Hi,
In former days there always had been some problems with broadcom GBit Nics. So
I'd like to ask what patches for the tg3 are recommended for production use
with 2.4.19/2.4.20.
cheers.
Christian
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In former days there always had been some problems with broadcom GBit Nics. So
> I'd like to ask what patches for the tg3 are recommended for production use
> with 2.4.19/2.4.20.
Hi,
I have created a patch for 2.4.20 for the tg3 driver from Jeff
Garziks and David Millers tg3 1.4c driver which I'm hoping will be
in the next kernel.
The patch is at http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20/
Note that because of NAPI the 2.4.20 driver will not work with 2.4.19...
I have been using this driver now for 6 days without a lockup (4 days with
2.4.20 and 2 days before that with 2.4.21-pre4) and it has
been working great. With the stock 2.4.20 tg3 driver we wouldn't get past
36 hours without a lockup...
Regards
James Bourne
> cheers.
> Christian
--
James Bourne, Supervisor Data Centre Operations
Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB, CA
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca
"There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who
understand binary and those who don't."
On 24.02.2003 15:37 James Bourne wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In former days there always had been some problems with broadcom GBit Nics.
> So
> > I'd like to ask what patches for the tg3 are recommended for production use
>
> > with 2.4.19/2.4.20.
>
> Hi,
> I have created a patch for 2.4.20 for the tg3 driver from Jeff
> Garziks and David Millers tg3 1.4c driver which I'm hoping will be
> in the next kernel.
>
> The patch is at http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/2.4.20/
>
> Note that because of NAPI the 2.4.20 driver will not work with 2.4.19...
>
Hallo,
thanks, I'll try 'em out.
cheers.
Christian
P.S. 2.4.19 is not so important, as the other machine (needs xfs, and I'll
stay with 2.4.19) has no onboard tg3, but gets a e1000 instead.