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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:51:04 +0900
From:      Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:18:19PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:53:51PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:40:58PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:19 -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> >> >> [...]
> >> >> >> miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
> >> >> >> rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
> >> >> >> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
> >> >> >> rlphy1: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> >> >> > [...]---big-snip--8<---
> >> >> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 1
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> As you can see, it looks much the same. I have no idea what
> >> >> >> I should do to better inform the driver/kernel how to better
> >> >> >> handle it. Or is it the driver, itself?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Thank you again, for your thoughtful response.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> --Chris
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I think the way to fix a phy that responds at all addresses is to set a
> >> >> > hint in loader.conf masking out the ones that aren't real, like so:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >  hint.miibus.0.phymask="1"
> >> >> >
> >> >> > You might be able to set ="0x00000001" to make it more clear it's a
> >> >> > bitmask, but I'm not sure of that.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you very much for the hint. I'll give it a shot.
> >> >> Any idea why this is happening? I have 4 other MB's using the Nvidia
> >> >> chipset, and the nfe(4) driver. But they don't respond this way.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > If some nfe(4) variants badly behave in probing stage, this should
> >> > be handled by driver.  We already have too many hints and tunables
> >> > and I don't think most users know that.  In addition, adding
> >> > additional NIC may change miibus instance number.
> >> >
> >> > Could you show me the output of 'kenv | grep smbios'?
> >> Yes, of course.
> >>
> >> Here it is:
> >>
> >> smbios.bios.reldate="11/22/2010"
> >> smbios.bios.vendor="American Megatrends Inc."
> >> smbios.bios.version="V2.7"
> >> smbios.chassis.maker="MSI"
> >> smbios.chassis.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> >> smbios.chassis.tag="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> >> smbios.chassis.version="2.0"
> >> smbios.memory.enabled="2097152"
> >> smbios.planar.maker="MSI"
> >> smbios.planar.product="K9N6PGM2-V2 (MS-7309)"
> >> smbios.planar.serial="To be filled by O.E.M."
> >> smbios.planar.version="2.0"
> >> smbios.socket.enabled="1"
> >> smbios.socket.populated="1"
> >> smbios.system.maker="MSI"
> >> smbios.system.product="MS-7309"
> >> smbios.system.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> >> smbios.system.uuid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-406186cd4497"
> >> smbios.system.version="2.0"
> >> smbios.version="2.6"
> >>
> >> Hope this helps, and thank you for all your time, and trouble.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the info. Try attached patch and let me know how it
> > works.  Make sure to remove the hint(hint.miibus.0.phymask="1")
> > set in loader.conf before testing it.
> 
> Hello, and thanks for all the attention.
> Sorry for the delay. I chose to perform a dump(8) before attempting
> the KERn rebuild with the patch. But the kernel threw a read error
> message on one of the drives. So I had to sort out the problem on
> the drive before I could complete the dump. Then, of course I had
> to reslice, and format another drive to replace the ailing one,
> before I could perform a restore(8), and start the nfe patch; build
> && install kernel. Weird; the drive had only a few hours on it.
> Well, anyway. The patch applied cleanly. So I built, and installed
> a new kernel with it. X's out the hint.miibus.0.phymask="0x00000001"
> in loader.conf(5), and bounced the box. Bad news:
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 30
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 29
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 28
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 27
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 26
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 25
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 24
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 23
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 22
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 21
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 20
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 19
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 18
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 17
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 16
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 15
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 14
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 13
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 12
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 11
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 10
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 9
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 8
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 7
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 6
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 5
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 4
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 3
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 2
> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 1
> 
> Just as before. In case it should make any difference; I'm
> going to attach my copy of src/sys/dev/nfe/if_nfe.c in case
> there are any differences in mine, that do not coincide with
> your version/copy (I'm on releng_9 - 9.2-STABLE)
> 
> FreeBSD demon0 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #0 r263756M:
> Thu Apr  3 12:42:03 PDT 2014
> root@demon0:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEMON0  amd64
> 
> Best wishes, and thanks again.
> 

Oops, could you show me the output of "pciconf -lcbv"?



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