SRU Justification:
Impact: The current tg3 driver in 12.04 does not support this new NIC. To have installer support in the next point release (12.04.3) we need to backport some patches which were added after 3.8 into Raring.
Fix: Backport/cherry-pick of a set of 5 patches. The first one adds basic infrastructure but was not enough to enable the NIC. Number two would do that. The remaining three patches are very small bug fixes which seemed to be related to enabling the new hardware.
Testcase: Boot Raring kernel on OCP v3 hardware. The current driver will not support the network card. With those patches applied it was working.
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The AMD OCP v3 "Roadrunner" uses the broadcom (bcm) 5725 netextreme card. 12.04 LTS does not recognize the card (in the PCI ID list or the tg3 kernel module). The PCI ID is 14e4:1643.
My next plan is to try newer point relese, iterim release, and daily build.
I've not check kernel.org to see if this PCI ID is in the tg3 driver.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version k3.8.0-23-generic.
AplayDevices:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: dduffey 2593 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Generic'/'HD-Audio Generic at 0xff440000 irq 108'
Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100200'
Controls : 8
Simple ctrls : 2
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=d756e4f6-3e85-4b70-b6cb-6e870a559113
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
IwConfig:
eth10 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
MachineType: empty empty
MarkForUpload: True
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-23-generic root=UUID=1f94973e-6e09-4aa3-825c-cf936384e25b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34+lp1178899v1-generic 3.8.11
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-23-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-23-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.79.4
RfKill:
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
dmi.bios.date: 03/04/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.6.5
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: S8237
dmi.board.vendor: TYAN
dmi.board.version: empty
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: empty
dmi.chassis.type: 28
dmi.chassis.vendor: empty
dmi.chassis.version: empty
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.5:bd03/04/2013:svnempty:pnempty:pvrempty:rvnTYAN:rnS8237:rvrempty:cvnempty:ct28:cvrempty:
dmi.product.name: empty
dmi.product.version: empty
dmi.sys.vendor: empty
This device DOES show up w/ Saucey daily build, so will test 12.04.2 next.