FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE + bge0 == watchdog timeout

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:37:03PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:09:28PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>I can provide you full access to this machine (if you want) or let me
> >>know, what version I should check. Older versions (6.x - 8.3) are
> >>working fine with hw.bge.allow_asf="1" in loader.conf. I didn't test
> >>newer releases on these old machines.
> >
> >The reporter said the machine was Sun Fire X2200 M2 so I guess you
> >may see the same issue on both stable/9 and stable/8. Ideally the
> >loader tunable hw.bge.allow_asf should not be there and driver
> >should take care of it by checking the existence of ASF/IPMI
> >firmware.
> >
> >Can you setup a remote debugging environments(+ IPMI access) like
> >the following URL?
> >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/remote_debugging.txt
> 
> The one Sun Fire X2100 M2 is idling in datacenter and connected to 
> internet, so I can remotely reinstall it to stable/9 withing day or two 
> and give you full access to it (ssh user, root, BMC / IPMI admin account 
> with remote KVM + remote media). But as I understand, you need another 
> machine connected to it with serial and another ethernet. It will take 
> me some more time, as I will need to go to the datacenter, find some 
> serial cable etc.
> 
> Let me know if ssh + ipmi access to X2100 alone is useful for you to 
> start, or only full remote debugging setup is needed.
> 
> Can you point me to the original problem report with X2200 M2?
> 

I had been working on fixing the IPMI regression with the help of
Miroslav. It was fixed in r248226.
Many thanks to Miroslav for providing full remote debugging
environments.