Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:45:23 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g) |
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Hi!
> > 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 :-)
You might want to report them, then look at diff between latest and previous versions :-)))). Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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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