Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:34:04 +0200 From: "Szymon Kozak" <kozak.szymon@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic in 8-CURRENT / BGE hang Message-ID: <289d9e390710261334v45b0b3d6te5ead0d56263532f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <289d9e390710261332l7739cc81t829ad56b63e0c90@mail.gmail.com> References: <4712A4A8.7080503@FreeBSD.org> <200710241910.28201.joao@matik.com.br> <200710241904.47701.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200710251102.33088.joao@matik.com.br> <289d9e390710261332l7739cc81t829ad56b63e0c90@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/25/07, JoaoBR <joao@matik.com.br> wrote: > > The main goal of the two technologies is the same, i.e., out-of-band > > server management. Both use Remote Management and Control Protocol > > (RMCP) for the network protocol but ASF is implemented on NIC > > firmware level while IPMI is implemented on baseboard management > > controller (BMC). Now BCM57xx firmware has built-in ASF stack and > > the interface can be shared with BMC. If there is a BMC on-board and > > network controller is shared, obviously you cannot just reset the > > controller, etc. You have to 'tell' the firmware that you are about > > to do critical things, such as reset, start, stop, link negotiation, > > etc, so that it can communicate with BMC beforehand. If you turn on > > hw.bge.allow_asf, it does just that. Unfortunately, it does not work > > for all systems in the real world because they are not created equal, > > e.g., different spec. revisions, hardware implementations, firmware, > > BIOS, etc. Basically some system fails *without* it while some > > system fails *with* it. Hence, the tunable was necessary. At least, > > that is how I understand it. > > > thank you, that was great > > but would really not harm to put something about resumed into the man page > Hello, I have the same problem, but change value to hw.bge.allow_asf="0" doesn't work for me. I have Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet in my ThinkPad R61. Dmesg from FreeBSD-STABLE shows: bge0: <Broadcom BCM5754/5787 A2, ASIC rev. 0xb002> mem 0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 Here is complete dmesg: http://slane.pl/tmp/dmesg.txt Anybody know what's wrong?
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