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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:23:04 +0000
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64
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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:59:14 -0400

> I posted a patch on Wednesday:
> 
> 	http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2193.html
> 
> The original reporter (Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>) confirmed this
> patch to fix the problem.

It fixes the problem, but it's a hack, and I, perhaps like Tony,
personally would like to know why the these IA64 systems break for
such a simple operation such as writing some base registers with
values we've probed already.