cvs commit: src/sys/dev/vge if_vge.c

[David Xu]

Bill Paul wrote:

>>Bill Paul wrote:
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>>>>with this change, I got following error on my abit av8:
>>>>vge0: <VIA Networking Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 
>>>>0xf8122000-0xf81220ff irq 22 at device 14.0 on pci0
>>>>vge0: MII read timed out
>>>>vge0: failed to start MII autopoll
>>>>vge0: MII without any phy!
>>>>device_attach: vge0 attach returned 6
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>>>Fine, I took the reload step out. This should fix it. (If reading
>>>the RX filter registers instead of the EEPROM makes it mad, then
>>>I'll scream.)
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>>With your lastest change, I still get same error result.
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>I don't believe you. There's no reason why not reading the EEPROM
>would break it. Especially since it doesn't break my sample card.
>Whatever your problem is, I'm not even going to try to fix it without
>access to the hardware, so I guess you just lose.
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I think the reason is I didn't power off the machine after updating, the
the chip was in weird state. Now it seems working fine.

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>>>It must not be that important to you since you never bothered to mention
>>>this to anyone before.
>>>
>>>Given all the various things it's complaining about when it fails,
>>>it looks like the driver is no longer able to communicate with the device
>>>over the PCI bus. All register accesses are failing. This may not be a
>>>problem with the driver per-se, but with the PCI bridge. It might be
>>>the device has completely locked up, but if vge_reset() doesn't bring
>>>it back to life, then I don't know what else to do.
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>>Without recent change, I can kldunload and kldload it to bring it back 
>>to work.
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>*sigh* Is there some reason you didn't feel like telling me this the
>first time? Why can't people just give me all the information up front
>instead of making me drag it out of them. Is it so hard? Do I fix the
>bugs by checking in one line of code at a time? No. So why do people
>only describe their problems one line at a time?
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>-Bill
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I am lazy to report the problem since I have an alternative rl0 which
works just fine. sorry. :)

David Xu