> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:30:59 +0100
> Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> Nor I on a T42 with -current, over the last two years.  OTOH, I'm only
> running on 100BaseT, not GigeE.
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
Hi!

We have three (3) machines here all with gigabit Broadcom cards. They all
display the same message "dma read modebits". All of which are HP Proliant
servers with embedded (bge) NICs.

AFAIK, we have no problems yet with the card. I just dont understand why
there's a screen output on models not beyond 575x.

I have no idea if its a harmless verbose output or something worth
investigating.

Regards,

Joseph