Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> The patch below agaisnt 2.6.17-rc6 includes the following changes:
>
> commit 3072cc0aba3ac0c944e196a63c4154ca5746ec0b
>
> r8169: sync with vendor's driver
>
> - add several PCI ID for the PCI-E adapters ;
> - new identification strings ;
> - the RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_ defines have been renamed to closely match the
> out-of-tree driver. It makes the comparison less hairy ;
> - various magic ;
> - the PCI region for the device with PCI ID 0x8136 is guessed.
> Explanation: the in-kernel Linux driver is written to allow MM register
> accesses and avoid the IO tax. The relevant BAR register was found at
> base address 1 for the plain-old PCI 8169. User reported lspci show that
> it is found at base address 2 for the new Gigabit PCI-E 816{8/9}.
Despite the fact that the newer 8168 has been reported to only work with an
extra alignment (gross hack: s/NET_IP_ALIGN/8/), the serie seems otherwise
fine.
I'll submit an updated serie to correctly support the 8168.
--
Ueimor
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