4.9-RC and bge

[Paul Saab]

we need to find the exact commit which broke it.  That's a huge difference
there that has a lot of changes.

Damon Permezel (zeph at damon.com) wrote:
> I regressed all the way back to:
> 
>  * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c,v 1.3.2.20 2003/02/06 21:36:40 ps 
> Exp $
>  * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h,v 1.1.2.9 2003/02/06 21:36:40 
> ps Exp $
>  * $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/mii/brgphy.c,v 1.1.2.6 2002/12/11 21:26:56 ps 
> Exp $
> 
> and the problem went away.
> 
> I moved forward all the way back to the present, but modified the 
> brgphy.c so as
> not to enable Wirespeed ethernet, and that was not an issue.
> 
> I am moving back again so that I can get some work done.
> 
> I am willing to try whatever experiments you want.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 01:21 Australia/Brisbane, John Polstra 
> wrote:
> 
> >On 30-Sep-2003 Damon Anton Permezel wrote:
> >>Recent SUP.
> >>Installed on Dell PowerEdge 4600.
> >>Getting tons of:
> >>
> >>Sep 30 12:23:16 zige /kernel: bge0: gigabit link up
> >>Sep 30 12:23:46 zige last message repeated 98 times
> >
> >Check your dmesg output, and I bet you'll see that bge0 is sharing an
> >IRQ with another device.  (If not, I'd like to hear about it.)  This
> >bug was fixed in -current in revision 1.41 of if_bge.c, but it never
> >got merged to -stable.  I have a patch for -stable that I am planning
> >to commit after the source freeze lifts.  It is attached to this mail.
> >Please let me know whether it solves your problem or not.
> >
> >John
> ><if_bge.c.patch>

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