From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Realtek 8169 problems with net booting
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:47:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081129224740.GU28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081129212830.GA5846@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:28:30PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> :
> [...]
> > Other symptoms: it kept trying to renegotiate the link every few seconds.
>
> [...]
> > Hang used to happen on the first incoming packet after boot, _but_ that
> > didn't happen on each boot.
>
> Ok, it is consistent with a dma at (more or less) random location.
>
> Thanks for the report Al.
>
> Can you send the "XID" line printed by the driver on recent kernels so
> that I can figure the specific version of the chipset / PHY ?
Interesting...
Working one -
eth0: RTL8110s at 0xffffc200008b6000, 00:01:80:50:a2:f1, XID 04000000 IRQ 23
B0rken -
eth0: RTL8169s at 0xffffc2000017c000, 00:01:80:4d:0b:3b, XID 00800000 IRQ 23
Note: that's from the logs - I won't get around to testing that stuff until
tomorrow afternoon.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-29 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 18:14 Realtek 8169 problems with net booting Alan Cox
2008-11-24 21:57 ` David Miller
2008-12-04 17:22 ` Michael Brown
2008-12-04 18:15 ` David Miller
2008-12-04 20:45 ` Michael Brown
2008-12-04 20:59 ` David Miller
2008-12-04 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-04 21:55 ` David Miller
2008-11-29 20:44 ` Francois Romieu
2008-11-29 21:06 ` Al Viro
2008-11-29 21:28 ` Francois Romieu
2008-11-29 22:47 ` Al Viro [this message]
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