Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset?

--- Søren Schmidt <sos_at_deepcore.dk> wrote:

> John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> > FYI, I've seen weird in-memory corruption with
> machines with the HT1000_S1 
> > atapci device.  In all the cases I've seen so far,
> a single page is corrupted 
> > with garbage and the page happens to be used by
> UMA to hold credentials 
> > including proc0's credentials.  I've seen this
> corruption (trashed creds for 
> > proc0 and other creds in that page) on many of the
> same boxes (Dell 1435's 
> > IIRC) running on 6.2.  I've tried switching the
> HT1000_S1 to use SWKSMIO 
> > rather SWKS100 as I mentioned to you in an earlier
> e-mail (the Linux driver 
> > uses equivalent of SWKSMIO FWIW) but don't have
> any conclusive tests on that.
> >
> >   
> OK, seems the chipset has some real problems, I have
> digged through all 
> the (very little) docs and info I got from
> serverworks back when, and 
> the only thing I can find is that the chips doesn't
> support MSI in any 
> shape or fashion or it will do really strange
> things.
> Now on my system it seems to be disabled but I'm not
> sure yet how its 
> determined to be that way. Would be worth for you
> guys to check what the 
> sysctl's "hw.pci.enable_msi" and
> "hw.pci.enable_msix" are set to.
> I havn't looked into this yet, but I'm pretty sure
> we added MSI support 
> in the 6.2 -> 7.0 timeframe, so that might have
> uncovered this chipset 
> bug, and possibly the Promise data corruption one as
> well.
> 
> -Søren

That was something that was suggested a while ago when
I pointed out the linux disables MSI. It had no effect
in our systems.

Barney


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