On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 15:11 +0530, Siva Reddy Kallam wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Berend De Schouwer > <berend.de.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 11:51 +0530, Siva Reddy Kallam wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can you please share below details? > > > 1) Model and Manufacturer of the system > > > 2) Linux distro/kernel used? > > > > 4.13.3 gets a little further, but after some more data is > > transferred > > the tg3 driver still crashes. This is unfortunately before I've > > got a > > writeable filesystem. > > > > The last line is: > > tg3 0000:01:00.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4c00 enable_bit=2 > > > > I've got some ideas to get the full dmesg. > > > > As with the other kernels it works OK on 1Gbps, but not slower > > switches. > > I am suspecting with link aware mode, the clock speed could be slow > and boot code does not > complete within the expected time with lower link speeds. So, > Providing a patch to override clock. > Can you please try with attached debug patch and provide us the > feedback with 100M link? > If it solves this issue, we will work on proper changes.
This does work on 4.13.3 and PXE for me. I've tested on 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps and 10 Mbps. I've done some preliminary testing (eg. large file copies.)
