sungem on imac G5

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 18 11:04:30 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:30 +0100, Markus Demleitner wrote:
> Hi all,

> Now, I don't even know what a PHY is, really, and thus this cry for
> help:  Is there any way to perform a really deep, deep reset on the
> sungem device?  Is it just that Apple chose some not-quite-known
> PHY in the G5?

There is some weird thing in the Shasta chipset relative to the PHY
reset. I think the ethernet and firewire PHYs are reset by the same
line, we may be screwing up there 

/me checks Darwin code ...

Yes, there are all sort of weird things in there, I'll cook a patch and
post it for testing.

Ben.





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