/subsystem IDs (jeff)
[FIX]	  Add missing defines for registers we do not make use
	  of yet on the card. (me)
[FIX]	  Add missing IDs and recognition of 5703 boards and PHYs.
[FIX]	  PCI-X bus speeds not reported properly.

Success/failure reports are appreciated.  I would like to note
that the most important thing to tell us is the one line ident
the kernel log gets for each board it probes.  Like so:

eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95700A6) rev 7102 PHY(5401)] (PCI:33MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:04:76:2f:e2:d0

That has all the details we need to see in order to know exactly
what kind of card you have.  The lspci dumps are nice, but basically
superfluous :-)  Telling us what platform (x86, ppc, alpha, ia64,
etc.) you are on would be appreciated as well.

Thanks again.

Re: [BETA-0.91] New test release of Tigon3 driver

[Simon Kirby]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:03:18AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who has tested and gotten back to us so
> far.  A new release is up at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3-0.91.patch.gz
> ...
> eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95700A6) rev 7102 PHY(5401)] (PCI:33MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:04:76:2f:e2:d0

Woohoo!  I was just about to order a batch of 3c996BTs, too...

Anybody know which is the best copper implementation of this chip at
the moment?  I wasn't able to obtain the Dell cards in Canada and the
Broadcom implementations appear to all be only for Broadcom OEM
evaluations...

Simon-

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Re: [BETA-0.91] New test release of Tigon3 driver

[nick]

That implies to me that you have a burning need to become a broadcom
customer, and happen to need to evaluate their implementation right now
<grin>.
	Nick

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Simon Kirby wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:03:18AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to everyone who has tested and gotten back to us so
> > far.  A new release is up at:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3-0.91.patch.gz
> > ...
> > eth1: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95700A6) rev 7102 PHY(5401)] (PCI:33MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:04:76:2f:e2:d0
> 
> Woohoo!  I was just about to order a batch of 3c996BTs, too...
> 
> Anybody know which is the best copper implementation of this chip at
> the moment?  I wasn't able to obtain the Dell cards in Canada and the
> Broadcom implementations appear to all be only for Broadcom OEM
> evaluations...
> 
> Simon-
> 
> [  Stormix Technologies Inc.  ][  NetNation Communications Inc. ]
> [       sim@stormix.com       ][       sim@netnation.com        ]
> [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employers. ]
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