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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:53:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Paul Dlug <paul@aps.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3 on IBM/Intel Blade server?
Message-ID:  <20050220125216.V79420@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <4737771fa09e2534ab512d7a18c3d307@aps.org>
References:  <9975416e2ef6f29c2813c05c6612f749@aps.org> <4737771fa09e2534ab512d7a18c3d307@aps.org>

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Paul Dlug wrote:

>
> On Feb 19, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Doug White wrote:
>
> > Is the suggested "fix" the patch that was applied to -current?
>
> Yes, the patch just appears to comment out some flags being set on the
> interface. The code has changed a number of times since then but the
> relevant section is still there. I don't understand enough about the
> ethernet driver to know if there is something else relevant that must
> be changed.

Sadly I know nothing about the internals of the bge parts. If you found a
PCI card with this chip on it, or could make a blade available to a
developer (Bill Paul, probably) they could attempt to fix the problem.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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