Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:37:45 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE Message-ID: <200703161537.47359.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200703161848.l2GIm3H8043252@lava.sentex.ca> References: <200703161430.42854.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200703161848.l2GIm3H8043252@lava.sentex.ca>
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On Friday 16 March 2007 02:46 pm, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 02:30 PM 3/16/2007, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >I have made bge(4) patch for -STABLE (sorry, not suitable for > >RELENG_6_2): > > > >http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/bge_releng6.diff > > > >I received few success reports but I need wider testing because > >changes are too big and there are two many BCM57xx variants out > >there. If it breaks anything, please let me know. Especially, I > >want to hear more about IPMI/ASF mode support, i.e., if it doesn't > >work but setting hw.bge.allow_asf=0 in /boot/loader.conf fixes the > >problem, definitely I want to know. > > Hi, > What sort of problems does the patch fix ? I have a name > server that sees the odd watchdog reset. Do you think this would > address that problem ? Its not that frequent, but it does happen. > > eg > > Feb 17 17:59:28 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > Feb 21 16:17:50 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > Feb 28 11:13:11 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > Mar 7 09:01:43 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > Mar 10 10:21:12 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > Mar 14 03:50:46 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting > > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5750 B1, ASIC rev. 0x4101> mem > 0xfe5f0000-0xfe5fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci4 > miibus1: <MII bus> on bge0 > brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, > 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:59:2b:06 It might fix your problem (i.e., we have some fixes for BCM5750 chipset family) but I am not so sure. Why don't you try it and tell me? ;-) Thanks, Jung-uk Kim
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