From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, kaos@sgi.com, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:33:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12c511ca050917233313418638@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050917.232304.31192760.davem@davemloft.net>
> 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.
It does sound odd[1] that you can't rewrite the BARs to the values that
they should already have. But I'm willing to wait to see what SGI's
solution that fixes this inside arch/ia64/sn/ looks like before making
any judgements.
-Tony
[1] odd == PCI spec violating?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-18 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 5:22 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64 Keith Owens
2005-09-13 5:37 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-13 6:17 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 6:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-13 6:48 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-13 6:59 ` Greg KH
2005-09-13 7:27 ` Keith Owens
2005-09-17 15:47 ` Tony Luck
2005-09-17 15:59 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 16:16 ` Greg KH
2005-09-17 16:34 ` Jack Steiner
2005-09-17 16:48 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-17 16:46 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-18 6:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-18 6:33 ` Tony Luck [this message]
2005-09-18 11:44 ` Jack Steiner
[not found] <20050919204523.GD15838@sgi.com>
2005-09-19 22:43 ` Mike Habeck
2005-09-20 1:14 ` David S. Miller
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