Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:37:51 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disable probing of bge1? Message-ID: <AANLkTim3GzjKvWcFJ%2BgmPSpA4rCcFRweTq9zF0TtyVLa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <B9B3E34F-AE93-41AB-A5F4-732B60A7F35A@punkt.de> References: <B9B3E34F-AE93-41AB-A5F4-732B60A7F35A@punkt.de>
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I just discovered a minor problem when updating some rather dated > systems from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.x or 8.x. > > The servers are Fujitsu Technology Solutions (former Fujitsu-Siemens) > RX100 S4. The current generation of the same system is RX100 S6, so this > is two generations old. Some of them still run fine in our datacenter, th= ough. > > While the S5 and S6 series features two gigabit ports and an additional > network interface for out of band management (called iRMC, similar to HP'= s iLO), > the S4 has only two gigabit ports and the iRMC interface is piggybacked t= o > one of them. > > In our standard setup we disable the first interface in the BIOS. If you = do this, > the physical port is available as a dedicated management interface to the= iRMC > and only the second IF is probed by FreeBSD 6.x as bge0. > > Now I try to PXE boot an identically configured system via the remote ser= ial > console with FreeBSD 7. Everything runs fine, until the kernel probes the > network interfaces. The last thing I see are messages about successful > probing of both bge0 and bge1 and then my remote management connection > and my console are gone. > > I have to reset the BMC by literally pulling the power to get the iRMC ba= ck. > > Is it possible to use some device.hints entry to prohibit the probing of = bge1? > I think that would be the easiest solution to the problem? Other suggesti= ons > are of course welcome. I can provide more config details and dmesg output > if needed. > > Thanks, > Patrick Maybe this loader tunable will help: hw.bge.allow_asf Allow the ASF feature for cooperating with IPMI. Can cause sys=E2= =80=90 tem lockup problems on a small number of systems. Disabled by default. Cheers Tom
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