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Message-ID: <482084E8.70803@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 12:18:48 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: Add support for BM PHYs on ICH9 Auke Kok wrote: > From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com> > > This patch adds support for the BM PHY, a new PHY model being used > on ICH9-based implementations. > > This new PHY exposes issues in the ICH9 silicon when receiving > jumbo frames large enough to use more than a certain part of the > Rx FIFO, and this unfortunately breaks packet split jumbo receives. > For this reason we re-introduce (for affected adapters only) the > jumbo single-skb receive routine back so that people who do > wish to use jumbo frames on these ich9 platforms can do so. > Part of this problem has to do with CPU sleep states and to make > sure that all the wake up timings are correctly we force them > with the recently merged pm_qos infrastructure written by Mark > Gross. (See http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/400). > > To make code read a bit easier we introduce a _IS_ICH flag so > that we don't need to do mac type checks over the code. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> applied -- 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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