stable 9.1, bge and ipmi not cooperating

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 08:45:05AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > 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
> 

Sorry, I need more exact revision number.  There had been too many
changes.

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