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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:37:45 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] bge(4) patch for -STABLE
Message-ID:  <200703161537.47359.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200703161848.l2GIm3H8043252@lava.sentex.ca>
References:  <200703161430.42854.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200703161848.l2GIm3H8043252@lava.sentex.ca>

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On Friday 16 March 2007 02:46 pm, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 02:30 PM 3/16/2007, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> >I have made bge(4) patch for -STABLE (sorry, not suitable for
> >RELENG_6_2):
> >
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/bge_releng6.diff
> >
> >I received few success reports but I need wider testing because
> >changes are too big and there are two many BCM57xx variants out
> >there.  If it breaks anything, please let me know.  Especially, I
> >want to hear more about IPMI/ASF mode support, i.e., if it doesn't
> >work but setting hw.bge.allow_asf=0 in /boot/loader.conf fixes the
> >problem, definitely I want to know.
>
> Hi,
>          What sort of problems does the patch fix ? I have a name
> server that sees the odd watchdog reset. Do you think this would
> address that problem ?  Its not that frequent, but it does happen.
>
> eg
>
> Feb 17 17:59:28 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Feb 21 16:17:50 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Feb 28 11:13:11 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Mar  7 09:01:43 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Mar 10 10:21:12 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Mar 14 03:50:46 auth2 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
>
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5750 B1, ASIC rev. 0x4101> mem
> 0xfe5f0000-0xfe5fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci4
> miibus1: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM5750 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:59:2b:06

It might fix your problem (i.e., we have some fixes for BCM5750 
chipset family) but I am not so sure.  Why don't you try it and tell 
me? ;-)

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim



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