Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:17:30 +0300 | From | Pekka Pietikainen <> | Subject | Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g) |
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:12:17PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Okay, this is probably other problem. When the bug hit, what are the symptoms? Total immediate crash without an oops. When the RX ring skbufs are allocated with GFP_DMA receives work, but any transmits from > 1GB cause a link down/link up (which is just about all of them). With GPF_DMA bounce buffers those start working too.
> > (Or the issue isn't fully understood yet, figuring out what breaks and what > > doesn't was basically just trial and error :-/ ) > > Can you try the driver from broadcom? bcom4400, or how is it > called. Its extremely ugly, but might get this kind of stuff right... Tried that, it breaks with 4:4 and >1GB in exactly the same way :-) - 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/
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