svn commit: r198994 - in stable/6/sys/dev: bce mii

[pluknet]

2009/11/6 Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko at freebsd.org>:
> Author: ambrisko
> Date: Fri Nov  6 17:58:44 2009
> New Revision: 198994
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198994
>
> Log:
>  MFC: Merge in minimal 5709/5716 support into 6.X extracted from current.
>  This is not a direct merge since I tried to only extra the changes to
>  support the 5709 from all of the other changes that have happened in
>  head.  This should not introduce any issues that the other changes may
>  have caused.  We have been running this code for months on Dell r710's.
>  It has been lightly tested on systems with 5716's.
>
>  This is to allow people to run newer hardware on 6.X.


Very nice. Thank you.

I'm afraid not all the chunks were merged since I cannot run on 6.x
with my BCM5709.

FreeBSD 7.2 - works
FreeBSD 6.4-stable - does not

It locks up somewhere in the late stage of multiuser (usually in a
random step of rc.d) and getty cannot take the control.
Here it still pings via network, I can achieve ssh stage where ssh
warns me "The authenticity of host '$HOST' can't be established."
If I type "yes", then it stops here and no go. After return from ddb
it stops even ping until next reboot.

I use boot via NFS/PXE, so it may interfere there, since rc.d usually
write something to disk, which is NFS-mounted here.
So it probably could run fine if booting from a local disk (I can't
test this setup).

I've attached dmesg (doesn't differs much from 7.2) and some ddb output below.
Looking in alltrace I see no obvious lockups, no nfs stuck. But
sometimes sh stucks somewhere in nfsreq.

The same box boots fine via NFS on different NFS setup with 7.2,
a different (in h/w) box boots fine on these NFS setup and NFS root,
so no mistakes in setup part.

I remember that back to August I tried to boot 6.4 with what is in bce
of RELENG_7 on this box and it booted fine and I xmitted some traffic
with it.
So I guess the problem is in NFS-boot.

I'll try to find ways to boot the system locally and report back..

-- 
wbr,
pluknet
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