Re: port-amd64/47782 - ifconfig SIOCSIFMEDIA error with bge

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On 5/1/13 10:51 PM, STEPHEN JONES wrote:
> On May 1, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Masanobu SAITOH wrote:
>
>
> > Could you show me the full dmesg of the machine with BGE_DEBUG option?
> Masa has clarified this as an issue specific the IPMI for the onboard devices 
> on the
> H8SSL (SuperMicro) and likely other boards.  I saw this behavior in 5.x testing 
> as well,
> but it looks like it has been addressed in -current.  Running 6.99.19 on the 
> same host
> showed the bge driver to be robust.  If possible, it would be great to have the 
> -current
> bge code, if it is not too extensive of a change, in the pending release of 6.1.

This might prove very tricky to do; 6.1_RC4 was just released, and 6.1 
proper should be out within two weeks.  *Possibly* if this is a small, 
non-risky change.  (Luckily, I have some bge(4) boxes to do a little 
testing on)

Otherwise, there's always 6.2!

+j