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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:37:46 -0800
From:      YongHyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject:   Re: 9-stable - ifmedia_set: no match for 0x0/0xfffffff
Message-ID:  <20120215193746.GC4131@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 01:19:40PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > What happens if you set hw.bge.allow_asf to 0 and use auto-negotiation
> > on both sides?
> 
> it works!  the switch was already auto-neg, and i forced auto-neg on the
> server side.
> 

Apart from suspend/resume issue, bge(4) still needs more code to
handle controllers with ASF/IPMI firmware.  This part is mostly
undocumented and hard to experiment due to lack of hardware access.
Current IPMI/ASF handling code shows mixed results and setting
hw.bge.allow_asf to 0 will break IPMI support.

> thanks.  this was not pleasant.  did i remember to whine that i am in
> tokyo and the server is on the beast coast of the states?  :)
> 
> i think a bit of a warning about hw.bge.allow_asf in UPDATING might help
> folk.
> 
> thank you *very* much for your help.
> 
> randy



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