On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:58 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > Ran this on my Dell R410. I can clearly see that the tool is > > "disabling" the MFW bit, and that the dell bios interface to the IPMI > > controller/DRAC is impaired, however ... > > > > The system still thinks that the MFW bit is "ON" and proceeds normally > > in this case. The code still fails to detect that MFW is disabled. > > > > In addition, the IPMI driver attaches to "something" and I can poke at > > it via ipmitool. So, from the driver perspective, the attempt to detect > > MFW enabled doesn't work as the chipset still thinks that its "on". > > > > I've commented out the code block that we're trying to work around in > > the yahoo code base for now. > > I have an R210 and running the uxdiag command definitely disabled > management firmware on my system: > > ===[root] ~ # dmesg | grep bce > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0)> mem > 0xda000000-0xdbffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 > miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0 > bce0: Ethernet address: b8:ac:6f:87:95:f1 > bce0: ASIC (0x57092008); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.2.2); Bufs > (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI) > bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0)> mem > 0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci2 > miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1 > bce1: Ethernet address: b8:ac:6f:87:95:f2 > bce1: ASIC (0x57092008); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.2.2); Bufs > (RX:2;TX:2;PG:8); Flags (SPLT|MSI) > bce0: Gigabit link up! > bce0: Gigabit link up! > bce1: Gigabit link up! > bce1: Gigabit link up! > ===[root] ~ # > > Dave
Yeah, that was my results as well. But when I ran Pyun's modifcations to detect this case, there was no change. (this was an r410 btw). Sean _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
