bge watchdog timeout -- resetting problem on recent update

[Rong-en Fan]

On 4/18/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:38 +0800, Jason Chang 張傑生 wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > After recent cvsup and make world, my server suffered from the
> > bge watchdog timeout -- resetting problem. Manually revert the
> > bge related source to older version and compiled a new kernel
> > may solve the problem. So I guess the recent committed source
> > does not go well with bge nics onboard of IBM e326m servers.
>
> Hi Jason
>
> Can you add
>
>         hw.pci.enable_msi=0
>         hw.pci.enable_msix=0
>
> to /boot/loader.conf and reboot and see if that solves the problem.
>
> I saw this problem a while ago on my -CURRENT with a misbehaving MSI on
> my motherboard. (I may have this completely wrong; I'm not even 100%
> sure the MSI stuff has been MFC'ed to -STABLE).

MSI stuffs are MFC'ed to 6.x since April 1 by jhb@, but I
thought to use MSI, one MUST set hw.pci.enable_{msi,msix} to
1 in loader.conf as the commit log said.

But from the revision changes that Jason posted, the most
suspicious part is MSI...

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
>
>