Messages in this thread | | | 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) |
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(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 <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM> 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
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