miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31

Yonghyeon PYUN pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 06:04:00 UTC 2014


On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:49:27PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:18:19PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:53:51PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> >> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:40:58PM -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> >> >> > On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 13:19 -0700, Chris H wrote:
> >> >> >> >> [...]
> >> >> >> >> miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
> >> >> >> >> rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
> >> >> >> >> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow
> >> >> >> >> rlphy1: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> >> >> >> > [...]---big-snip--8<---
> >> >> >> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 1
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> As you can see, it looks much the same. I have no idea what
> >> >> >> >> I should do to better inform the driver/kernel how to better
> >> >> >> >> handle it. Or is it the driver, itself?
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Thank you again, for your thoughtful response.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> --Chris
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > I think the way to fix a phy that responds at all addresses is to set a
> >> >> >> > hint in loader.conf masking out the ones that aren't real, like so:
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >  hint.miibus.0.phymask="1"
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > You might be able to set ="0x00000001" to make it more clear it's a
> >> >> >> > bitmask, but I'm not sure of that.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Thank you very much for the hint. I'll give it a shot.
> >> >> >> Any idea why this is happening? I have 4 other MB's using the Nvidia
> >> >> >> chipset, and the nfe(4) driver. But they don't respond this way.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If some nfe(4) variants badly behave in probing stage, this should
> >> >> > be handled by driver.  We already have too many hints and tunables
> >> >> > and I don't think most users know that.  In addition, adding
> >> >> > additional NIC may change miibus instance number.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Could you show me the output of 'kenv | grep smbios'?
> >> >> Yes, of course.
> >> >>
> >> >> Here it is:
> >> >>
> >> >> smbios.bios.reldate="11/22/2010"
> >> >> smbios.bios.vendor="American Megatrends Inc."
> >> >> smbios.bios.version="V2.7"
> >> >> smbios.chassis.maker="MSI"
> >> >> smbios.chassis.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> >> >> smbios.chassis.tag="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> >> >> smbios.chassis.version="2.0"
> >> >> smbios.memory.enabled="2097152"
> >> >> smbios.planar.maker="MSI"
> >> >> smbios.planar.product="K9N6PGM2-V2 (MS-7309)"
> >> >> smbios.planar.serial="To be filled by O.E.M."
> >> >> smbios.planar.version="2.0"
> >> >> smbios.socket.enabled="1"
> >> >> smbios.socket.populated="1"
> >> >> smbios.system.maker="MSI"
> >> >> smbios.system.product="MS-7309"
> >> >> smbios.system.serial="To Be Filled By O.E.M."
> >> >> smbios.system.uuid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-406186cd4497"
> >> >> smbios.system.version="2.0"
> >> >> smbios.version="2.6"
> >> >>
> >> >> Hope this helps, and thank you for all your time, and trouble.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the info. Try attached patch and let me know how it
> >> > works.  Make sure to remove the hint(hint.miibus.0.phymask="1")
> >> > set in loader.conf before testing it.
> >>
> >> Hello, and thanks for all the attention.
> >> Sorry for the delay. I chose to perform a dump(8) before attempting
> >> the KERn rebuild with the patch. But the kernel threw a read error
> >> message on one of the drives. So I had to sort out the problem on
> >> the drive before I could complete the dump. Then, of course I had
> >> to reslice, and format another drive to replace the ailing one,
> >> before I could perform a restore(8), and start the nfe patch; build
> >> && install kernel. Weird; the drive had only a few hours on it.
> >> Well, anyway. The patch applied cleanly. So I built, and installed
> >> a new kernel with it. X's out the hint.miibus.0.phymask="0x00000001"
> >> in loader.conf(5), and bounced the box. Bad news:
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 31
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 30
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 29
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 28
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 27
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 26
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 25
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 24
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 23
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 22
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 21
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 20
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 19
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 18
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 17
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 16
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 15
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 14
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 13
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 12
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 11
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 10
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 9
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 8
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 7
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 6
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 5
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 4
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 3
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 2
> >> miibus0: mii_mediachg: can't handle non-zero PHY instance 1
> >>
> >> Just as before. In case it should make any difference; I'm
> >> going to attach my copy of src/sys/dev/nfe/if_nfe.c in case
> >> there are any differences in mine, that do not coincide with
> >> your version/copy (I'm on releng_9 - 9.2-STABLE)
> >>
> >> FreeBSD demon0 9.2-STABLE FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE #0 r263756M:
> >> Thu Apr  3 12:42:03 PDT 2014
> >> root at demon0:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEMON0  amd64
> >>
> >> Best wishes, and thanks again.
> >>
> >
> > Oops, could you show me the output of "pciconf -lcbv"?
> 
> Yes. Of course.
> 

[...]

> nfe0 at pci0:0:7:0:	class=0x068000 card=0x73091462 chip=0x03ef10de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'nVidia Corporation'
>     device     = 'MCP61 Ethernet'
>     class      = bridge
>     bar   [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xdff7d000, size 4096, enabled
>     bar   [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xe480, size  8, enabled
>     cap 01[44] = powerspec 2  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>     cap 05[50] = MSI supports 8 messages, 64 bit, vector masks enabled with 8 messages
>     cap 08[6c] = HT MSI fixed address window enabled at 0xfee00000

Thanks a lot for the info.  It seems I missed there are 4 variants
for MCP61.  Try attached patch again.
-------------- next part --------------
Index: sys/dev/nfe/if_nfe.c
===================================================================
--- sys/dev/nfe/if_nfe.c	(revision 264061)
+++ sys/dev/nfe/if_nfe.c	(working copy)
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static int  nfe_suspend(device_t);
 static int  nfe_resume(device_t);
 static int nfe_shutdown(device_t);
 static int  nfe_can_use_msix(struct nfe_softc *);
+static int  nfe_detect_msik9(struct nfe_softc *);
 static void nfe_power(struct nfe_softc *);
 static int  nfe_miibus_readreg(device_t, int, int);
 static int  nfe_miibus_writereg(device_t, int, int, int);
@@ -334,13 +335,38 @@ nfe_alloc_msix(struct nfe_softc *sc, int count)
 	}
 }
 
+
 static int
+nfe_detect_msik9(struct nfe_softc *sc)
+{
+	static char *maker = "MSI";
+	static char *product = "K9N6PGM2-V2 (MS-7309)";
+	char *m, *p;
+	int found;
+
+	found = 0;
+	m = getenv("smbios.planar.maker");
+	p = getenv("smbios.planar.product");
+	if (m != NULL && p != NULL) {
+		if (strcmp(m, maker) == 0 && strcmp(p, product) == 0)
+			found = 1;
+	}
+	if (m != NULL)
+		freeenv(m);
+	if (p != NULL)
+		freeenv(p);
+
+	return (found);
+}
+
+
+static int
 nfe_attach(device_t dev)
 {
 	struct nfe_softc *sc;
 	struct ifnet *ifp;
 	bus_addr_t dma_addr_max;
-	int error = 0, i, msic, reg, rid;
+	int error = 0, i, msic, phyloc, reg, rid;
 
 	sc = device_get_softc(dev);
 	sc->nfe_dev = dev;
@@ -608,8 +634,16 @@ nfe_attach(device_t dev)
 #endif
 
 	/* Do MII setup */
+	phyloc = MII_PHY_ANY;
+	if (sc->nfe_devid == PCI_PRODUCT_NVIDIA_MCP61_LAN1 ||
+	    sc->nfe_devid == PCI_PRODUCT_NVIDIA_MCP61_LAN2 ||
+	    sc->nfe_devid == PCI_PRODUCT_NVIDIA_MCP61_LAN3 ||
+	    sc->nfe_devid == PCI_PRODUCT_NVIDIA_MCP61_LAN4) {
+		if (nfe_detect_msik9(sc) != 0)
+			phyloc = 0;
+	}
 	error = mii_attach(dev, &sc->nfe_miibus, ifp, nfe_ifmedia_upd,
-	    nfe_ifmedia_sts, BMSR_DEFCAPMASK, MII_PHY_ANY, MII_OFFSET_ANY,
+	    nfe_ifmedia_sts, BMSR_DEFCAPMASK, phyloc, MII_OFFSET_ANY,
 	    MIIF_DOPAUSE);
 	if (error != 0) {
 		device_printf(dev, "attaching PHYs failed\n");


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