Re: tg3 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

["Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:13:55PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 22:06 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux
> > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware.  In the
> > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series
> > 2.6.32.y.
> > 
> > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support,
> > but there are so many interrelated changes to tg3 since 2.6.32 that
> > this seems to be impossible.  So I've prepared a backport of tg3 from
> > Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
> > 
> >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/debian-linux.git netdev-test
> > 
> > The kernel configuration files we use are at
> > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/> (note, this site
> > will be unavailable for the next few hours).
> > 
> > We would appreciate any help Broadcom can provide in testing this, and
> > any advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
> 
> Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported
> drivers can now be found at:
> 
>     http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
> 
> I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will
> have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away).
> 
> Ben.

Hi Ben.  I'm going over the changes right now, and it looks like there
are a lot of critical fixes that are missing.  Standby and I'll try to
generate a list of patches to include.