From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Brian Jackson <notiggy@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:16:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100124991.20794.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb20c214041110123615f89230@mail.gmail.com>
On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 20:36, Brian Jackson wrote:
> > Remove the kernel code that powers down the ethernet chip. If that works
>
> Yay, looks like this bit near line 1950 of via-rhine.c:
> /* Hit power state D3 (sleep) */
> writeb(readb(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW);
>
> I removed that, and it works like a charm now. Thank you very much.
Excellent - its as I thought - the BIOS isn't bringing the chip out of
powersave for PXE but assumes it is live. Possibly one for a module
option but really it is a BIOS bug, although a very minor and easy to
understand how it got missed one
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-10 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-10 18:36 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart Brian Jackson
2004-11-10 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-10 20:36 ` Brian Jackson
2004-11-10 22:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-11-11 18:43 ` Roger Luethi
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