bge(4) on BCM 5752 A02 panic due to media autoselect

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:43:30PM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:16:49PM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> > >  > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >  > > It would be great if you can test the brgphy patch. I'll commit the
> > >  > > patch if it work on your box.
> > >  >
> > >  > Sure, I would be more than happy to do that.  Which brgphy patch do you
> > >  > want me to test?  (I have patched brgphy.c and miidevs to make BCM5752
> > >  > to attach as brgphy and it resolved the panic, but I am not quite sure
> > >  > if that is what you want, though)
> > >  >
> > >
> > > That's exactly the same patch I've made for stable.
> > > (You've already patched it to work on CURRENT.)
> >
> > That's nice! Will you commit it against -CURRENT so we have a reasonable
> > settlement period and MFC it before we ship 6.2-RELEASE?  Because bge(4)
> > is widely deployed, it's important to make sure that maximum
> > compatibility is being maintained across releases, so getting it into
> > the -CURRENT earlier will provide more feedbacks.
> >
>
> Done.(miidevs, rev. 1.34 brgphy.c, rev. 1.46)

I'm running this currently, with the following:

BCM5705M Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

I've done a few medium-stress things, like c[v]sup my repo and ports trees, 
download a bunch of small files, download a big file, etc. So far no 
problems.

hth,

Doug

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