Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 cassini should support Saturn PHY without firmware patch Control: reassign -2 src:linux 3.2.46-1 Control: severity -2 important Control: tag -2 upstream patch Control: tag -2 - help
On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 15:44 +0200, Jose Andres Arias Velichko wrote: > Hi Ben! > > The patch you have sent has not worked for me with the default debian > 7.1 kernel sources (3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1): It has > been partially rejected by patch tool. > So I've have coded mostly the same you did, manually. (attaching my patch). Sorry, I mistakenly made that patch against the 3.2.y stable branch and not the Debian stable branch. Debian has a patch that changes the logging of firmware loader errors. > It worked with no problems on my Sun/Cassiny Quad Ethernet board. I > have not tried it with Linux 3.5, but I can confirm that the firmware > looks not essential for 100/1000. > I think this is a good workaround for the firmware problem. Since the driver can work without the firmware patch, the current failure is a bug, which I'm therefore assigning to the kernel. I'll submit the driver change upstream. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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