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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:30:35 +0200
From:      Henri-Pierre Charles <hpcharles@gmail.com>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Cc:        Jeff Blank <jb000003@mr-happy.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bge problems under 7.2-PRERELEASE
Message-ID:  <4734a3ed0906150930v42b2f202k91d94d5f4e851c74@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090529181618.GF72047@alchemy.franken.de>
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Hello,

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Marius Strobl<marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks it works.

-- 
HPC



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