From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 20:34:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71E616A41A for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kozak.szymon@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA4213C4A3 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kozak.szymon@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id s27so367445ele for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:34:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=QK11y93xC+Z6v+ZcYX9sXiN3P/q+W6IGJZpneTfg2e4=; b=KGa8W5ueVfEVvUymYVfeFV/x5nPa5qxxQfdmWyQDnhnMDlFHVinSS68wzZscfxCGFPqSWxIPfrgtS3G2TPYUe4lRbJVPSm3FA38rTrRjxOWZTgQXy86XyNeQ20mrFIFb5Jg4bZhQI0/VF9kEw6945WuMNwxcu7hs8xItjBf2Tsc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HMA2mC8TzJh1HSA7DjWUAuYHogmpWKBtxhB4cjAegxa70N8ca2h7pxutBdgEPPVT0oMMuZjQ0dnfWngjOYZ0jLFugHBusdK1Llpku0cquYqXuwJqvuO/7DRQdi3b7wnOOJLz3V5B/JMwYUwshT1/8XhBEBl4nWHC7bnUQHdNd4o= Received: by 10.143.1.2 with SMTP id d2mr1008475wfi.1193430844646; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.240.14 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <289d9e390710261334v45b0b3d6te5ead0d56263532f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:34:04 +0200 From: "Szymon Kozak" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <289d9e390710261332l7739cc81t829ad56b63e0c90@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4712A4A8.7080503@FreeBSD.org> <200710241910.28201.joao@matik.com.br> <200710241904.47701.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200710251102.33088.joao@matik.com.br> <289d9e390710261332l7739cc81t829ad56b63e0c90@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: panic in 8-CURRENT / BGE hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:34:08 -0000 On 10/25/07, JoaoBR wrote: > > The main goal of the two technologies is the same, i.e., out-of-band > > server management. Both use Remote Management and Control Protocol > > (RMCP) for the network protocol but ASF is implemented on NIC > > firmware level while IPMI is implemented on baseboard management > > controller (BMC). Now BCM57xx firmware has built-in ASF stack and > > the interface can be shared with BMC. If there is a BMC on-board and > > network controller is shared, obviously you cannot just reset the > > controller, etc. You have to 'tell' the firmware that you are about > > to do critical things, such as reset, start, stop, link negotiation, > > etc, so that it can communicate with BMC beforehand. If you turn on > > hw.bge.allow_asf, it does just that. Unfortunately, it does not work > > for all systems in the real world because they are not created equal, > > e.g., different spec. revisions, hardware implementations, firmware, > > BIOS, etc. Basically some system fails *without* it while some > > system fails *with* it. Hence, the tunable was necessary. At least, > > that is how I understand it. > > > thank you, that was great > > but would really not harm to put something about resumed into the man page > Hello, I have the same problem, but change value to hw.bge.allow_asf="0" doesn't work for me. I have Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet in my ThinkPad R61. Dmesg from FreeBSD-STABLE shows: bge0: mem 0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4 Here is complete dmesg: http://slane.pl/tmp/dmesg.txt Anybody know what's wrong?