RE: Solid hang with bge interface

Same problem with Supermicro H8SSL-R10. (amd64)

If I remember, this bge problem was reported 3-4 month ago first time - but 
i have not found any idea of solution anywhere.

Jiri Madle
TAC-TAC computer s.r.o.
jmadle_at_tac-tac.cz

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Remy Nonnenmacher [mailto:remy.nonnenmacher_at_activnetworks.com]
>> Sent: 21 August 2007 10:45
>> To: Lawrence Farr
>> Cc: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Solid hang with bge interface
>>
>> Lawrence Farr wrote:
>> > I have a Supermicro H8DAR-T based server, that was happily
>> > running 6-stable from last year sometime. I swapped it out and
>> > have been trying to get -CURRENT installed on it but it hangs
>> > solid as soon as you configure the bge0 interface. The bge1
>> > interface will work occasionally tho. To try and rule out a
>> > hardware fault I booted an AMD64-6.0RC1 cd that I had, which
>> > had no problems at all with the interface:
>> >
>> > http://www.epcdirect.com/bootlog/6boot.txt
>> >
>> > But the current snapshot from June, and from todays source
>> > hangs solid as soon as you try to set up the bge0 interface.
>> >
>> > http://www.epcdirect.com/bootlog/currentboot.txt
>> >
>> > As you can see, it hangs solid at "Setting hostname".
>> >
>> > I've also removed the 3ware card "just in case" but it made
>> > no difference. Latest BIOS too. I found some references to
>> > a similar problem with bge recently too:
>> >
>> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-
>> August/075998.html
>> >
>> >
>> > Anyone else seeing this?
>> >
>>
>> Same here with a Supermicro H8SSL-I2 (Serverworks HT1000 based).
>>
>> bge0 locks the system hard when going up, bge1 OK (but goes down a few
>> hours after start). Also, an ifconfig indicates:
>>
>> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>>          options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>>          ether 00:30:48:5e:6e:56
>>          media: Ethernet autoselect (none <hw-loopback>)
>>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>          status: no carrier
>> bge1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>>          options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>>          ether 00:30:48:5e:6e:57
>>          inet 192.168.1.49 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>          media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>          status: active
>>
>> An the dmesg shows: (see "^^^^..")
>>
>> .
>> .
>> bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev.
>> 0x2100> mem 0xff4f0000-0xff4fffff irq 24 at device 3.0 on pci2
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
>> brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
>> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
>> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
>> bge0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:5e:6e:56
>> bge0: [ITHREAD]
>> pci2:3:1: bad VPD cksum, remain 14
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> bge1: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev.
>> 0x2100>
>> mem 0xff4e0000-0xff4effff irq 25 at device 3.1 on pci2
>> miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1
>> brgphy1: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus1
>> brgphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
>> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
>> bge1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:5e:6e:57
>> bge1: [ITHREAD]
>> .
>> .
>>
>> (I also have strange problems with the SATA controller and recent
>> kernels (that works fine on other machines) that seems to read random
>> sectors (at least not those requested) causing core-dumps, compiler
>> internal errors, trashed sources and false positives about corrupted
>> filesystems.I don't know what is going on on this platform but it
>> smells^Gdoesn't looks very sane.)
>>
>> RN.
>> IeM
>>
>>
>
> This is still hanging with yesterdays current in i386 and AMD64, is it 
> worth
> opening a PR?
>
>
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