Re: bge fail on netboot of NetBSD-6 on v215 and v240

Michael <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Organization The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID <20130514065948.21ffe51c@connemara>
Hello,

On Tue, 14 May 2013 03:42:16 +0900
SAITOH Masanobu <[email protected]> wrote:

> (2012/10/18 2:47), Michael wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Oct 17, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> > 
> >> I took the latest distribution/builds of netbsd-6 and tried to
> >> netboot them this evening on a Sun Fire v215 and Sun Fire v240.
> > 
> >> Both got ofwboot.net fine, and loaded the GENERIC (MP) kernel fine
> >> (though the v215 complained about the aceride tc_count), but when
> >> it came time to mount NFS root, both failed: bge0 watchdog timeout
> >> -- resetting (resulting in "cannot mount root, error = 79").
> > 
> >> Have we screwed the pooch in interrupt routing, again?
> > 
> > I see the same on a Blade 2500 - on some bges our driver doesn't work if OF touched the hardware first, it works fine if you boot from something else.
> > 
> > have fun
> > Michael
> 
>  Is this problem still alive in -current?

Can't tell, the kernel crashes with an illegal access to PCI config space right after bge establishes its interrupt handler.
( sorry, didn't have time to dig any further yet - the fault comes from schizo_conf_read() )
Same when booting from harddisk.

have fun
Michael
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