Hi, On 16 Aug 2012, at 10:13, Marius Strobl wrote:
> I'm working on adding support to mii(4) for powering down PHYs when > the network interface is down, but as you have noticed this non- > trivial to get right, i.e. so they actually come out of power down > mode again when bringing up the interface regardless of the media > options used. We also clearly need a way to disable this behavior > for the known-broken PHYs. Please be very careful in case the PHY is carrying a piggy-backed IPMI NIC too. > This is orthogonal to the 1 and 10 Gigabit Intel Ethernet drivers > so as these don't take advantage of mii(4). Some time ago someone > posted patches to net@ implementing/activating powering down the > PHYs when these interfaces are down though. > > Marius -- Bob Bishop [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
