Re: Broadcom BCM5751 not attaching on IBM ThinkCentre A51

From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:48:17 +0900
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:59:03AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
 > On Saturday 08 October 2005 14:14, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
 > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, John Nielsen wrote:
 > > > On Friday 07 October 2005 12:58, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
 > > >> Can you post the output of pciconf -l please?
 > > >
 > > > Attached, along with dmesg output and kernel config file (basically a
 > > > stripped-down GENERIC).
 > >
 > > Can you try applying the attached patch, and the patch in
 > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/79139 and if the latter
 > > patch makes no difference, show the output of the extra line?
 > 
 > I built a new kernel on -CURRENT with these two patches.  No change.  The 
 > only real diff in the dmesg output was your extra line:
 > 
 > bge0: register value ffffffff
 > 
 > No different output regarding the PCI bus.
 > 
 > The ndis driver still does not work as well.
 > 

Due to lack of data sheet from Broadcom it seems that it's hard
to identify what caused this. Since the error message comes from
bge_chipinit(), I guess there is a possible bug(reading/writing
registers while chip reset is in progress) in bge_reset()/bge_chipinit().

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon

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