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Re: 2.6.9-rc1-bk11+ and 2.6.9-rc1-mm3,4 r8169: freeze during boot (FIX i

To: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-bk11+ and 2.6.9-rc1-mm3,4 r8169: freeze during boot (FIX included)
From: Jon Mason <jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:20:16 -0500
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> Jon, if your ppc64 box offers 64 bits wide PCI slots, it would be nice if
> you could ttry 2.6.9-rc2-bkX, apply
> http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/r8169-xx0.patch
> and report the content of the "Config2" line in the logs of the kernel.

Here is the info you requested:

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.6LK loaded
eth8: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth8: RTL8169 at 0xa0000000800b7000, 00:40:f4:96:fc:3f, IRQ 131
r8169: eth8: Config2 = 0x01
r8169: eth8: link up

My p630 has 64bit PCI-X slots, but my r8169 adapter is a 32bit adapter.  See 
lspci output below (with a 64bit PCI-X e1000 adapter as a comparison).
.....
0001:61:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0289
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 144, IRQ 122
        Memory at cc100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=cc000000]
        Memory at cc040000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        I/O ports at 12ec00 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at 00040000 [disabled]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [e4]      Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled 
Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
......
0002:01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 74, IRQ 131
        I/O ports at 20fc00 [size=e0000000]
        Memory at e0020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at 00020000 [disabled]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2


I think my AMD64 system at home has a 64bit integrated adapter, as the 
performance on it is 2.5x faster (either that or r8169 and ppc don't play 
well together).  I will verify this when I get home.

-- 
Jon Mason
jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx

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