FreeBSD 7.0 does not work on HP DL180, irq 10 storm

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 11:24:51 am Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> --On onsdag, april 16, 2008 10.30.23 -0400 John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 11 April 2008 01:35:15 pm Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> >> A customer is trying to get a brand new HP DL 180 to work with FreeBSD.
> >> We tried 7.0-RELEASE-amd64 and the March 7-STABLE-amd64 snapshot, none
> >> of them works.
> >>
> >> I don't have the entire picture, since I haven't tried installing
> >> myself, the machine is 700 km away, but it is an experienced sysadmin
> >> doing the installation. After install, which seemingly works, although
> >> the console is complaining about IRQ 10 problems (can't say exactly what
> >> it complains about), reboot to the fresh install does not work, the
> >> machine apparently scrolls away a great number of complaints about IRQ
> >> 10.
> >>
> >> He tried turning off USB, serial and other stuff in BIOS, but it didn't
> >> help.
> >>
> >> He tried Red Hat, and it works perfectly, so my guess is there is
> >> something with a FreeBSD driver, dunno for sure which one.
> >>
> >> sorry I can't be more specific. Has anyone else succeeded in installing
> >> FreeBSD 7.0 on HP DL180? (that is 180, not 380, which I know works
> >> fine).
> >>
> >> Thanks for any input.
> >
> > I had a bizarre IRQ storm on IRQ 10 for a DL 180 (or 185?) recently that
> > I  didn't fully figure out.  The box had two bge(4) interfaces and if I
> > manually  disabled the driver for either one (didn't matter which one)
> > the IRQ storm  went away.  I haven't been able to chase it down further,
> > but it doesn't act  like a normal IRQ storm (the storm should have
> > "stayed" with a given device).
>
> How did you disable the driver for one of the interfaces?

I had a local patch that let me do 'hint.pci0.31.0.disable=1' or some such.  
I'll dig it up and try to get it into the tree as it is useful on its own.

-- 
John Baldwin