Re: [Freeipmi-devel] E1000 patch and other stuff

[Albert Chu]

Hey AB, 

Sorry, there were atleast 4 threads going on about this.  I got lost in
the mess.  We tried the comment out "e1000_suspend" fix, and it worked.
 We released an updated kernel/driver on Thunder, and Mike Miller says
he hasn't had an power control problems since the update.  

Yesterday I got the chance to speak to one of the Intel guys who knows a
lot more about the e1000 driver.  He says Wake On Lan is a very funky
"state" in the e1000 NIC, and he wouldn't be surprised if the card trys
to filter everything but Wake-On-Lan Magic Packets (when the load is
high, I suppose).

In my opinion (Jim, Robin, what are your thoughts??):

halting problem - this is now Intel's problem.  They have to make a
driver fix.  Perhaps adding some "IPMI power control" flag, so they know
now to go into wake on lan mode or something.

"rmmod e1000" - this is a redhat problem, that Ben should address.

I have looked at both of these problems on and off.  But I am
concentrating on FreeIPMI now.

Al

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Albert Chu
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Monday, February 16, 2004 4:02 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] E1000 patch and other stuff

> Al,
> ,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
> | 3) I still cannot get the halting problem or "rmmod e1000" 
> problem to
> | occur on tdev.  Thus, raising my suspicions of a race or scalability
> | problem, that is the "real bug" ...
> `----
> - Is this bug fixed?
> - What is the priority level?
> - Who is following up?
> 
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