Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64

David S. Miller
2005-09-18T06:23:13Z

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.