RE: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal

[Brandeburg, Jesse]

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.
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