On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:13:55PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 22:06 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux > > > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the > > > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series > > > 2.6.32.y. > > > > > > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support, > > > but there are so many interrelated changes to tg3 since 2.6.32 that > > > this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of tg3 from > > > Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch: > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/debian-linux.git > > > netdev-test > > > > > > The kernel configuration files we use are at > > > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/> (note, this site > > > will be unavailable for the next few hours). > > > > > > We would appreciate any help Broadcom can provide in testing this, and > > > any advice on changes that should be added or reverted. > > > > Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported > > drivers can now be found at: > > > > http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/ > > > > I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will > > have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away). > > > > Ben. > > Hi Ben. I'm going over the changes right now, and it looks like there > are a lot of critical fixes that are missing. Standby and I'll try to > generate a list of patches to include.
Oh. Never mind. I didn't realize 57765 and later devices are not enabled. Here are a list of patches you might want to apply that affect the rest of the devices: commit fe234f0e5cbb880792d2d1ac0743cf8c07e9dde3 tg3: Fix tg3_poll_controller() passing wrong pointer to tg3_interrupt() commit 28b041139e344ecd0f144d6205b004ae354cfa1e net: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl(). commit 2ffcc981d823a0518c627ca22d51ef72d0b7ca9a tg3: Set tx bug flags for more devices commit 34eea5ac214353ccd93ef7dd8dbd10aed87f5f46 tg3: Only allow phy ioctls while netif_running commit 01c3a3920f9f78866420b2004602944fca45083a tg3: Fix NVRAM selftest commit aba49f2421d5287692aee961ab4ce2981fdf4939 tg3: Disable MAC loopback test for CPMU devices commit 49692ca1e686970bac5726c3fd925427bb3ae89d tg3: Fix loopback tests -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110603212453.gb15...@mcarlson.broadcom.com