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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:04:51 +0000
From:      Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>
To:        David Christensen <davidch@broadcom.com>
Cc:        "rwilliams@borderware.com" <rwilliams@borderware.com>, Gideon Naim <gideon.naim@broadcom.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver
Message-ID:  <4AEA1183.7050306@tomjudge.com>
In-Reply-To: <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B52381933A19B35AB0@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
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David Christensen wrote:
>>> The next test is to diable the LOM's management firmware 
>> but boot to 
>>> an active network.  Get the User Diag utility at the bottom of 
>>> http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php.
>>> Run the uxdiag utility with the command line:
>>> "C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 0 -c 1 -mfw 0 -c 2 -mfw 0 -c 3 mfw 0"
>>> The "-c X" specifies with LOM to use while the "-mfw 0" 
>> disables the 
>>> firmware.  Use the appropriate number of "-c X" values for 
>> the number 
>>> of ports on your system (the r710 has 4 ports).
>>> To re-enable the firmware do the following:
>>> "C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 1 -c 1 -mfw 1 -c 2 -mfw 1 -c 3 mfw 1"
>>>
>>> Finally, the routine bce_print_adapter_info() in HEAD 
>> prints out both 
>>> the bootcode and management firmware versions.  If you can 
>> get those 
>>> same changes into your release I'd like to see the versions 
>> reported 
>>> on your system.
>>>
>> Here is the info from a boot of 8.0 RC2.
>>
>> ASIC: 0x57092003
>> B/C: 5.0.6
>> Rev: C0
>> Bus: PCIe x4, 2.5Gb/s
>> Flags: MSI|MFW
>> MFW: NCS 2.0.3
>>
>> And looking at this it seems dells update CD was not up to 
>> date enough and I only got 5.0.6 firmware not 5.0.9.
> 
> The package version and the bootcode version are similar but
> they are not the same.  The bootcode you have (v5.0.6) is
> sufficient to fix the problem.
> 

Ok just checked in the life cycle manager and it has 5.0.9 installed my bad.

Running the other test now.

Tom



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