Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6 vs 2.4: pxe booting system won't restart | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:16:33 +0000 |
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On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 20:36, Brian Jackson wrote: > > Remove the kernel code that powers down the ethernet chip. If that works > > Yay, looks like this bit near line 1950 of via-rhine.c: > /* Hit power state D3 (sleep) */ > writeb(readb(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW); > > I removed that, and it works like a charm now. Thank you very much.
Excellent - its as I thought - the BIOS isn't bringing the chip out of powersave for PXE but assumes it is live. Possibly one for a module option but really it is a BIOS bug, although a very minor and easy to understand how it got missed one
Alan
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