bge(4) failure, Dell 12G hardware, BCM5720C

[Sean Bruno]

On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 10:06 -0800, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:23:23AM -0800, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > 
> > > As you see ukphy(4) was attached to bge2 so it may cause various
> > > issues.
> > > Is bge2 ASF/IPMI enabled interface?  It seems ASF handling in
> > > bge(4) causes more trouble on recent controllers.  Unfortunately
> > > disabling ASF may also trigger other problems like NMI.
> > > I believe bge(4) should always honor ASF/IMPI firmware instead of
> > > relying on hw.bge.allow_asf tunable and have to strictly follow
> > > firmware handshake sequence.  Just ignoring ASF/IMPI firmware seems
> > > to confuse firmware.   
> > > Unfortunately all these information is undocumented and fixing it
> > > requires real hardware access.
> > 
> > ASF/IPMI -- I've tried disabling things, but it just fails miserably.  I
> > can at least get the host to a login via serial console and poke at
> > things.
> > 
> > Do you want me to rig up a test for you on this box?  I suspect I can do
> > something temporarily in the freebsd cluster with this box.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, I still have to understand what is correct handshake sequence
> for ASF/IPMI firmware. This handshake may be related with suspend/
> resume as well as WOL. I'll let you know when I have experimental
> patch.
> 
> > Sean
> > 


As a point of interest, we installed red hat's 6.2 release and it
appears to understand and be able to talk to this controller without any
issue.

I guess I can try to get more documents out of my Dell contacts.

Sean