On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:11:50PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 12:11 -0700, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > > What's even more strange is that our freebsd6 instances don't have
> > this
> > > problem.
> > >
> >
> > Can't explain either but probably stable/6 bce(4) may have used old
> > firmware.
>
> Ok, I can once again reach the IPMI controller if I remove this:
>
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c?r1=210263&r2=210262&pathrev=210263
>
> Since the driver has control over the interface, not "upping" the
> interface media causes the IPMI controller to not be able to access the
> network. Ugh.
>
Hmm, it seems the firmware relies on driver to establish a link
such that blindly disabling PHY access in DOWN state seem to make
firmware believe that there is a no established link.
Could you try attached patch?
> Sean
>
Index: sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c
===================================================================
--- sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c (revision 226114)
+++ sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c (working copy)
@@ -6180,7 +6180,8 @@
BCE_LOCK(sc);
- if ((ifp->if_flags & IFF_UP) == 0) {
+ if ((ifp->if_flags & IFF_UP) == 0 &&
+ (sc->bce_flags & BCE_MFW_ENABLE_FLAG) == 0) {
BCE_UNLOCK(sc);
return;
}
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