On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:23:09PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Dienstag 05 September 2006 19:58 schrieb Larry Finger: > > Based on user reports and my own experiences, the current problems with > > NETDEV WATCHDOG tx timeouts, and the device just falling over do not happen > > when periodic work is not preemptible. These problems seem to affect > > BCM4306 rev 2 & 3 chips.
> I have a BCM4306 rev 3, running with linux-2.6.17.x and have none of these > problems. Larry, IIRC your hardware is a 0x812 rev 4. This core will load a different microcode (bcm43xx_microcode4.fw) than all later core revisions. (I guess the pci revision number isn't usefull here.) Those old microcodes 2 and 4 seem to have a different instruction set in their firmware than later ones. So I'm afraid that those old bcm43xx cores are based on a different microprocessor. And if they are really based on a different microprocessor then their drivers will probably have different problems. But this theory will only fit if your problems are limited to the 0x812 rev2/rev4 world. Just my $0.02. Martin _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
