Re: [TG3] Always load TSO firmware

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:56:05 +1100
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > OK, I've cross-checked with the Broadcom drivers and the problem seems
> > to be specific to 5705 A1 which is the chipset in question.
> >
> > The Broadcom drivers limit the number of rx descriptors to 63 while
> > tg3.c only limits it to 64.  It has been confirmed that lowering
> > the limit makes the problem go away.
> >
> > Here is the patch.
>
> Great work.
>
> Jeff, please push this around.  I think it's serious enough for
> 2.4.23-rcX personally.

Will do, though I first need to check and see if non-power-of-two has 
any implications in the implementation...
        Jeff