[ipxe-devel] [PATCH 3/3] [tg3] Use PCI writes instead of writel() in tg3_transmit()

Kevin Tran ktran at broadcom.com
Thu Aug 23 16:37:06 UTC 2012


Hi Cody,
Can you confirm that the latest changes work for you?

Thanks!
Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Cody Cutler [mailto:ccutler at cs.utah.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:14 AM
To: Kevin Tran
Cc: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] [PATCH 3/3] [tg3] Use PCI writes instead of writel() in tg3_transmit()

ktran at broadcom.com (Kevin Tran) - Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:05:15PM +0000
> Hi Cody,
> A few months ago, we have made a lot of fixes in tg3 driver.    There
> are a lot of flaw in the initialization sequences. The issues you
> found are *just* some of them.   We have done a lot of testing with a
> lot of NICs (BCM5719, BCM5720, BCM5764, etc...).  We could install OS 
> with iSCSI boot path and boot from it.  We also installed OS with PXE
> as well.   We are planning to submit all of these changes shortly.

Great, thanks!

Perhaps next time I will ask if others are working on problem x before I pick it up myself...





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