Hi,

I'm currently running the 3.0.36 kernel on custom HW using an MPC8347 PPC 
SOC with an Intel RC82540EP gigabit ethernet controller that we're talking 
to with the e1000 driver.  We're seeing a lot of problems with memory (bad 
page table entries, out-of-memory panics, etc.) when we take the interface 
down and back up with ifconfig.

I'm suspicious that our problem is due to using an old driver that has 
memory issues.  We're not in a position to move forward on kernel versions 
right now, so I have a couple of questions I hope you can answer.

1) Does the IGB driver support the RC82540EP?  I'm not finding any obvious 
references to the part in .../drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb in the 3.9 
tree.
2) If it does, how bad would it be to try and backport to the 3.0.36 
kernel?

Thanks.

Bruce

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