Bug#488590: [hppa] blacklisting tg3 was needed to avoid kernel failure

[Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@luon.net>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:38:55AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > And in this case it's not even clear who's at fault. 
> > AFAIK the kernel will normally survive not being able to load firmware: 
> > the module will be loaded, but the device not enabled.
> 
> Not in this case, apparently!
> 
> I suppose if these tg3 cards are compatible with other architectures, moving
> one or both to an i386 would provide an interesting data point... are
> PCI cards usually expected to be portable between architectures?

Yeah. Only video cards are usually a bit problematic as they need their bios to
be run by the cpu, most other cards should just work.

  Sjoerd
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