bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

[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 was 
>>> caused by network traffic being handled by the NIC during driver 
>>> initialization.  If you still see the same behavior then 
>> this might be 
>>> a different issue.
>>>
>> Looks like we are heading in the right direction here.
>>
> 
> 
> 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 0 -c 2 -mfw 0 -c 3 mfw 0"
> The "-c X" specifies with LOM to use while the "-mfw 0" disables
> the firmware.  Use the appropriate number of "-c X" values for
> the number of ports on your system (the r710 has 4 ports).
> To re-enable the firmware do the following:
> "C:\>uxdiag -c 0 -mfw 1 -c 1 -mfw 1 -c 2 -mfw 1 -c 3 mfw 1"
> 
> Finally, the routine bce_print_adapter_info() in HEAD prints out both
> the bootcode and management firmware versions.  If you can get those
> same changes into your release I'd like to see the versions reported
> on your system.
> 

Here is the info from a boot of 8.0 RC2.

ASIC: 0x57092003
B/C: 5.0.6
Rev: C0
Bus: PCIe x4, 2.5Gb/s
Flags: MSI|MFW
MFW: NCS 2.0.3

And looking at this it seems dells update CD was not up to date enough 
and I only got 5.0.6 firmware not 5.0.9.

I will update this now and retest.

TJ