more marvell marvels

[Danny Braniss]

> 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.
> 

tried to apply patches, but if_mskreg.h patches failed, and hand stitching
didn't help (I have 7.1-Stable)

danny

> -- 
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon