Re: TG3 doesn't work in kernel 2.4.27 (David S. Miller)

[Roland Dreier]

    David> The real problem was the MAC_STATUS register checking in
    David> tg3_timer() that we use to determine if we should call the
    David> PHY code.  Specifically, we were failing to test
    David> MAC_STATUS_SIGNAL_DET being set, which when trying to bring
    David> the link up means we should call tg3_setup_phy().

    David> There are still some nagging problems with certain blades
    David> even with my current code.  Brian, if you want to help I'd
    David> really appreciate it if you worked with current tg3 sources
    David> as I rewrote the 5704 hw autoneg support from scratch since
    David> it was missing a hw bug workaround and had other issues as
    David> well.

Hmm... for what it's worth, Brian's patch against 2.6.8.1 works on my
JS20 blade, and the latest BK tg3 code doesn't.

Thanks,
  Roland
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