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 Message-ID: <20140407015104.GC3543@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <70cd5de109845e30fcb6516af7a6f9de.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> References: <20140331050002.GC1359@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <c0a800d2a15f205788ed9ce606c00637.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <20140401065842.GA1364@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <c73ef96319846b3da07db5785f48fb6a.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <1396384167.81853.210.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <41917a9e67d0f4519df4b55f3aa6ebe3.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <20140402003912.GA2938@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <3f97f5646629043fed5e34a77c9c2f3d.authenticated@ultimatedns.net> <20140402020803.GB2938@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <70cd5de109845e30fcb6516af7a6f9de.authenticated@ultimatedns.net>
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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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