Intel I350 mini-PCIe card (igb) on Mirabox (mvebu / Armada 370)

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Willy Tarreau,

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:53:44 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > Am I correct, or are other patches needed, or are remaining problems
> > not solved by these two fixes?
> 
> There's still the older issue I got with trying to load a 2-port based
> igb card on the xp-gp, the code says that hwirq 0xffffffe4 is invalid
> and cannot be enabled and after that it panics. I recall having debugged
> this one a few months ago, and finding something like ffffffe4 == -ENOSPC
> which was returned by one of the inner functions. Let's put that aside
> for a moment though, but I would appreciate it if you find the time to
> try your igb NIC on your XPGP in 3.14 to see if you get the same result.

See my second e-mail: this is due to improperly casting a signed value
into a unsigned value.

I currently have the igb NIC in my Armada XP DB, and I've reported a
panic :-)

Thomas
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