[PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc8610_hpcd: use ULI526X driver for on-board ethernet

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 30 03:52:03 EST 2008


On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>  floating around (and also included in the
> BSP), which tries to heal the situation, though the ethernet is still
> unusable. Practically it takes ages to mount NFS filesystem:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k init
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 OK
> nfs: server 10.0.0.2 not responding, still trying
>
> So, instead of trying to add uli526x functionality into TULIP driver
> (which is already bloated enough), I fixed existing ULI526X driver
> and now it works perfectly well here.

I'm assuming patches that fix the uli526x driver have been accepted by  
jeff.

- k



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