Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>]

Hi!

> > Okay, this is probably other problem. When the bug hit, what are the 
> > symptoms?
> Total immediate crash without an oops. When the RX ring skbufs are allocated
> with GFP_DMA receives work, but any transmits from > 1GB cause a link
> down/link up (which is just about all of them). With GPF_DMA bounce
> buffers those start working too.
> 
> > > (Or the issue isn't fully understood yet, figuring out what breaks and 
> > > what
> > > doesn't was basically just trial and error :-/ )
> > 
> > Can you try the driver from broadcom? bcom4400, or how is it
> > called. Its extremely ugly, but might get this kind of stuff right...
> Tried that, it breaks with 4:4 and >1GB in exactly the same way :-)

You might want to report them, then look at diff between latest and
previous versions :-)))).
                                                                        Pavel
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