[ipxe-devel] Problem with TG3 driver

[Brandon Penglase]

Ian,
	When did you grab iPXE?  There were some recent driver updates
from Broadcom on the TG3 driver. I'd be curious to know if this still
happens for you with the newest version of iPXE. They were incorporated
with this update:
https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/a05871d89ad9b94248049c66f238092fc896e9aa


	Brandon Penglase


On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:54:09 +0930 Ian Dall
<ian at beware.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:14 -0400, an unknown sender wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >      I've been trying to get a Dell Optiplex FX160 to boot with
> > iPXE via USB flash drive. While booting via chainload does work, we
> > do not have PXE boot enabled on all of our subnets, so it is handy
> > to have a flash drive to boot from.
> >      The FX160 has a Broadcom NetXTreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet
> > PCIe (14e4:1684[1028:0281]), according to HDT from Syslinux. I
> > would have an issue that when I would boot the machine, it would
> > hang trying to get a DHCP address. When I used Git Biesect, it
> > narrowed it down to the tg3 driver:
> 
> I can confirm this, for a SMC PCI-X card 173b:03e9
> 
>         # lspci -vs 1:d.0
>         01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Altima (nee Broadcom) AC1001
>         Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
>         	Subsystem: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] Device
> 9562 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
>         	Memory at fc9f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device
>         	Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>         	Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
>         	Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable-
> 64bit+ Kernel driver in use: tg3
>         	Kernel modules: tg3
> 
> It seems to be hanging in dma test. Reverting to the old tg3 driver
> works for me as well.
> 
> Regards,
> Ian
> 
> -- 
> Ian Dall <ian at beware.dropbear.id.au>
> 
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