Re: broadcom 5752 in HP dc7600U works on 2.6.13 but does not working on 2.6.16

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Barry Scott <barry.scott@onelan.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Under FC4's build of 2.6.13 the broadcom 5752 works well. But when the
>  I use the FC4 build of 2.6.16 it no long works.
> 
>  The hardware is an HP dc7600U, P4 2.8GHz CPU, 512MB memory
>  SATA disk.
> 
>  mii-tool correctly reports the state of the eth0. Removing and inserting the
>  cable is reported as expected. But DHCP or static IP configuration does not
>  work under 2.6.16.
> 
>  In dmesg output on 2.6.16 I see this message:
>  ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> 
>  I have recompiled the 2.6.13 version of tg3.c for 2.6.16 and that does 
>  not fix
>  the problem.
> 
>  Looking at /proc/interrupts I see that a lot of difference between .13 
>  and .16 kernels.
>  Is this related to the problem?
> 
>  Attached are the output of dmesg and /proc/interrupts on 2.6.13 and 
>  2.6.16 kernels
>  as well as lspci output.

It appears that the 2.6.13 kernel did not bring up the machine's io-APICs,
but 2.6.16 did.  However you are receiving eth0 interrupts on 2.6.16 so
perhaps that's not relevant.

Don't know, sorry - tg3 works OK for most people.  You could try booting
with the `noapic' kernel paremeter, perhaps.

Note that googling for "noapic" gets 212,000 hits - we've _really_ screwed
something up in there.  Maybe one day some developer will lay hands on one
of these machines and will fix something.

If noapic doesn't work (and I suspect it won't) then a next step would be
to compile a kernel.org kernel and start enabling debug options.  It's
hard, when we don't know which kernel subsystem broke.