Re: TG3 fix for slow switches (Was: TG3 driver failure on HP 16-way)

[Grant Grundler <iod00d@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:22:37AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> > Michael,
> > Peter bounced this email to me after we talked about issues he was
> > having with the rx8620 (HP 16-way ia64, sx1000 chipset) "IOX Core LAN".
> > It sounded like the same problem I tracked down with rx8620 IOX Core LAN
> > in March.  Here is the summary :
> > 
> > | In May, 2004,  tg3 v3.4 changed how MAC_LED_CTRL (0x40c) was getting
> > | programmed and how to determine what to program into LED_CTRL. The new
> > | code trusted NIC_SRAM_DATA_CFG (0x00000b58) to indicate what to write
> > | to LED_CTRL and MII EXT_CTRL registers. On "IOX Core Lan", SRAM was
> > | saying MODE_MAC (0x0) and that doesn't work.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Grant, I'll chase this down and find a solution to this problem.

You mean you'll help find a way to reflash the onboard eeprom?

thanks,
grant