[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4447] add broadcom and libphy to get tg3 to work (#5567)

Thu May 10 15:49:09 CEST 2012

10.05.2012 16:36, Thierry Vignaud skrev:
+> On 10 May 2012 14:39,  <root at mageia.org> wrote:
+>> add broadcom and libphy to get tg3 to work (#5567)
+> 
+> (...)
+> 
+>> --- drakx/trunk/kernel/list_modules.pm	2012-05-10 11:41:43 UTC (rev 4446)
+>> +++ drakx/trunk/kernel/list_modules.pm	2012-05-10 12:39:16 UTC (rev 4447)
+>> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
+>>        qw(myri_sbus myri10ge netxen_nic ns83820 pch_gbe qla3xxx r8169 s2io
+>> sfc sxg_nic),
+>>        qw(sis190 sk98lin skge sky2 slicoss spidernet stmmac tehuti tg3
+>> via-velocity virtio_net vxge yellowfin),
+>>        qw(bcm5820 bcm5700), #- encrypted
+>> +      qw(broadcom libphy), # needed to get tg3 working
+> 
+> First we already had libphy.ko b/c it's a dep of other modules we have.
+
+
+Indeed, I somehow missed it when I checked the all.rdz contents :/
+
+> 
+> Second, I think this is not enough and that we should include most of
+> phy/*.ko* anyway.  Some other cards (using tg3 or another driver)
+> would need another PHY sub driver.
+> 
+
+Yep,
+I think that would be wise.
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+
+