Subject: Re: dma read modebits on Broadcom NICs
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/06/2006 18:30:59
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:55:39AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Michael van Elst wrote:
> >netbsd@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) writes:
> >
> >>bge0: pcistate failed to revert
> >
> >That's an error. The code waits for reset completition by polling
> >the pcistate register. That check times out after about 10 milliseconds.
> >
> >Either the timeout is too short for your hardware or the check
> >is simply invalid.
> 
> As I've not seen any problems, hopefully it's that the check is invalid. I 
> don't think I've seen any bge hardware where it _doesn't_ give that error.

I don't see this error on a Thinkpad T43p with NetBSD3.1.


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