The following reply was made to PR kern/36022; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36022: [4.0_BETA2] bge(4) fails to initialize
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:02:10 -0400

 [repost: previous post got truncated at first line containing a  
 single period]
 
 A recent pull-up to the 4.0 branch "improved" the situation somewhat  
 (for some random value of "improved"):
 
   bge0 at pci5 dev 9 function 0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet
   bge0: interrupting at ioapic2 pin 0 (irq 11)
 -bge0: firmware handshake timed out, val = 4b657654
 -bge0: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
 -bge0: chip initialization failed
 +bge0: ASIC BCM5704 A3 (0x2003), Ethernet address 00:e0:81:30:d6:7c
 +brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5704 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 0
 +brgphy0: using BCM5704 DSP patch
 +brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,  
 1000baseT-FDX, auto
   bge1 at pci5 dev 9 function 1: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet
   bge1: interrupting at ioapic2 pin 1 (irq 10)
 -bge1: firmware handshake timed out, val = 4b657654
 -bge1: RX CPU self-diagnostics failed!
 -bge1: chip initialization failed
 +bge1: ASIC BCM5704 A3 (0x2003), Ethernet address 00:e0:81:30:d6:7d
 +brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5704 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 0
 +brgphy1: using BCM5704 DSP patch
 +brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,  
 1000baseT-FDX, auto
 
 
 Trying to use the device results in:
 
 # ifconfig bge0 up
 # ifconfig bge1 up
 [ after a short while...]
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge1: PHY read timed out
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge1: PHY read timed out
 bge1: PHY read timed out
 [scrolling quickly....]
 ..
 ..
 # ifconfig bge0 down
 bge0: PHY read timed out
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x468, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x2c00, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x2000, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x3400, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x2400, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x2800, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x3000, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x1400, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x1800, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0xc00, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x4800, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x1000, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x6400, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x1c00, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x3c00, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x4c00, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x3800, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x4400, bit 0x00000002
 bge0: block failed to stop: reg 0x4000, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: PHY read timed out
 bge1: PHY read timed out
 [now only bge1 messages scolling quickly....]
 ..
 ..
 # ifconfig bge1 down
 bge1: PHY read timed out
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x468, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x2c00, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x2000, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x3400, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x2400, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x2800, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x3000, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x1400, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x1800, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0xc00, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x4800, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x1000, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x6400, bit 0x00000002
 bge1: block failed to stop: reg 0x1c00, bit 0x00000002
 
 [ all is quiet ]
 
 # ifconfig bge0
 bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
           
 capabilities=3f00<IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM 
 _Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
           
 enabled=3f00<IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,U 
 DP4CSUM_Tx>
          address: 00:e0:81:30:d6:7c
          media: Ethernet autoselect
          status: no carrier
          inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe30:d67c%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
 # ifconfig bge1
 bge1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
           
 capabilities=3f00<IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM 
 _Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
           
 enabled=3f00<IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,U 
 DP4CSUM_Tx>
          address: 00:e0:81:30:d6:7d
          media: Ethernet autoselect
          status: no carrier
          inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe30:d67d%bge1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4