Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:09:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:09:46 -0500 Received: from smtp3.cern.ch ([137.138.131.164]:24801 "EHLO smtp3.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:09:34 -0500 To: Jason Lunz Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters In-Reply-To: <3C6D07B9.596AD49E@mandrakesoft.com> <20020215150342.GA4347@trellisinc.com> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 26 Feb 2002 21:09:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jason Lunz's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:03:42 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jason Lunz writes: > In mlist.linux-kernel, you wrote: > > Cuz the driver is a piece of crap, and BroadCom isn't interested in > > working with the open source community to fix up the issues. > > Can you elaborate? What are the issues? I've found the broadcomm driver > to be more robust than the in-kernel one for acenic cards. With acenic, > I've had a null-pointer deref on SMP and other lockups where I wasn't > lucky enough to get an oops. Ehm, it would be nice to get some more details on this. Few people have reported problems with the acenic driver for a long time, except for certain highmem configs and a problem with very old Tigon I cards. Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/