Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:37:51 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disable probing of bge1? Message-ID: <AANLkTim3GzjKvWcFJ%2BgmPSpA4rCcFRweTq9zF0TtyVLa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B9B3E34F-AE93-41AB-A5F4-732B60A7F35A@punkt.de> References: <B9B3E34F-AE93-41AB-A5F4-732B60A7F35A@punkt.de>
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I just discovered a minor problem when updating some rather dated
> systems from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.x or 8.x.
>
> The servers are Fujitsu Technology Solutions (former Fujitsu-Siemens)
> RX100 S4. The current generation of the same system is RX100 S6, so this
> is two generations old. Some of them still run fine in our datacenter, though.
>
> While the S5 and S6 series features two gigabit ports and an additional
> network interface for out of band management (called iRMC, similar to HP's iLO),
> the S4 has only two gigabit ports and the iRMC interface is piggybacked to
> one of them.
>
> In our standard setup we disable the first interface in the BIOS. If you do this,
> the physical port is available as a dedicated management interface to the iRMC
> and only the second IF is probed by FreeBSD 6.x as bge0.
>
> Now I try to PXE boot an identically configured system via the remote serial
> console with FreeBSD 7. Everything runs fine, until the kernel probes the
> network interfaces. The last thing I see are messages about successful
> probing of both bge0 and bge1 and then my remote management connection
> and my console are gone.
>
> I have to reset the BMC by literally pulling the power to get the iRMC back.
>
> Is it possible to use some device.hints entry to prohibit the probing of bge1?
> I think that would be the easiest solution to the problem? Other suggestions
> are of course welcome. I can provide more config details and dmesg output
> if needed.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
Maybe this loader tunable will help:
hw.bge.allow_asf
Allow the ASF feature for cooperating with IPMI. Can cause sys‐
tem lockup problems on a small number of systems. Disabled by
default.
Cheers
Tom
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