Comment 8 for bug 1677297

> It's not unrelated. That is the actusl phy on the SDP.

and the same for REPs? our target cert platform?

> ________________________________________
> From: Manoj Iyer [<email address hidden>]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:11 PM
> To: Timur Tabi
> Cc: Manoj Iyer; Andrew Cloke; David Douglas; <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: Zesty use qcom_emac instead of msm_emac.
>
> That is hard to SRU, we don't want to be adding unrelated modules to DI.
>
> With at803x loaded
> ==================
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
> Linux ubuntu 4.10.0-10-generic #13~ubunturc2+build.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 28
> 23:33:09 UTC 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep at803x
> at803x
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep qcom
> qcom_emac 40960 0
> ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 8c:fd:f0:06:90:cd
> inet addr:10.228.66.102 Bcast:10.228.66.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>
> So clearly as a side effect of loading at803x qcom_emac is able to get an
> IP address. But I am afraid this is not something we can justify as an
> SRU.
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Timur Tabi wrote:
>
>> Assuming that you did back-port enough, then you should try loading
>> at803x.ko first. Technically, there is an erratum with that PHY that the
>> driver resolves, although I've never seen it make a difference until today.
>>
>> On 03/29/2017 04:50 PM, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>>> Timur,
>>>
>>> Based on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bandera/ubuntu-17.04/+bug/1657261 yes
>>> this was backported from 4.11 to 4.10 and commited to zesty and to xenial.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Timur Tabi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you back-port driver from 4.11?
>>>>
>>>> On 03/29/2017 03:55 PM, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a public bug to track the qcom_emac replacement for msm_emac. This
>>>>> is currently blocked because qcom_emac that is in Zesty is unable to get
>>>>> DHCP leases. Needs a fix from qti to the driver before we can sru the
>>>>> change. It is my understanding that once we sru the required patches we
>>>>> can request for a DI respin in zesty to pick up the updated kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1677297
>>>>>
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