Subject: Re: [ethtool] Add new Realtek devices

From: Peter Wu <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 23:08:49 +0200

On Tuesday 23 July 2013 22:25:44 Francois Romieu wrote:
> Peter Wu <[email-masked]> :
> [...]
> 
> > sure what the cause is of this strange behavior. Francois, perhaps you
> > have an idea why reading in blocks of larger than 7 results in a error?
> 
> No but it has been seen before. Platform or device thing ?

What kind of devices were those? This issue occurs on an on-board PCIe chip 
where the memory is 64-bit, prefetchable. I have no issues with a PCI card, 
memory 32-bit, non-prefetchable.

PCI: RTL8168sb
PCIe: RTL8111E

Regards,
Peter