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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 13:56:51 -0400
To: lyndon@orthanc.ca, 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ether82563.c and i82574 chips
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On Sun May 15 13:25:35 EDT 2011, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> The driver says this about the '574:
>
> // case 0x10d3: /* l */ // type = i82574; /* never heard of it */ //
> break;
>
> I've heard of it: my Asus Z8NA-D6C motherboard has one.  Is there any
> history I should know about before I light this up in the driver?

i have also heard of it, as i wrote the original code and am currently
typing this on a terminal with 2x 82574 lom chips.

i have no idea why that was commented out.

you may have better luck with 82563 from 9atom.  it supports a
more hardware than the one in the distribution, and works around
some intel-mb bugs.

- erik