Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:33:57 -0700 | | From | Tony Luck <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64 |
| |
> It fixes the problem, but it's a hack, and I, perhaps like Tony, > personally would like to know why the these IA64 systems break for > such a simple operation such as writing some base registers with > values we've probed already.
It does sound odd[1] that you can't rewrite the BARs to the values that they should already have. But I'm willing to wait to see what SGI's solution that fixes this inside arch/ia64/sn/ looks like before making any judgements.
-Tony
[1] odd == PCI spec violating? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |