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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 10 May 2012 15:49, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
>>> --- 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 :/

Then please revert that bit :-)

>> 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.

I let you do that?