From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 11:49:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B57C1065676 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 11:49:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9BE8FC14 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 11:49:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [82.95.250.254]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4UBnO1N009138; Fri, 30 May 2008 13:49:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.14.2/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m4UBnOsF052138; Fri, 30 May 2008 13:49:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4UBnO2I052137; Fri, 30 May 2008 13:49:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:49:24 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de Message-ID: <20080530114924.GB52107@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20080529205558.d2b064bf.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <200805301144.m4UBihd2002204@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200805301144.m4UBihd2002204@lurza.secnetix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Subject: Re: broken re(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 11:49:26 -0000 Quoting Oliver Fromme, who wrote on Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:44:43PM +0200 .. > Gerrit Kühn wrote: > > As Oliver already suggested, I will take out the controller and see what > > happens then. > > > > Talking about this controller: This is also the only board I am using with > > PCI cards (and thus with a PCI riser) at all. I remember vaguely that I > > had a few problems getting the controller to work in the riser card when > > it put the system together. The riser has two ports, and the controller > > would only work in the upper one afaicr. > > That rings a bell ... > > I remember reports of riser cards that apparently changed > the timing on the PCI bus so they were only marginally > compliant with the spec, or maybe not even that anymore. > > If you try to remove the controller, please also remove > the riser card. It could well be that it's causing > problems, especially if it's on the same PCI bus as the > onboard re(4) interfaces. > > There are various kinds of riser cards (passive, active, > with fixed IRQs, or with jumpers, and so on). For a > related discussion see this one, for example: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/24/39 > > Typing "pci riser card jumper" in Google will give you > many more pages with interesting (or frightening) stuff > to read. Well, if you know how the PCI bus electrically works this kind of problem is hardly a surprise ;-) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org