netdev - Re: Realtek 8169 problems with net booting

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Date:	Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:44:17 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Realtek 8169 problems with net booting

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> :
> On one box here it has always been the case that now and then the boot
> with crash just after r8169 is loaded iff the BIOS network rom (ie the
> dhcp stuff) is enabled. Its erratic, hard to reproduce but I finally got
> around to looking at the driver and have a question that seems to apply
> to several network drivers
[...]
> The master bit is off when the driver is loaded it appears but surely the
> driver should do
>
> 	twiddle a few bits
> 	soft reset chip
> 	pci_set_master

You are right.

Can you try the attached patch against 2.6.28-rc6 and tell if it makes a
difference or not ?

While I did not test it in a BIOS network boot configuration it did not
crash trivially with these devices:
RTL8168b/8111b / XID 38000000
RTL8110s       / XID 04000000

Note to others: this patch needs testing with different chipsets (XID)
before being included upstream.

--
Ueimor

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