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From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: Brian Jackson <notiggy@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:43:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111184338.GC9771@k3.hellgate.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb20c214041110123615f89230@mail.gmail.com>

[BCC'ed the people at VNTEK who are on the case]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:36:50 -0600, Brian Jackson wrote:
> > > Then the bios tries to fallback to other means of booting, and there
> > > are none. Anybody got any clues where to start looking for fixes?
> > 
> > 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.

I'm sorry, I should posted a warning earlier. This problem has been
reported before.

> > then poke VIA.
> 
> Poke them to fix the driver or to fix the bios?

BIOS. I can't fix this in the driver. Some hardware requires D3 for WOL.

Roger

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-11 18:47 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
2004-11-11 18:43     ` Roger Luethi [this message]

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