From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michal Piotrowski" Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1 sky2 boot crash in sky2_mac_intr Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:30:31 +0200 Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0707241630p3599ad99sfd778097b307e78c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070724082205.GA19480@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20070724095008.0eb154fe@oldman.hamilton.local> <20070724094042.GA6414@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Stephen Hemminger" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Florian Lohoff" Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:27060 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755870AbXGXXac (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:30:32 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so12140wah for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:30:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070724094042.GA6414@paradigm.rfc822.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Florian, On 24/07/07, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:50:08AM +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The problem is related to power management. The PHY has a number of PCI configuration > > registers for power control, and the function of these changes based on the version and > > revision of the chip. The driver does work on older versions of the EC-U, in > > Fujitsu laptop's, it is just the new rev that is broken. > > > > The driver should probably fail smarter (by not loading) if the PHY isn't powered > > up correctly, but that doesn't help your problem. > > > > The vendor has provided me with documentation on many versions > > of the chip, but I don't have doc's on the lastest revision differences of the EC Ultra, > > so a proper solution is not easily available. The best method for resolving this would > > be to first try the vendor driver version of sk98lin and see if that fixes it. If so, > > then it is easy to change sky2, to match the phy setup in the vendor driver. > > Another possibility is to look for places in sky2 driver where there are places > > that compare version/revision. > > > > The most likely bits that need to change are in PCI registers: 0x80, 0x84 and 0x88 > > You could also load the windows driver and dump PCI config space (with lspci from > > cygwin), and see what the settings are there. > > > > I am away from my office for a month, and therefore away from any sky2 > > hardware for testing. > > I'll try the above and keep you posted. The crash itself seems to be a > 2.6.23-rc1 regression though. I never experienced this with 2.6.22-rc5 > which i was running before. Can you try to figure out what is causing this crash and then use git-bisect? Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/