On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Robert Watson wrote this message on Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 13:53 +0000: >> I updated two boxes to recent kernels from a kernel around October 7 or so, >> and they now both hang on boot if I have a Neterion 10gbps ethernet card in >> the PCIe slot. Since I don't have the driver loaded at boot, it seems more >> likely it's a kernel bug. Both identical machines now have the following >> vpd warning during boot, which wasn't present previously, but may be >> unrelated: > > It's very likely you are plagued w/ non-standard PCI cards... > > I assume you mean Nov 7th? If so, there was fix committed for more normal > bad VPD data (v1.321 of sys/dev/pci/pci.c)... > > There is still an outstanding bug of a device that doesn't even properly > handle VPD accesses and it hang waiting for a bit to clear... I need to > inspect the patch closer before committing.. What I mean specifically is that the kernel dated October 7 works fine, and any more recent kernel hangs solidly if I boot it. Obviously, this is somewhat inconvenient. :-) The device in question is a PCI-X Neterion 10gbps card. The output from the kernel when the device driver is loaded is: Copyright(c) 2002-2005 Neterion Inc. xge0: <Neterion XframeII 10GbE Adapter, Revision 2, Driver v2.0.0.6765> mem 0xd8300000-0xd8307fff,0xd8400000-0xd84fffff,0xd8308000-0xd83087ff irq 25 at device 1.0 on pci129 xge0: Device is on 64 bit PCIX(M1) 133MHz bus If there's more information I can provide I'm happy to do so, just let me know what's needed. Is there a way I can disable vpd support at boot-time in some form -- i.e., via a tunable? It would be very useful if these machines worked. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of CambridgeReceived on Tue Nov 14 2006 - 16:38:17 UTC
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