Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:40:29 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal |
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Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Roberto Nibali wrote: > >>>> Sounds sane to me. My overall opinion on eepro100 removal is that >>>> we're not there yet. Rare problem cases remain where e100 fails >>>> but eepro100 works, and it's older drivers so its low priority for >>>> everybody. >>>> >>>> Needs to happen, though... >>>> >>> It seems that several Tyan Opteron base system that were using IPMI >>> add on card. the IPMI card share intel 100Mhz nic onboard. you need >>> to use eepro100 instead of e100 otherwise the e100 will shutdown OOB >>> (out of Band) connection for IPMI when shut down the OS. >>> >> I find it hard to believe that something as common as IPMI in >> conjunction with the IPMI technology wasn't tested in Intel's lab. >> From my experience with Intel Server boards, onboard IPMI (all offered >> versions) and e100/e1000 NICs, I've never ever experienced any >> problems operating the BMC over the NIC. Also, I don't quite >> understand you point about the "IPMI card sharing the 100Mbit/s NIC" >> onboard? What exactly is shared? >> > > It's a legit problem, but only with this *one* system. > > Of course the eepro100 driver is not taking a lot of maintenance either, removing it is not critical as long as there is a legitimate need to support old hardware.
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