Bug 94833 - [bge] [patch] Make BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG a system tunable
Summary: [bge] [patch] Make BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG a system tunable
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: 6.1-PRERELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2006-03-22 16:50 UTC by Devon H. O'Dell
Modified: 2006-04-25 17:03 UTC (History)
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Description Devon H. O'Dell 2006-03-22 16:50:15 UTC 
As is apparent by the commit logs surrounding BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG, bge(4) is weird,
especially on Intel / IBM blade platforms. This patch makes the BGE_FAKE_AUTONEG a
tunable. This patch allows one to change the behavior of the driver pre-boot.

Originally, this was not useful due to issues with the switch packaged with the 
blade; however, the new switch package for the blade doesn't have the same 
quirkiness factor, so it should be OK.

NOTE: This patch was made for DragonFly BSD by 
Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> -- please credit him for the patch.

Fix: Original patch: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/bge_fake.diff

Patch against -HEAD: http://www.sitetronics.com/~dodell/bge_fix.patch

-- begin patch --
How-To-Repeat: Boot a SBX82 blade with GENERIC and try to access the network. Fail miserably.
Comment 1 Michael Reifenberger freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-04-25 17:02:05 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed