From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 12:37:52 2011 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 E18D9106566B for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:37:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5B48FC1C for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk35 with SMTP id 35so1772083qyk.13 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:37:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=fxd+w6F68BAKqBM+WqM8EgoCUqFTA2qse44BKvbylTM=; b=G/ai2c59A53281YINVaCGpnkNNYygZnyisMvBtmza6K4HaTZoBD3S9BeSXb6k+qTzS 8plmMowWuasR3mn5X1hc5nzb9NzOuU7VH+fnoWcZVMnL85TyIk2LSJ7PttrhNOldPFAs Upz55Prh+EF6YQGA9Cu4Sv9cllTqwT1yw2+hU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DVJshKhcHuqAvsuzGzmplv0pHB2S784rnH85kgWkWG2sgBG9Tk+RjSaoVxXWxOVSiu q42n02p7jbok1OYnNjDdp75jSrGpYV71wR1LtWLHSvHtjWTPyzCmsYwfYohQBQKFbT91 ilndzeVIks0t8R0hCEr5P33c4bgF5L/qVwebQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.96.200 with SMTP id i8mr2734159qcn.226.1299501471629; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:37:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.79.139 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 04:37:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:37:51 +0000 Message-ID: From: Tom Evans To: "Patrick M. Hausen" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Disable probing of bge1? 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: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:37:53 -0000 On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Patrick M. Hausen 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, th= ough. > > 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 t= o > 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 ser= ial > 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 ba= ck. > > 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 suggesti= ons > 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=E2= =80=90 tem lockup problems on a small number of systems. Disabled by default. Cheers Tom