Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:58:30 -0700 From: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com> To: "Sean Bruno" <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>, "pyunyh@gmail.com" <pyunyh@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "davidch@freebsd.org" <davidch@freebsd.org>, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: bce(4) with IPMI Message-ID: <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819385F366A48A@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <1318362745.2724.22.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1318018310.27029.10.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <20111007205254.GC11808@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <1318264942.1236.6.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <20111010174749.GA1781@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <1318271046.1236.11.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <20111010190609.GB1781@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <1318278905.1236.18.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <20111010204456.GD1781@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819385F3669A7D@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <1318356030.2724.11.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <20111011181219.GB5661@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <1318362745.2724.22.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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> Ran this on my Dell R410. I can clearly see that the tool is > "disabling" the MFW bit, and that the dell bios interface to the IPMI > controller/DRAC is impaired, however ... > > The system still thinks that the MFW bit is "ON" and proceeds normally > in this case. The code still fails to detect that MFW is disabled. > > In addition, the IPMI driver attaches to "something" and I can poke at > it via ipmitool. So, from the driver perspective, the attempt to detect > MFW enabled doesn't work as the chipset still thinks that its "on". > > I've commented out the code block that we're trying to work around in > the yahoo code base for now. I have an R210 and running the uxdiag command definitely disabled management firmware on my system: ===[root] ~ # dmesg | grep bce bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0)> mem 0xda000000-0xdbffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0 bce0: Ethernet address: b8:ac:6f:87:95:f1 bce0: ASIC (0x57092008); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.2.2); Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI) bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0)> mem 0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci2 miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1 bce1: Ethernet address: b8:ac:6f:87:95:f2 bce1: ASIC (0x57092008); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.2.2); Bufs (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI) bce0: Gigabit link up! bce0: Gigabit link up! bce1: Gigabit link up! bce1: Gigabit link up! ===[root] ~ # Dave
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