[OpenIndiana-discuss] Quadro 600 No Joy - Solved

[Albert Lee]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 10:59 -0500, Gary Gendel wrote:
>> Jon,
>>
>> This particular v20z refuses to update to the latest firmware, but bge
>> works properly for OpenSolaris up to and including 134b so it looks to
>> be a change to the bge driver found in Oi 147 or 148.  There is another
>> issue where apcupsd wouldn't run because of some change in libusb as
>> well.  Recompling from source wouldn't fix that problem either.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is my home router, file, web, mail, et. al. server
>> so I can't do extended experimentation and debugging.
>>
>> That a second person saw a CPU issue with the bge driver makes me (want)
>> to believe something changed in the driver source to cause this.
>

Yes, the driver changed between 147 and 148 to support additional
Broadcom chips, but part of the changes caused regressions. Your
symptoms have the same root cause as a known issue:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/544 - the workaround is also shown
there.

-Albert