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SubjectRe: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g)
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 :-)
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