RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2010-01-20 Thread David Christensen
> > Thanks for testing. I want to pass the changes by a couple other > > people before I go ahead with a commit. > > > > Dave > > > > Hi Dave, > > I was just wondering when these changes will hit the tree, I have been > running your patch in production for some time now and all seems well. J

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2010-01-14 Thread M. Jones
Hello, We've been using this patch in production on four servers for a number of weeks, and it has worked 100%. Systems are all Dell R610, and run 7.2-RELEASE as well as 8.0-RELEASE. Regards, M. Jones Tom Judge wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Christense

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2010-01-13 Thread Tom Judge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Christensen wrote: >>> Does the attached patch make a difference for you? >> This patch seems to do the trick, on at least one of the >> R610's that we have. >> >> Just did cold boot, 5 warm boots, cold boot, 5 warm boots and >> have not had an

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-12-01 Thread David Christensen
> > Does the attached patch make a difference for you? > > This patch seems to do the trick, on at least one of the > R610's that we have. > > Just did cold boot, 5 warm boots, cold boot, 5 warm boots and > have not had any issues. > Thanks for testing. I want to pass the changes by a couple o

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-24 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: For the record we also have not been able to reproduce the issue on the R710 only the R610. I got hold of an R610 system and I now understand why the issue was difficult to replicate on R710. The R610 ships without Enterprise iDRAC while the R710 ship with the add-in

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-20 Thread David Christensen
> > For the record we also have not been able to reproduce the issue on > > the R710 only the R610. > > I got hold of an R610 system and I now understand why the > issue was difficult to replicate on R710. The R610 ships > without Enterprise iDRAC while the R710 ship with the add-in > Enterpr

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-19 Thread David Christensen
> > I haven't been able to reproduce it on the r710 I have in house. > > Checking with other groups now to see if they have one a I can use, > > though I'm not sure why the system would make a difference for this > > particular issue. Just wanted to confirm that you're using > the driver > > b

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-17 Thread David Christensen
> > I haven't been able to reproduce it on the r710 I have in house. > > Checking with other groups now to see if they have one a I can use, > > though I'm not sure why the system would make a difference for this > > particular issue. Just wanted to confirm that you're using > the driver > > b

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-12 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: Is there any progress on this issue? We can provide access to hardware with this fault (Specifically the R610). I haven't been able to reproduce it on the r710 I have in house. Checking with other groups now to see if they have one a I can use, though I'm not sure why

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-12 Thread David Christensen
> Is there any progress on this issue? We can provide access > to hardware with this fault (Specifically the R610). I haven't been able to reproduce it on the r710 I have in house. Checking with other groups now to see if they have one a I can use, though I'm not sure why the system would make a

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-12 Thread Miroslav Lachman
David Christensen wrote: Hi, we have two new Dell R610 machines with four bce NICs (only bce0 is connected at this time). I tried cold (power cycle in iDRAC) and warm reboot (shutdown -r now), NIC is working on every reboot, but I am still seeing messages: bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(15

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-11 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: Hi, we have two new Dell R610 machines with four bce NICs (only bce0 is connected at this time). I tried cold (power cycle in iDRAC) and warm reboot (shutdown -r now), NIC is working on every reboot, but I am still seeing messages: bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-11 Thread David Christensen
Hi, > we have two new Dell R610 machines with four bce NICs (only > bce0 is connected at this time). I tried cold (power cycle in > iDRAC) and warm reboot (shutdown -r now), NIC is working on > every reboot, but I am still seeing messages: > > bce0: /usr/src/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c(1525): PHY writ

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-11-11 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Tom Judge wrote: Tom Judge wrote: David Christensen wrote: The next test is to diable the LOM's management firmware but boot to an active network. After disabling the management firmware and doing 1 cold reboot and 3 warms all worked correctly. After re enabling the firmware and doing 1 co

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-30 Thread Tom Judge
Tom Judge wrote: David Christensen wrote: The next test is to diable the LOM's management firmware but boot to an active network. After disabling the management firmware and doing 1 cold reboot and 3 warms all worked correctly. After re enabling the firmware and doing 1 cold reboot and 3

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: The next test is to diable the LOM's management firmware but boot to an active network. Get the User Diag utility at the bottom of http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php. Run the uxdiag utility with the command line: "C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 0 -c 1

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread David Christensen
> > The next test is to diable the LOM's management firmware > but boot to > > an active network. Get the User Diag utility at the bottom of > > http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php. > > Run the uxdiag utility with the command line: > > "C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 0 -c 1 -mfw

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: Can you try a different test? Power-on the system with the network cable attached to an idle switch (i.e. keep all network traffic from being forwarded to the NIC during driver initialization). Does the system power up successfully? Repeatedly? The problem I saw wa

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread David Christensen
> > Can you try a different test? Power-on the system with the network > > cable attached to an idle switch (i.e. keep all network > traffic from > > being forwarded to the NIC during driver initialization). Does the > > system power up successfully? Repeatedly? The problem I saw was > > c

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: After fighting with the update process for a bit and then learning about the live cycle manager I have managed to test the R610 with the 5.0.9 firmware. On the face of it, it seems that this resolves the issue. After a reboot this morning the error has resurfaced and

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread David Christensen
> > After fighting with the update process for a bit and then learning > > about the live cycle manager I have managed to test the > R610 with the > > 5.0.9 firmware. > > > > On the face of it, it seems that this resolves the issue. > > > After a reboot this morning the error has resurfaced and

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-29 Thread Tom Judge
Tom Judge wrote: David Christensen wrote: Thanks for the rapid response. Dell have firmware 5.0.9 on their website here: http://tiny.cc/ex834 Will that work? Yes, that release does include a good version of BCM5709 bootcode (v5.06). I couldn't really tell until I downloaded the file and lo

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-28 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: Thanks for the rapid response. Dell have firmware 5.0.9 on their website here: http://tiny.cc/ex834 Will that work? Yes, that release does include a good version of BCM5709 bootcode (v5.06). I couldn't really tell until I downloaded the file and looked at the tempor

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Judge
Steven Hartland wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:09 - "Steven Hartland" mentioned: If I understand the PR comments right, the code to support this PHY should be present in 8.0. So you can start by trying out 8.0-RC1 ISO image (or USB stick image, fwiw). Just tried 8.0RC2 no go, PHY sti

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Steven Hartland
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:09 - "Steven Hartland" mentioned: If I understand the PR comments right, the code to support this PHY should be present in 8.0. So you can start by trying out 8.0-RC1 ISO image (or USB stick image, fwiw). Just tried 8.0RC2 no go, PHY still not supported :(

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:09 - "Steven Hartland" mentioned: > Sorry I typo'ed there, should have said bce, is that still relevant?. > > We haven't been able to install any version yet, so can't just > try a kernel, no way of getting data on to the machine without > a working netcard ;-) > >

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Steven Hartland
Sorry I typo'ed there, should have said bce, is that still relevant?. We haven't been able to install any version yet, so can't just try a kernel, no way of getting data on to the machine without a working netcard ;-) Did this update include any updated PHY support for bce? As the the precise er

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Judge
udge Cc: n...@freebsd.org Cc: rwilli...@borderware.com Cc: Gideon Naim Subject: RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver Sent: 27 Oct 2009 17:18 > Thanks for the rapid response. > > Dell have firmware 5.0.9 on their website here: http://tiny.cc/ex834 > > Will that work? Yes,

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:30:38 - "Steven Hartland" mentioned: > M610 is also broken due to unsupported bge revision :( > What bge revision do you have? I recently committed support for new bge(4) chip revisions to HEAD, can you check, please, if HEAD recognize this adapter correctly? You ca

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread David Christensen
> Thanks for the rapid response. > > Dell have firmware 5.0.9 on their website here: http://tiny.cc/ex834 > > Will that work? Yes, that release does include a good version of BCM5709 bootcode (v5.06). I couldn't really tell until I downloaded the file and looked at the temporary files inside.

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Judge
David Christensen wrote: Has anyone seen these errors before: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135836&cat= The system is a Dell R610 and it happens on both cold and warm boots. I am about to check a second chassis, and test with 8, and will follow up after my tests. Yes, I've

RE: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread David Christensen
> Has anyone seen these errors before: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135836&cat= > > The system is a Dell R610 and it happens on both cold and warm boots. > > I am about to check a second chassis, and test with 8, and > will follow up after my tests. Yes, I've seen these error

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Judge
to my page. Tom - Original Message - From: "Tom Judge" To: Cc: ; "Xin LI" ; "David Christensen" ; ; "Stanislav Sedov" Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:11 PM Subject: Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver Tom Judge wrote:

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Steven Hartland
M610 is also broken due to unsupported bge revision :( Regards Steve - Original Message - From: "Tom Judge" To: Cc: ; "Xin LI" ; "David Christensen" ; ; "Stanislav Sedov" Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:11 PM Subject: Re: bce(4

Re: bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Judge
Tom Judge wrote: Hi, Has anyone seen these errors before: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135836&cat= The system is a Dell R610 and it happens on both cold and warm boots. I am about to check a second chassis, and test with 8, and will follow up after my tests. Here are my tes

bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

2009-10-27 Thread Tom Judge
Hi, Has anyone seen these errors before: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=135836&cat= The system is a Dell R610 and it happens on both cold and warm boots. I am about to check a second chassis, and test with 8, and will follow up after my tests. Tom _