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From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org>
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Subject: RE: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver,
	device polling issues :-((]
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From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete@he.iki.fi]=20
>=20
> Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>=20
>> I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people =
are
>> (not) having success.  As em(4) supports an entire family of =
products,
>> rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have quirks or =
other
>> gotchas the driver needs to address.  It certainly wouldn't be the =
first
>> occurance of revision-specific bugs.
>
> I would also not discount motherboard / PCI speed related issues.

Indeed.  I've only had a few replies and already have opposing reports.  =
I'm
volunteering to collect the data, but I'll have to talk to someone in a
position to do code work about what data should be tracked.