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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:22:50 -0700 From: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> To: "Roberto Nibali" <ratz@...gphish.ch>, "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai.lu@....com> Cc: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@...ox.com>, "Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@....com>, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <saw@....sw.com.sg> Subject: RE: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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