misc/179033: [dc] dc ethernet driver seems to have issues with some multiport card and mother board combinations

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:37:13 am Mr. Clif wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Thanks for working on this. I'm very interested in getting this fixed 
> for everyone that uses the Affected Atom boards and other small format 
> boards that work well in small custom routers.
> 
> However right now I have a big network upgrade I'm working on and don't 
> have time to get to it until late July, I'm hoping. So please forgive me 
> for the long delay.

That is fine.  I've been able to test this on a little netbook I have that has
bridges with the ISA enable bit set and have fixed a few bugs.  The updated
patch is at the URL below.  I wasn't able to test your specific use case yet
however (of the BIOS using an invalid range).

>      Thanks for your help,
>      Clif
> 
> 
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday, June 10, 2013 3:13:11 pm Mr. Clif wrote:
> >> Hi John and Pyun,
> >>
> >> Ok got the new kernel installed and tested. Yes it works! :-) Maybe that
> >> will also fix a simular problem with the sun cards (cas[03]), except I
> >> don't see a define like that in if_cas.c. Suggestions?
> > So I have a possible "real" fix for this.  However, I do not have any hardware
> > I can find that has a PCI-PCI bridge with the ISA-enable bit set.  I know it
> > compiles and boots fine on other systems.  Can you please try this and capture
> > the dmesg output?  It would also be good to capture devinfo -u output before
> > and after.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/pci_isa_enable.patch
> >
> 
> 

-- 
John Baldwin