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Date:      Fri, 29 May 2009 20:16:18 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Henri-Pierre Charles <hpcharles@gmail.com>
Cc:        Jeff Blank <jb000003@mr-happy.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bge problems under 7.2-PRERELEASE
Message-ID:  <20090529181618.GF72047@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <4734a3ed0905291102m3b1474adk50eb8bcf6712a742@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20090420204637.GA1236@mr-happy.com> <20090421184924.GA36542@alchemy.franken.de> <20090421193129.GA4869@mr-happy.com> <20090421195510.GC33994@alchemy.franken.de> <20090422150612.GA1231@mr-happy.com> <20090423171949.GE50221@alchemy.franken.de> <20090423200507.GA1246@mr-happy.com> <4734a3ed0905291102m3b1474adk50eb8bcf6712a742@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:02:42PM +0200, Henri-Pierre Charles wrote:
> Hello Guys
> 
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Jeff Blank <jb000003@mr-happy.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:19:49PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> >> So in combination with
> >> the low number of problem reports this really doesn't
> >> look like a generic problem of this Broadcom hardware
> >> or bge(4) and I just can suggest to disable MSI by
> >> setting the hw.pci.enable_msi tuneable to 0 for now.
> >
> > Great, this does the trick, and I'm now running today's RELENG_7.
> > Thanks for your help, and let me know if ever you'd like me to help
> > test possible fixes.
> 
> I have the same computer (Dell optiplex 740) but the sysctl turnaround
> doesn't work, the bge interface seem up but no interruptions.
> 
> I have to download / recompile with sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c rev
> 1.198.2.13 and sys/dev/pci/pci.c rev 1.355.2.6
> 
> Is there anything else to try ?

You need to set hw.pci.enable_msi in the loader f.e. via
loader.conf rather than the corresponding sysctl as the
latter has no effect during boot.

Marius




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