Re: [Etherboot-developers] Driver probing twice in latest 5.1 cvs

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"Timothy Legge" <tim...@us...> writes:

> > Not enough detail.  What when is it getting probed?
> 
> Sorry.  I had boot from the floppy and hit the N for Network. (Also
> happened when I didn't hit N).  I noticed right away, that the screen
> looked weird.  The PC bios dump/info was not in the screen and there was
> no way the driver should spew enough info to get rid of it.

Ah.  So it would take a serial console to capture everything, and understand
what is going on...

> I thought first that the sundance_reset was getting called twice, but
> when I looked at the messages closely, it seems that the code is probing
> the nic twice.

Hmm.  I can't think of a normal case without errors where that should
happen.  When ever it retries it reprobes as to be as safe as possible.

And having a boot menu will get a reprobe to reinitialize the card.
 
> Not much more I can tell you on that one.  Try renaming the file you are
> tftping without updating the dhcpd.conf file and you shoud see two lots
> of probe/reset messages.

This later case is intended.

The sequence displayed should be:
probe
DHCP
TFTP (get an error)
reset
<abort> (and sleep one second)
(restart or give up depending on the compile options).

Eric