bce(4) with IPMI

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:11:50PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 12:11 -0700, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > > What's even more strange is that our freebsd6 instances don't have
> > this
> > > problem.  
> > > 
> > 
> > Can't explain either but probably stable/6 bce(4) may have used old
> > firmware. 
> 
> Ok, I can once again reach the IPMI controller if I remove this:
> 
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/bce/if_bce.c?r1=210263&r2=210262&pathrev=210263
> 
> Since the driver has control over the interface, not "upping" the
> interface media causes the IPMI controller to not be able to access the
> network.  Ugh.  
> 

Hmm, it seems the firmware relies on driver to establish a link
such that blindly disabling PHY access in DOWN state seem to make
firmware believe that there is a no established link.
Could you try attached patch?

> Sean
> 
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