netdev - Re: re add support for bcm5750

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Message-ID: <20110916162824.GB27116@mcarlson.broadcom.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:28:24 -0700
From:	"Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
To:	"Francesco Piccinno" <stack.box@...il.com>
cc:	"Florian Mickler" <florian@...kler.org>,
	"Matthew Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Benjamin Li" <benli@...adcom.com>,
	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: re add support for bcm5750

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:39:30AM -0700, Francesco Piccinno wrote:
> I have contacted Broadcom asking for support and apparently there is
> no way to fix the problem. Now I have a couple of questions: the use
> of tg3 driver without a firmware expose the NIC to some risks or not?
> And is there any chance to have the PCI IDs added back to tg3 module?
> I do not want to modify and recompile the module at every version
> bump.
> 
> Thanks for the support :)

That's the plan.  It's on my TODO list to add support back in.

> --
> Best regards,
> Francesco Piccinno
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:25:15 -0700
> > "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@...adcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0700, Florian Mickler wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42132 Francesco wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I have a notebook (HP TC4400) which has a BCM5750 ethernet card inside. The
> >> > > ouput of lspci is:
> >> > >
> >> > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5750M
> >> > > Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:167c]
> >> > >
> >> > > Commit 67b284d476bcb3d100e946da23d6cf9acfd0465c removed the support for this
> >> > > device. I wish to have the support for this network card back again. Thanks!
> >>
> >> Hi Florian. ??Are you experiencing the same problem? ??We found that
> >> Francesco's problem was that the firmware of his device was missing. ??Do
> >> you see :
> >>
> >> eth0: No firmware running
> >>
> >> messages?
> >>
> >
> > Hi Matt!
> > No, I was just browsing the regression list and found this entry but
> > couldn't associate any action with it.
> >
> > This clears that up, thanks for the information and I will close this
> > bug.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Flo
> >
> 

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