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From: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux•ee>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux•org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>,
	cebbert@redhat•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] NET: remove support for Davicom 9102 from the Tulip driver
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:28:03 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0804071726210.29033@math.ut.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080404232650.GE27826@colo.lackof.org>

> jeff and davem already answered the basic SROM/MAC address issue.
> Patches to fix this are associated with
> 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9106

> >> I happent to have a Sun Fire V100 with 2 Davicom NICs (1282:9102 (rev 
> >> 31)).
> >> tulip driver works for them, dmfe doesn't.
> 
> This experience doesn't agree with the bug report.
> Meelis, can you please take a look at the bug report and add comments?

Comments added.

> We tried (b) but didn't get it working on V100 previously.
> Several patches are attached to the bug report.

There was one patch (for getting the MAC from OpenFirmware) but as 
people reported that the Tx timeouts still happen, I didn't try it. Any 
reason to try?

-- 
Meelis Roos (mroos@linux•ee)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03  9:10 [patch] NET: remove support for Davicom 9102 from the Tulip driver Meelis Roos
2008-04-04 21:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-04 22:02   ` David Miller
2008-04-04 22:06     ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-04 22:28       ` David Miller
2008-04-04 23:26   ` Grant Grundler
2008-04-07 14:28     ` Meelis Roos [this message]
2008-04-09 15:54       ` Grant Grundler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-04  8:56 Meelis Roos
2008-04-04 19:43 ` David Miller
2008-04-04 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-04 21:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-04 22:05   ` David Miller
2008-04-02 22:46 Chuck Ebbert
2008-04-04  5:46 ` Jeff Garzik

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