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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:02:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jeff@...zik.org
Cc: mroos@...ux.ee, cebbert@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
grundler@...isc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [patch] NET: remove support for Davicom 9102 from the Tulip
driver
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:38:06 -0400
> Meelis Roos wrote:
> > CE> We have two reports that agree the tulip driver doesn't work for
> > CE> the Davicom 9102 (PCI id 1282:9102). The dmfe driver does work
> > CE> and also claims the same PCI ID.
> >
> > NAK, dmfe does not work on some Sparc64 machines but tulip does.
> >
> > I happent to have a Sun Fire V100 with 2 Davicom NICs (1282:9102 (rev
> > 31)).
> > tulip driver works for them, dmfe doesn't. Tried with 2.6.25-rc7, first
> > it
> > gets MAC addresses all zeroed and second, it only results in Tx
> > timeouts.
>
> At the very least, it sounds like some SROM parsing problems on dmfe's
> part -- assuming a standard SROM when sparc64 provides a more
> complicated one.
With the onboard Sparc64 davicoms, the SROM is essentially empty.
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