bce(4) BCM5907 CTX write errors on 7.2 driver

[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 warms, the 
cold works correctly and the warms all failed.

Tom
>>>> 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.
>>
>> The package version and the bootcode version are similar but
>> they are not the same.  The bootcode you have (v5.0.6) is
>> sufficient to fix the problem.
>>
> 
> Ok just checked in the life cycle manager and it has 5.0.9 installed my 
> bad.
> 
> Running the other test now.
>