Re: kernel BUG at tg3.c:1557

Roland Kuhn (rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de)
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:33:42 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:10:31 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Since the insertion of a dummy write solved the problem, I would say it's
> the chipset's PCI reordering, which is malfunctioning in the 2466.
>
> Roland can you retry using this patch? The difference from
> my previous one is that when we use the indirect register
> writing of the mailbox registers, we offset into the GRCMBOX
> area of the chip registers.
>
> This seems to be how Broadcom's driver does indirect accesses
> to mailbox registers.
>
Will try in a minute. Do I understand it correctly, that only the mailbox
writes must be done this way? And how do the pci_write_config_dword()
functions ensure the right ordering? (Sorry, it was late yesterday and I
somehow didn't find the definition of pci_*_config_*().)

Ciao,
Roland

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