more marvell marvels

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:48:24PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
 > hi, the mb is asus P5K-VM, the onboard nic is, acccording to pciconf:
 > 
 > mskc0 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x81f81043 chip=0x436411ab 
 > rev=0x12 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd)'
 >     device     = '88E8056 Yukon PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 >     cap 01[48] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
 >     cap 03[50] = VPD
 >     cap 05[5c] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit 
 >     cap 10[e0] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint
 > 
 > nothing new here, problems have been reported before, but:
 > 
 > my very first attempt - after a very long time - of booting 7.1-stable, 
 > produced
 > a panic because msk could not find its physio, by the time i had the serial 
 > console
 > attached and working, that problem disappeared :-(
 > now, after reboot, it sometimes hangs - because the net is not working, and 
 > only if
 > I unplug the ethernet, (no signs of the driver seeing this), and replug things 
 > begin
 > to work. btw, i had to set
 > 	 hw.msk.legacy_intr="1"
 > to get things working.
 > 
 > any patches for 7.1-stable to test?
 > 

If memory serve me right you have Yukon EC Ultra with 88E1149 PHY,
right? CURRENT has some stability fixes but the source wouldn't be
compiled on stable/7 yet due to KPI differences. I have plan to add
some features in next week which make it possible to use HEAD
version on stable/7.

I'm not sure the patch for 88E8040 could be applied to stable/7
but the patch has some fixes for link state handling. Would you
give it try?
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/msk/msk.88E8040.patch14
Note, the 88E8040 patch is not complete yet and may cause other
problems too.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon