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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2013 15:42:24 +0900
From:      YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org>
Cc:        jdc@koitsu.org, gjb@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3
Message-ID:  <20130529064224.GB3042@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305281524010.1081@familysquires.net>
References:  <20130524044919.GA41292@icarus.home.lan> <20130524054720.GA1496@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20130524.162926.395058052118975996.hrs@allbsd.org> <20130524.163646.628115045676432731.hrs@allbsd.org> <20130526113841.GA1511@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20130527043923.GA1480@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305271258170.1096@familysquires.net> <20130528023300.GA3077@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305281524010.1081@familysquires.net>

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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 03:34:00PM -0400, Michael L. Squires wrote:
> Short answer:  it didn't work.

[...]

> Patch did not solve the problem on the home NAT box.  I'll try it on the

Hmm, I can't reproduce it on my box. I double checked every
possible controller initialization sequences in driver but couldn't
find a clue. Let you know if I manage to narrow down the issue.

> second 1U box at work tomorrow.
> 
> I applied the patch (see below) and recompiled/reinstalled world.
> 

Rebuilding kernel should be enough.

> root@familysquires:/usr/src/sys/dev/fxp # uname -a
> FreeBSD familysquires.net 8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE #54: Sun May 26 
> 22:56:19 EDT 2013     root@familysquires.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWGATE  
> i386
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 236 root          3584 May 28 10:28   ../
> -rw-r--r--  1 root         95366 May 28 10:28   if_fxp.c
> -rw-r--r--  1 root         94968 Mar 28 09:04   if_fxp.c.orig
> -rw-r--r--  1 root         15638 Mar 28 09:04   if_fxpreg.h
> -rw-r--r--  1 root          8717 Mar 28 09:04   if_fxpvar.h
> -rw-r--r--  1 root         23009 Mar 28 09:04   rcvbundl.h
> 
> One immediate difference in behavior is that without the modified rc.conf
> the box was unable to use ntp to the outside world; it eventually sync'd on
> my internal ntp server.  With the modified rc.conf the box immediately
> sync'd to an ntp server in the outside world.
> 

There is a side-effect of the rc.conf workaround. Parallel
detection may or may not work and generally can result in duplex
mismatch.



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