On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Anton Yurchenko wrote:
> Well the gigabit Broadcom Tigon3 chipset has very good support, I`d even
> say probably even better then Intel e1000, and even performs better. In
> a source driver tg3.
Well, when the driver doesn't lock up your system, anyway[1]. In Mr.
Garzik's defense, though, tg3 is a LOT better[2] than Broadcom's driver
for the same chipset (bcm5700), which has problems with heavy loads. The
summary I've heard is that the hardware sucks, and either driver has to
compensate for that fact. But, IANAKH (kernel hacker); I'm just
regurgitating what I've read on linux-poweredge[3], where this has been a
popular issue, due to Dell putting the Tigon3 chipset on some PowerEdge
motherboards.
Just thought I'd chime in.
Jima
1. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79997
2. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.dell.poweredge/3000
3. http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
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