Call for bge(4) testers

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 05:39:09PM +0600, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On 15.09.2012 03:27, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> >I'm especially interested in whether there is any ASF/IPMI
> >regression on BCM570x/571x.
> >
> There's a reopened bug concerning 8.x releases version of the bge(4) 
> driver not working with IPMI ( 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/122252 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/122252> ). I can also 
> say that enabling ASF on RELENG_8 still leads to locking and hangups. 
> Does this CFT mean that this situation may be improved with the new 
> bge(4) version, on 9.x ?

I'm afraid it wouldn't. ASF/IPMI support of bge(4) has many issues.
Only small number of lucky users were able to use IPMI. I wanted to
not break IPMI for these users in the WIP version.
But ASF/IPMI should work for controllers with APE(BCM5719/BCM5720).

> 
> Eugene.