Re: 2.6.14-rc1 breaks tg3 on ia64

[Tony Luck]

> It fixes the problem, but it's a hack, and I, perhaps like Tony,
> personally would like to know why the these IA64 systems break for
> such a simple operation such as writing some base registers with
> values we've probed already.

It does sound odd[1] that you can't rewrite the BARs to the values that
they should already have.  But I'm willing to wait to see what SGI's
solution that fixes this inside arch/ia64/sn/ looks like before making
any judgements.

-Tony

[1] odd == PCI spec violating?
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