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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