From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:45:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040611094523.GB13834@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040611061730.GA8081@ee.oulu.fi>
Hi!
> > Okay, this is probably other problem. When the bug hit, what are the symptoms?
> Total immediate crash without an oops. When the RX ring skbufs are allocated
> with GFP_DMA receives work, but any transmits from > 1GB cause a link
> down/link up (which is just about all of them). With GPF_DMA bounce
> buffers those start working too.
>
> > > (Or the issue isn't fully understood yet, figuring out what breaks and what
> > > doesn't was basically just trial and error :-/ )
> >
> > Can you try the driver from broadcom? bcom4400, or how is it
> > called. Its extremely ugly, but might get this kind of stuff right...
> Tried that, it breaks with 4:4 and >1GB in exactly the same way :-)
You might want to report them, then look at diff between latest and
previous versions :-)))).
Pavel
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-06-05 20:06 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-05 20:19 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-09 12:29 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-10 20:05 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-10 20:34 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-10 21:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-11 6:17 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-11 9:45 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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