Re: [linux-nics] e1000e: initialization breaks IPMI support on 80003ES2LAN

2016-02-17 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Emil, On 17/02/16 at 19:22 +, Tantilov, Emil S wrote: > >My understanding is that, during driver initialization, e1000e_reset() > >is called, which calls e1000_power_down_phy(), which breaks the BMC. > > e1000_power_down_phy() is only called in reset if the interface is down. > If you are

RE: [linux-nics] e1000e: initialization breaks IPMI support on 80003ES2LAN

2016-02-17 Thread Tantilov, Emil S
r, Jeffrey T >; e1000-de...@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [linux-nics] e1000e: initialization breaks IPMI support on >80003ES2LAN > >Hi, > >We have Intel 80003ES2LAN nics on SGI Altix XE310 servers (SuperMicro >Baseboard, with product name X7DGT). On those machines, one of

e1000e: initialization breaks IPMI support on 80003ES2LAN

2016-02-12 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, We have Intel 80003ES2LAN nics on SGI Altix XE310 servers (SuperMicro Baseboard, with product name X7DGT). On those machines, one of the NIC port is bridged internally with the BMC. It seems that during the e1000e driver initialization (at boot time), the NIC is reset, which causes the BMC to