Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 12:52:13 -0400 From: Jason Hensler <omegadraconis@gmail.com> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Firebox M270 and the Intel X553 MDIO Message-ID: <2854f8ea-0827-4f3a-8269-1cca0cd8a201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A84C1064-B12E-4E2A-957C-0E3452F30DFA@gmail.com> References: <9111F7D4-7362-4C84-B019-6B3E700DABF6@gmail.com> <C5C43AEE-AD8A-46B4-99CA-EC6EBD618E08@gmail.com> <CA%2Bb0zg_djE7FiMoR%2BjDxLGm0zrP514PVGYhrhEzcnp8RhCDSRw@mail.gmail.com> <A84C1064-B12E-4E2A-957C-0E3452F30DFA@gmail.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AO23IMBYeIKUL9oSX56jt4qw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello Peter, Sorry to dig up the old thread, not sure about the mailing list rules/etiquette on old threads. I'm looking to get a silicom i3000 up and running with FreeBSD (Opnsense). It has similar specs to the M270 with two X553 cpu ports and a Marvell 88E6190X switch. I found this thread and tried the patches in that you've linked to and also added the patch for the ixgbe_[write|read]_phy_reg_mdi_22, however I'm still not getting a /dev/mdio device. Did you make any progress on this one? Do you have any suggestions? At-least one user was able to get pf+ on it and /dev/mdio did appear. Thanks, Jason Hensler On 12/16/23 4:57 AM, Peter A Barlow wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Thank you. I’ve spent a few days researching this quite extensively. > I’m aware of this. It seems that some mods have been incorporated into > pf+ (closed source) probably in the ixgbe drivers to facilitate the > MDIO bus and detection of the Marvell switch. However, like some other > M270 owners, I don’t wish to invest in pf+ and would like to figure > out just how much work is involved in modifying the drivers to work > with the M270 unit under FreeBSD, or OPNsense. > > Yesterday I stumbled upon Intel’s DPDK project. If you look at their > mail archive you’ll find a number of mods to the X550 driver to > address this issue. I’m currently looking at this for clues. > [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/ixgbe : backplane port MDIO support > <https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html>; > mail-archive.com <https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html>; > apple-touch-icon-114x114.png > <https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html>; > > <https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html>; > > Peter > > >> On 15 Dec 2023, at 18:56, Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:51 AM Peter A Barlow >> <peterbarlow2000@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I’m looking at running FreeBSD on an old Firebox M270. >> It has a C3558 CPU with integrated X553 LAN controller which >> connects over MDIO to a Marvell 88E6190 switch. >> Out of the box the X553 backplane is detected but there doesn’t >> seem to be any attempt at probing the MDIO for connected devices. >> >> I’ve played around with the Intel ixgbe drivers, compiling the >> kernel etc to see if I can figure it out but I’m really >> struggling to understand what needs to be done. >> >> At this stage I’m reaching out to the community to see if anyone >> can clarify something for me….are there some fundamental changes >> or additions required to the drivers to make this work, or is it >> something that should work already but needs some options >> enabling or configurations tweaking. I’m reluctant to put more >> time into trawling through the code if it’s a ‘simple’ >> configuration issue. >> >> Any pointers would be very welcome. >> Thank you. >> >> >> I found this thread: >> https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154974/pfsense-on-watchguard-m270/112 >> >> I think the TL;DR is that you need pfSense Plus since the required >> software to get it to work isn't publicly available. >> >> - Eric > --------------AO23IMBYeIKUL9oSX56jt4qw Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Hello Peter,</p> <p>Sorry to dig up the old thread, not sure about the mailing list rules/etiquette on old threads.</p> <p>I'm looking to get a silicom i3000 up and running with FreeBSD (Opnsense). It has similar specs to the M270 with two X553 cpu ports and a Marvell 88E6190X switch. I found this thread and tried the patches in that you've linked to and also added the patch for the ixgbe_[write|read]_phy_reg_mdi_22, however I'm still not getting a /dev/mdio device. Did you make any progress on this one? Do you have any suggestions?<br> </p> <p>At-least one user was able to get pf+ on it and /dev/mdio did appear.<br> </p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Jason Hensler<br> </p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/23 4:57 AM, Peter A Barlow wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Hi Eric, <div><br> </div> <div>Thank you. I’ve spent a few days researching this quite extensively. I’m aware of this. It seems that some mods have been incorporated into pf+ (closed source) probably in the ixgbe drivers to facilitate the MDIO bus and detection of the Marvell switch. However, like some other M270 owners, I don’t wish to invest in pf+ and would like to figure out just how much work is involved in modifying the drivers to work with the M270 unit under FreeBSD, or OPNsense.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Yesterday I stumbled upon Intel’s DPDK project. If you look at their mail archive you’ll find a number of mods to the X550 driver to address this issue. I’m currently looking at this for clues.</div> <div> <div style="display: block;"> <div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300" moz-do-not-send="true"> <table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"> <tbody> <tr> <td vertical-align="center"> <table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"> <div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"> <div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false" moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] net/ixgbe : backplane port MDIO support</font></a></div> <div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false" moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">mail-archive.com</font></a></div> </div> </td> <td style="padding:6px 12px 6px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIconItem" width="36"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@dpdk.org/msg88515.html" draggable="false" moz-do-not-send="true"><img style="pointer-events:none !important;display:inline-block;width:36px;height:36px;border-radius:3px;" width="36" height="36" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIcon" alt="apple-touch-icon-114x114.png" src="mailbox:///home/jason/Downloads/004343.eml?number=0&header=quotebody&part=1.2.2&filename=apple-touch-icon-114x114.png" moz-do-not-send="true"></a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </a></div> </div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Peter</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div>On 15 Dec 2023, at 18:56, Eric Joyner <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:erj@freebsd.org"><erj@freebsd.org></a> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 12:51 AM Peter A Barlow <<a href="mailto:peterbarlow2000@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">peterbarlow2000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’m looking at running FreeBSD on an old Firebox M270. <br> It has a C3558 CPU with integrated X553 LAN controller which connects over MDIO to a Marvell 88E6190 switch.<br> Out of the box the X553 backplane is detected but there doesn’t seem to be any attempt at probing the MDIO for connected devices.<br> <br> I’ve played around with the Intel ixgbe drivers, compiling the kernel etc to see if I can figure it out but I’m really struggling to understand what needs to be done.<br> <br> At this stage I’m reaching out to the community to see if anyone can clarify something for me….are there some fundamental changes or additions required to the drivers to make this work, or is it something that should work already but needs some options enabling or configurations tweaking. I’m reluctant to put more time into trawling through the code if it’s a ‘simple’ configuration issue.<br> <br> Any pointers would be very welcome.<br> Thank you.<br> </blockquote> <div><br> </div> I found this thread: <a href="https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154974/pfsense-on-watchguard-m270/112" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://forum.netgate.com/topic/154974/pfsense-on-watchguard-m270/112</a>; <div><br> </div> <div>I think the TL;DR is that you need pfSense Plus since the required software to get it to work isn't publicly available.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>- Eric </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------AO23IMBYeIKUL9oSX56jt4qw--
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