From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268406AbUHYUGn (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:06:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268465AbUHYUGm (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:06:42 -0400 Received: from nwkea-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.42.14]:52971 "EHLO nwkea-mail-2.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268406AbUHYUGK (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:06:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:04:57 -0400 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: TG3 doesn't work in kernel 2.4.27 (David S. Miller) In-reply-to: <20040825120831.55a20c57.davem@redhat.com> To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Brian Somers Message-id: <412CF0E9.2010903@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <20040816110000.1120.31256.Mailman@lists.us.dell.com> <200408162049.FFF09413.8592816B@anet.ne.jp> <20040816143824.15238e42.davem@redhat.com> <412CD101.4050406@sun.com> <20040825120831.55a20c57.davem@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (removed Tetsuo from the as it appears the email address is stale) David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:48:49 -0400 > Mike Waychison wrote: > > >>Tetsuo posted his lscpi -vv output and he has an A2. The hardware >>autoneg patch was written and tested against an A3. >> >>Would it make sense to do (hand-edited): > > > Not really. The autoneg code in the bcm5700 driver works on > all revisions of the 5704 chipset. > > If I can't get this working soon, I'm disabling it for all boards. > The software based fibre autoneg should work just fine for > everyone. If I understand it correctly, the problem we were seeing is that the chip was getting framing errors in high-traffic scenarios. Setting it to use hardware autoneg made these errors disappear. It's possible we need some other work-around.. :\ Maybe Brian can better explain the issue at hand. - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice http://www.sun.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLPDodQs4kOxk3/MRAqrQAJkB0o0SFVv4rJiKcbT9b9LdcVcOowCfWljW 3cCak9CVYaY8Ecj+0s0Cd+M= =V2EG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----