netdev - Re: [patch] NET: remove support for Davicom 9102 from the Tulip driver

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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:28:03 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
To:	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>
cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, cebbert@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] NET: remove support for Davicom 9102 from the Tulip
 driver

> 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@...ux.ee)
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