Re: Call for bge(4) testers

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 03:19:52PM +0900, Wanpeng Qian wrote:
> Hi, I encounter a watchdog timeout issue on NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit 
> Ethernet PCIe, dose this patch solve this issue? 

I'm not aware of BCM5723. Could you show me the output of "pciconf -lcbv"?

> 
> If so, I can test it.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Qian
> 
> >All,
> >
> >There were lots of reports that stock bge(4) does not work on Dell
> >Rx20/HP DL 360 G8.  With the help of Broadcom and BCM5719/BCM5720
> >users I managed to address the issue but I had to touch very
> >sensitive part of driver. Before committing the change to tree I'd
> >like to know whether this change introduces regressions on old
> >bge(4) controllers. If you're bge(4) user, please try latest WIP
> >version at the following URL and let me know how it goes on your
> >box. I'm especially interested in whether there is any ASF/IPMI
> >regression on BCM570x/571x.
> >
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/if_bge.c
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/if_bgereg.h
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/bge/brgphy.c
> >
> ><Build instructions>
> >1. Copy both if_bge.c/if_bgereg.h to /usr/src/sys/dev/bge directory
> >2. Copy brgphy.c /usr/src/sys/dev/mii
> >3. Rebuild kernel and reboot to take the change effect.
> >
> >You can also use the files above for for 9.1/stable/9. For stable/8
> >it needs slight modification and I couldn't find time to regenerate
> >the patch.
> >
> >Thanks.