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

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:05:03 -0700
Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     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.

Ok, some debugging to do. :)
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