bce(4) with IPMI

[Sean Bruno]

On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 10:47 -0700, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:42:22AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:52 -0700, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> > > 
> > > Could you try attached patch? 
> > 
> > Yeah, this does work on the r410 ... however, I can't test the
> > "negative" case here where the bce(4) driver runs across a chipset where
> > sc->bce_flags & BCE_MFW_ENABLE_FLAG == 0
> > 
> > I tried disabling the Dell IPMI controller, but the h/w is still there
> > doing "things".  So, this may not be the flag you want to use.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, then could you try attached patch again?
> 
> > Sean
> > 

hrm indeed.  I don't know that the Dell DRAC thing actually does
anythign to the running IPMI controller on the host.  Disabling the
IPMI/DRAC completely in the BIOS of the DRAC does seem to have any
effect on this flag.

-bash-4.2$ dmesg |grep -i bce
bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0)> mem
0xd8000000-0xd9ffffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci1
bce0: Reserved 0x2000000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xd8000000
bce0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (16 supported)
bce0: using IRQ 256 for MSI
miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0
bce0: bpf attached
bce0: Ethernet address: a4:ba:db:2b:6d:58
bce0: [MPSAFE]
bce0: [ITHREAD]
bce0: ASIC (0x57092008); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.2.2);
Flags (MSI|MFW); MFW (NCSI 2.0.8)
bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0)> mem
0xdc000000-0xddffffff irq 48 at device 0.1 on pci1
bce1: Reserved 0x2000000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xdc000000
bce1: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (16 supported)
bce1: using IRQ 257 for MSI
miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1
bce1: bpf attached
bce1: Ethernet address: a4:ba:db:2b:6d:59
bce1: [MPSAFE]
bce1: [ITHREAD]
bce1: ASIC (0x57092008); Rev (C0); Bus (PCIe x4, 2.5Gbps); B/C (5.2.2);
Flags (MSI|MFW); MFW (NCSI 2.0.8)
bce1: link state changed to UP