Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:28:00 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/bge if_bge.c Message-ID: <XFMail.20061215172800.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20061215203505.GA55141@dragon.NUXI.org>
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> I wonder if enabling MSI is what killed bge(4) for me. The booted kernel > would establish 1000Mbit link, but would see and wouldn't send any > packets. > > I have a Tyan K8W (s2885) which I experienced this on: > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5703 A2, ASIC rev. 0x1002> mem 0xfd7e0000-0xfd7effff irq 24 a > t device 9.0 on pci2 > miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0 > brgphy0: <BCM5703 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:27:a1:b8 I wouldn't be surprised if MSI was the culprit. I'm pretty sure the 5703 is one of the chips that has MSI-related bugs. You could try disabling MSI with the tunables mentioned in UPDATING, if you still have that short-lived version of the driver. John
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