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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:07:36 +0100
From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
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On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:41:13PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>    From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
>    Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:33:39 +0100
>    
>    You can buy bcm57xx based boards, where the chipset is nice but the driver
>    not really nice yet.
>    
> My tg3 driver sucks then right?  Could you send me a bug report?

As stated in the other mail to Jeff Garzik, I was talking about the bcm57xx
driver, _NOT_ about the new tg3.  Sorry for not making this clear in the
original mail.

> The hardware is not capable of doing it, due to bugs in the hw
> checksum implementation of the sk98 chipset.  They aren't being
> "slow" they just can't possibly implement it for you.

Ouch. Thanks for dropping me this note.

> David S. Miller

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