anyone seeing problems with bce driver?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 14 14:17:10 UTC 2006


On Friday 11 August 2006 18:07, Julian Elischer wrote:
> We're seeing the following problems with a 6.1 based system with a bce 
> interface.
> I've looked at -current and RELENG_6 and don't see any changes that 
> might affect this..
> 
> before I go diving further into the code, does anyone recognise this?
> Looks like possibly the constantly incoming packets stop the PHY from 
> getting reinitialised.
> I am guessing that when reinitiing we should stop new data from hitting 
> the chip.
> I'm guessing this is what should be happenning but there is a window 
> somewhere
> that is letting some through.

Actually, there were some locking fixes I did in HEAD and 6-stable
recently related to bce_watchdog() (IIRC).  I'd check the 6-stable
version of sys/dev/bce/* just to be sure.

-- 
John Baldwin


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