Re: [BUG] e100 driver fails to initialize the hardware after kernel bootup through kexec

[Andrey Nekrasov <andy@spylog.ru>]

Hello Eric W. Biederman,

Once you wrote about "Re: [BUG] e100 driver fails to initialize the hardware after kernel bootup through kexec":
> Michael Fu <michael.fu@linux.co.intel.com> writes:
> 
> > After kernel was bootup through kexec command, the NIC failed to
> > initialize. The 2.5.52 kernel was patched with kexec and kexec-hwfix
> > patch.
> 
> Interesting...  The patch goes cleanly onto newer kernels so feel
> free to play with them.  You are running a single cpu system
> so the kexec-hwfix patch should not make a difference at this point.
> 
> Your interrupt routing is via ACPI interesting...
> 
> > 
> > the following was is the dmesg output:
> 
> [snip]
> > Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.24-k2
> > Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > PCI: Enabling device 02:09.0 (0000 -> 0003)
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:09.0 to 64
> > e100: selftest timeout
> > e100: Failed to initialize, instance #0

use NIC EEPro100+ on INTEL STL2 motherboard, with "eepro100" driver - all work ok.

or "e100" driver and with patch:


--- drivers/net/e100/e100.h-    Wed Dec  4 15:16:08 2002 
+++ drivers/net/e100/e100.h     Wed Dec  4 15:16:20 2002 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 
 #define E100_MAX_NIC 16
 
-#define E100_MAX_SCB_WAIT      100     /* Max udelays in wait_scb */ 
+#define E100_MAX_SCB_WAIT      5000    /* Max udelays in wait_scb */ 
 #define E100_MAX_CU_IDLE_WAIT  50      /* Max udelays in wait_cus_idle */
 
 /* HWI feature related constant */

all work ok.