stable 9.1, bge and ipmi not cooperating

[Daniel Braniss]

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:33:41AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > Hi,
> > the last batch of changes to bge caused the ipmi to stop working  on a
> > Sun Fire X2200 M2, and
> > bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x009003> mem 
> > 0xfdff0000-0xfdffffff,0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci6
> > bge0: CHIP ID 0x00009003; ASIC REV 0x09; CHIP REV 0x90; PCI-X 133 MHz
> > miibus2: <MII bus> on bge0
> > 
> > bge1: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x009003> mem 
> > 0xfdfc0000-0xfdfcffff,0xfdfb0000-0xfdfbffff irq 18 at device 4.1 on pci6
> > bge1: CHIP ID 0x00009003; ASIC REV 0x09; CHIP REV 0x90; PCI-X 133 MHz
> > miibus3: <MII bus> on bge1
> > 
> 
> Could you narrow down which revision broke IPMI?
> And what problems are you seeing?
> I don't have IPMI-capable controller to test. IPMI support for
> old controllers(pre-5717 controllers) was not complete and it was
> luck if it worked on a couple of controllers.

first approximation:
	kernels upto Oct 5th work OK.

so it must be one of these:

changeset:   16420:855e9b949c7a
branch:      9
user:        yongari
date:        Mon Nov 26 04:39:41 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r242426:

changeset:   16419:5fa365c1dcdb
branch:      9
user:        yongari
date:        Mon Nov 26 04:34:05 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r241983-241985:

changeset:   16418:b69de3b6a9e8
branch:      9
user:        yongari
date:        Mon Nov 26 04:25:41 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r241438:

changeset:   16416:564dcb92a91e
branch:      9
user:        yongari
date:        Mon Nov 26 04:10:27 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r241436:

changeset:   16414:a49ee7f76f76
branch:      9
user:        yongari
date:        Mon Nov 26 02:41:30 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r241388-241393:

changeset:   16413:0f885258cea4
branch:      9
user:        yongari
date:        Mon Nov 26 02:31:28 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r241215-241216,241219-241220,241341,241343:

changeset:   16308:27fd493a855c
branch:      9
user:        dim
date:        Mon Nov 12 07:34:05 2012 +0000
summary:     MFC r242625:

changeset:   16169:e292988ae112
branch:      9
user:        gavin
date:        Wed Oct 24 19:04:17 2012 +0000
summary:     Merge r240680 from head:


btw, if you send me patches I can try them out

cheers,
	danny
PS: I'm sorry I caught this now, but these machines are production, and
    I didn't want to touch them :-(