bge watchdog timeout -- resetting problem on recent update

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 2 15:57:12 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 01 May 2007 09:53 pm, CQ CQ de Jason wrote:
> Dear Kim,
>
> >> 2. using latest(2007/04) 7-current source does not have this
> >> problem.
> >
> > That's weird.  The only difference between -CURRENT and -STABLE
> > is this:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c.di
> >ff?r1=1.91.2.21;r2=1.186
> >
> > Are you sure it is okay with -CURRENT?
>
> There is something strange here. The server model is IBM e326m AMD
> Opteron. But 6.2 & 7 get the different bge chipset model number.
>
> 6.2-STABLE
> uname -a
> FreeBSD ccsun51.cc.ntu.edu.tw 6.2-STABLE-200704 FreeBSD
> 6.2-STABLE-200704 #0: Sun Apr  1 08:57:24 UTC 2007    
> root at palmer.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  amd64
>
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5714 B3, ASIC rev. 0x8003> mem
> 0xe8210000-0xe821ffff,0xe82000 00-0xe820ffff irq 26 at device 4.0
> on pci4
>
> 7.0-CURRENT
> uname -a
> FreeBSD ccsun50.cc.ntu.edu.tw 7.0-CURRENT-200704 FreeBSD
> 7.0-CURRENT-200704 #0: Sun Apr  1 12:57:43 UTC 2007    
> root at stiles.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev.
> 0x8003> mem 0xe 8210000-0xe821ffff,0xe8200000-0xe820ffff irq 26 at
> device 4.0 on pci4 miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> brgphy0: <BCM5780 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
> brgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX -FDX, auto

They are actually the same chipset, i.e., both ASIC's are 0x8003.  
-STABLE does not have VPD support, so it prints driver built-in model 
number while -CURRENT prints VPD product information.

JK


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