Heiner Kallweit <heiner.kallw...@web.de> writes: > A number of Gigabyte boards from ~2009 have broken BIOS support, resulting in > the PHY > reporting an invalid PHY ID. Realtek / Gigabyte don't release errata > information, > therefore there's not much that can be done. In bugzilla.kernel.org you can > find > workarounds that helped for some users, else use the r8168 driver.
Why can't we add a quirk for the invalid IDs? Are they variable or just too many? Or colliding with some real PHY ID in use? If not, then I don't see why this problem can't be solved. Yes, yes, stealing IDs is bad. But our priority is making hardware work despite buggy firmware. And ALL firmware is buggy. After all, it's just software in a straitjacket. Bjørn
