[Xen-devel] dom0 forcedeth driver broken in recent xen 2.6.18.8 tree?

[Ward Vandewege <ward@xxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

I can't seem to get forcedeth nics working anymore with the latest 2.6.18.8
xen tree.

I'm using a supermicro h8dme board with dual onboard mcp55 nics:

00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3)
00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3)

The symptom I see is that the link never comes up on the interface. Dmesg
output:

May 27 15:06:58 kernel: eth0: no link during initialization.
May 27 15:06:58 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
May 27 15:07:00 kernel: Bridge firewalling registered
May 27 15:07:03 kernel: peth0: no link during initialization.
May 27 15:07:03 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): peth0: link is not ready
May 27 15:07:13 kernel: peth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
May 27 15:07:13 kernel: device peth0 entered promiscuous mode
May 27 15:07:13 kernel: audit(1243451233.462:2): dev=peth0 prom=256
old_prom=0 auid=4294967295

I've connected the nics to two different switches, same result. They work
fine under a Debian 2.6.29 kernel from backports.org.

I've tried Xen 3.2.3, Xen 3.3.1 and Xen 3.4.0 - same result for all three. 

When I put an intel nic in there, it works fine with all Xen versions.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
Ward.


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