On 1/8/2011 3:07 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > >> and, amusingly, from a stock 2.6.32.27 kernel that exhibits the problem, >> I plugged in a PCI NIC and *both* interfaces came up happy. :o/ One >> might suspect that PCNet32 now assumes some level of initialization that >> isn't being done in the platform code, and lucks out if a more >> thoroughly paranoid driver gets loaded first. > Are you seeing the problem with a system controller other than the > Bonito? That would be somewhat alarming, though easier to fix. > > With the Bonito I'd have assumed it was some low-level PCI code rewrite > -- that seem to keep happening over and over again -- that missed a bit in > the Bonito driver or the driver altogether. With the Bonito core cards > limited to the MIPS 20Kc core and some exotic (for the Malta) QED CPU > options that would be no surprise at all to me. I don't think it's a "classic" Bonito, YAMON calls out: MIPS SOC-it 101 OCP / 1.3 SDR-FW-1:1 Regards, Kevin K.