On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 12:16:44PM -0500, elijah wright wrote: > > > - both the de4x5 and the tulip drivers fail to work with many > > > DECChip-based ethernet cards in the 2.4.2x series alpha kernels; > > > bug #228654. > > Both of these sound like reasonable candidates for errata if they're not > > fixed, and not release blockers. Do you want them in the errata? > does this bug affect the onboard tulip ethernet that comes with most of > the alpha hardware? if so, its a real bad bug. It affects many (I don't know if we can say most) onboard tulip chips that came with alphas. There are actually a wide range of chips covered by the tulip and de4x5 drivers that were distributed by Digital; I don't know yet if there's a clear pattern of which chips are affected, or if the problem has more to do with the associated hardware (such as PCI configuration and chipsets). It is a very bad bug, but I don't know that it's feasible to do much about it in the 2.4 kernel series in time for sarge. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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